Knowledge production now structures social order as labor once did

Evidence

The transformation that we witness in our time echoes these historical observations as the division of learning follows the same migratory path from the economic to the social domain once traveled by the division of labor. Now the division of learning “passes far beyond purely economic interests,” for it establishes the basis for our social order and its moral content. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 582

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘division of learning’ as the core defining framework of the chapter, patterned on Durkheim’s division of labor.
• DEEPTHINKING: The transposition of a century-old sociological law from labor to learning as the new organizing principle of social order is the chapter’s central analytic move.
• XREF: connects to: The digital era shifts society’s axis from division of labor to division of learning — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 600; Information now functions as society’s organizing principle, replacing labor — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 583; New social knowledge alters the social world rather than merely describing it — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 363 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• New social knowledge alters the social world rather than merely describing it #expands (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 363
• Social knowledge alters its subject, unlike natural-science observation #expands (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 116
• The division of learning in society is the critical axis of social order #corroborates (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 69
• Unaccountable abstract social knowledge functionally serves data-colonialist capitalism. #qualifies (0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 453
• Postmodern mental fragmentation internalizes social division of labor into cognition itself #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 789
• African knowledge production happened through movement and labor rather than sealed laboratories #qualifies (0.72) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1190
• Logical categories mirror social hierarchy and division of labor, not solidarity #corroborates (0.72) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 43