Technically-informed person

Japanese: 技術的知識人 - ぎじゅつてきちしきじん
Technically-informed person

… However, in today's advanced industrial society, where the scientization of politics, the control of organizations, and the industrialization of culture have progressed remarkably, and where interest in technical knowledge has grown abnormally, people who live by intelligence cannot be excluded from the field of intellectual issues. Recently, Alvin Gouldner has distinguished between the holders of these two types of knowledge as "technical intelligentsia" and "humanist intellectuals," and argues that both of them have come to constitute a new class, the "cultural bourgeoisie," bound together by the ideology of "cultural capital" and professionalism. Whether one agrees with this theory or not, the dialectical relationship of attraction and repulsion between these two intellectual classes, and the problem of their mutual penetration, must never be overlooked. …

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "technical intellectuals" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… しかし,政治の科学化,組織の管理化,文化の産業化が著しく進展し,〈技術的認識関心〉が異常に肥大している現代の先進産業社会では,intelligenceによって生きる人間を知識人問題の領域から除去するわけにはいかない。最近,グールドナーAlvin Gouldnerは,この二つの知識の保持者を〈技術的知識人technical intelligentsia〉と〈人文的知識人humanist intellectuals〉に区別したうえで,両者がともに〈文化資本〉とプロフェッショナリズムのイデオロギーによって結ばれた新しい階級,つまり〈文化的ブルジョアジー〉を構成するにいたっていると主張している。この説に賛成しようとすまいと,これら二つの知識階層の間の牽引・反発の弁証法関係,および相互浸透の問題は絶対に看過されてはならない。…

※「技術的知識人」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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