The production, consumption and dissemination of information has also changed significantly, especially due to the change in communication technologies. In this sense, the relationship of the individuals of the post-modern era with knowledge has also undergone a significant transformation. In this context, the aim of the course is to deal with the importance attributed to knowledge in the changing and transforming social structure, the search for knowledge, the commercialization of knowledge from a sociological perspective. Again in this direction, the issue of intellectualism in the 21st century world will be discussed on a historical and sociological basis, based on the approaches of various thinkers.

Characteristics of 21st Century society; Changing information and communication technologies; Understanding of knowledge in modern and post-modern society; Searching for information in digital society; The tendency towards confirmatory information; Information production-consumption and relativity debate in the digital society; Intellectual-intelligentsia; Antonio Gramsci:- Pierre Bourdieu- Michel Foucault: Intellectual criticism; Julien Benda - Ali Şeriati - Cemil Meriç: Intellectual; Frank Furedi: Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?; The elitism and opposition of elitism: Exaltation of popular knowledge and commercialization; Disgracing of knowledge: simplifying and banalization; Glorify the ordinariness-culture of adulation-infantilise.