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Author : Deborah G. Johnson,Jameson M. Wetmore
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262303385

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Technology and Society by Deborah G. Johnson,Jameson M. Wetmore Pdf

An anthology of writings by thinkers ranging from Freeman Dyson to Bruno Latour that focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values and how these may affect the future. Technological change does not happen in a vacuum; decisions about which technologies to develop, fund, market, and use engage ideas about values as well as calculations of costs and benefits. This anthology focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values. It offers writings by authorities as varied as Freeman Dyson, Laurence Lessig, Bruno Latour, and Judy Wajcman that will introduce readers to recent thinking about technology and provide them with conceptual tools, a theoretical framework, and knowledge to help understand how technology shapes society and how society shapes technology. It offers readers a new perspective on such current issues as globalization, the balance between security and privacy, environmental justice, and poverty in the developing world. The careful ordering of the selections and the editors' introductions give Technology and Society a coherence and flow that is unusual in anthologies. The book is suitable for use in undergraduate courses in STS and other disciplines. The selections begin with predictions of the future that range from forecasts of technological utopia to cautionary tales. These are followed by writings that explore the complexity of sociotechnical systems, presenting a picture of how technology and society work in step, shaping and being shaped by one another. Finally, the book goes back to considerations of the future, discussing twenty-first-century challenges that include nanotechnology, the role of citizens in technological decisions, and the technologies of human enhancement.

Author : Alex Khasnabish
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773635385

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Making Sense of Society by Alex Khasnabish Pdf

Grounded in the sister disciplines of sociology and anthropology, this textbook is an accessible and critical introduction to contemporary social research. Alex Khasnabish eschews the common disciplinary silos in favour of an integrated approach to understanding and practising critical social research. Situated in the North American context, the text draws on cross-cultural examples to give readers a clear sense of the diversity in human social relations. It is organized thematically in a way that introduces readers to the core areas of social research and social organization and takes an unapologetically radical approach in identifying the relations of oppression and exploitation that give rise to what most corporate textbooks euphemistically identify as “social problems.” Focusing on key dynamics and processes at the heart of so many contemporary issues and public conversations, this text highlights the ways in which critical social research can contribute to exploring, understanding and forging alternatives to an increasingly bankrupt, violent, unstable and unjust status quo.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781605200217

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Justice in War-time by Bertrand Russell Pdf

Justice in War-time, first published in 1916, is a collection of Bertrand Russell's essays on war. He claims that humans have an instinct toward war, but that this instinct needs to be sufficiently roused in order to spark conflict. He analyzes British foreign policy during the ten years before the First World War in an effort to discover how England may have contributed to the problem. The essays included in this volume are: . "An Appeal to the Intellectuals of Europe" . "The Ethics of War" . "War and Non-Resistance" . "Why Nations Love War" . "The Future of Anglo-German Rivalry" . "Is Permanent Peace Possible?" . "The Danger to Civilization" . "The Entente Policy, 1904-1915. A Reply to Professor Gilbert Murray" British philosopher and mathematician BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM RUSSELL (1872-1970) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Among his many works are Why I Am Not a Christian (1927), Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), and My Philosophical Development (1959).

Author : Bruce J. MacFadden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108421720

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Broader Impacts of Science on Society by Bruce J. MacFadden Pdf

Invaluable guidance on how scientists can communicate the societal benefits of their work to the public and funding agencies. This will help scientists submit proposals to the US National Science Foundation and other funding agencies with a 'Broader Impacts' section, as well as helping to develop successful wider outreach activities.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317230014

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The Impact of Science on Society by Bertrand Russell Pdf

Many of the revolutionary effects of science and technology are obvious enough. Bertrand Russell saw in the 1950s that there are also many negative aspects of scientific innovation. Insightful and controversial in equal measure, Russell argues that science offers the world greater well-being than it has ever known, on the condition that prosperity is dispersed; power is diffused by means of a single, world government; birth rates do not become too high; and war is abolished. Russell acknowledges that is a tall order, but remains essentially optimistic. He imagines mankind in a 'race between human skill as to means and human folly as to ends', but believes human society will ultimately choose the path of reason. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by Tim Sluckin.

Author : Peter Wagner,Björn Wittrock,Richard P. Whitley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780585291741

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Discourses on Society by Peter Wagner,Björn Wittrock,Richard P. Whitley Pdf

This book, which represents probably the most comprehensive discussion of the emergence of modem social science yet produced, is of far more than merely historical interest. The contributors set out to rewrite the history of the social sciences and to show the limitations of conventional conceptions of their development. These tasks they accomplish with great success and much distinction. Yet in so doing they contribute in a direct way to our understanding of the relation between social analysis and the nature of human societies today. The brilliant and distinctive perspective of the papers in this collection is to demonstrate, with many specific examples, that social science and modem institutions have helped shape each other in mutual interplay. Modem systems are in some part con stituted through the reflexive incorporation of developing social science knowledge; on the other hand, the social sciences organise themselves in terms of a continuing reflection upon the evolution of those systems. Such a perspective, as Wagner and Wittrock in particular make clear, does not in any way either impugn the status of knowledge claims made within social science or destroy the independent reality of social institutions. The book questions the notion that the institutionalising of the social sciences can be understood as a process of their increasing autonomy from extemal social connections. 'Autonomy' forms a mode of legitima tion and a basis of power rather than a distinctive phenomenon as such.

Author : Sophia Krzys Acord,Kevin S. Jones,Marsha Bryant,Debra Dauphin-Jones,Pamela Hupp
Publisher : Library Press at Uf
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1944455124

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Impact of Materials on Society by Sophia Krzys Acord,Kevin S. Jones,Marsha Bryant,Debra Dauphin-Jones,Pamela Hupp Pdf

This textbook supports the Impact of Materials on Society course and teaching materials, developed with the Materials Research Society. The textbook, which is freely available online (https: //ufl.pb.unizin.org/imos/) and for purchase in print-on-demand format, offers an exploration into materials and the relationship with technologies and social structures. The textbook was developed by an interdisciplinary team from Engineering and Liberal Arts and Sciences, including anthropologists, sociologists, historians, media studies experts, Classicists, and more. Chapters include coverage of clay, ceramics, concrete, copper and bronze, gold and silver, steel, aluminum, polymers, and writing materials. Supplemental materials, including lecture slides, assignments, and exams, may be accessed in a companion volume: https: //ufl.pb.unizin.org/imosinstructorguide

Author : Anthony Elliott,Bryan S. Turner
Publisher : Polity
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745648415

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On Society by Anthony Elliott,Bryan S. Turner Pdf

An erudite and original book that gets to grips with a central bone of contention in the social sciences and beyond: what do we mean by 'society'?

Author : Guy Debord
Publisher : Bread and Circuses Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781617508301

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Society Of The Spectacle by Guy Debord Pdf

The Das Kapital of the 20th century,Society of the Spectacle is an essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's, in particular the May 1968 uprisings in France, up to the present day, with global capitalism seemingly staggering around in it’s Zombie end-phase, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century. This ‘Red and Black’ translation from 1977 is Introduced by Notting Hill armchair insurrectionary Tom Vague with a galloping time line and pop-situ verve, and given a more analytical over view by young upstart thinker Sam Cooper.

Author : Ary S. Jr.
Publisher : Ary S. Jr.
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9798224875467

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Artificial Intelligence The Impact on Society by Ary S. Jr. Pdf

This book provides an in-depth look at the revolutionary advances taking place in the field of artificial intelligence and a thoughtful exploration of their vast implications. It traces the origins and early history of AI, from the pioneering work of figures like Turing and von Neumann to the recent explosion driven by deeper neural networks and bigger data.

Author : Peilin LI,Guangjin CHEN,Yi ZHANG
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004418622

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Chinese Research Perspectives on Society, Volume 6 by Peilin LI,Guangjin CHEN,Yi ZHANG Pdf

Front Matter --Copyright page --Figures and Tables --Expanding the Middle-Income Groups, Building a Middle Class-Dominated Modern Society--Analysis and Forecast of China's Social Conditions during the Period 2016-2017 /Research Group for Social Situation Analysis and Forecast, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Guangjin Chen --Report on the Income and Spending of China's Urban and Rural Residents in 2016 /Qingzhe Lyu --The Impact of the Adjustment of China's Industrial Structure on the Employment of College Graduates in 2016 /Rong Mo and Xinyu Wang --Changes in the Income Gap of Chinese Residents in 2016 /Yiyong Yang and Zhenhe Chi --Continual Improvements in China's Social Security System in 2016 /Fayun Wang and Wei Wu --Report on Education Reform and Development in China in 2016 /Lei Fan --Report on the Development of China's Health Care in 2016 /Lijie Fang --Research Report on the New Social Class in China's Megacities--Based on Surveys in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou /Haidong Zhang, Chengchen Yang and Siqi Lai --Changes in the Living Conditions of the Elderly in Urban and Rural Areas and Future Trends--Based on Data Analysis of Four National Surveys during the Period 2000-2015 /Haitao Wang, Yu Fang and Zheng Ouyang --Leisure, Class Status and Reading for Pleasure /Yi Zhang --Report on the Usage of the Internet and Social Networks in China in 2016 /Di Zhu, Feng Tian and Xiaobing Wang --Research Report on the Chinese Public's Knowledge of and Attitudes towards Genetic Modification /Guangxi He, Miao Liao, Changhui Shi, Wenxia Zhang and Yandong Zhao --Research Report on the Values and Belief System of Young Employees of Chinese Enterprises /Chen Chen --Report on the Analysis of Internet Public Opinion in China in 2016 /Huaxin Zhu, Yufeng Pan and Xiaoran Chen --Progress Report on China's Rural Land Property Rights Reform in 2016 /Qiang Gao --Report on the Situation of Food and Drug Safety in China in 2016 /Jie Luo and Hao Zhang --The State of and New Issues in China's Environmental Protection in 2016 /Feng Jia, Ke Yang, Huicong Zhang, Shuo Tian, Jingyi Huang, Zijiao Zhang and Liantong Zhou --Report on the Analysis of the Situation of Public Safety in China in 2016 /Yandong Zhou and Zhigang Gong --The Status of Workers in the Supply-Side Structural Reform in 2016 /Jian Qiao --Report on Women's Development in China in 2016 /Yunzhu Jia --Statistical Overview of China's Social Development (2016) /Liping Zhang --Back Matter --Index.

Author : Robert Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1804
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : IND:30000097262251

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Modern Infidelity Considered, with Respect to Its Influence on Society by Robert Hall Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004505391

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Chinese Research Perspectives on Society, Volume 8 by Anonim Pdf

This volume reviews China’s social conditions in 2018. The articles cover income and consumption, employment, social security, welfare assistance, education, public safety, social and political participation and others. University students and the urban poor received special attention.

Author : Peilin LI,Guangjin CHEN,Yi ZHANG
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004375819

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Chinese Research Perspectives on Society, Volume 4 by Peilin LI,Guangjin CHEN,Yi ZHANG Pdf

This volume gives an overview of China’s social conditions. Issues discussed include trends in the job market, income, consumption, social security, internet development and others. Groups such as urban residents, migrant workers and university students and graduates receive special attention.

Author : Lynn McDonald
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780889207073

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Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature by Lynn McDonald Pdf

Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, Volume 5 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is the main source of Nightingale’s work on the methodology of social science and her views on social reform. Here we see how she took her “call to service” into practice: by first learning how the laws of God’s world operate, one can then determine how to intervene for good. There is material on medical statistics, the census, pauperism and Poor Law reform, the need for income security measures and better housing, on crime, gender and the family. Her comments on a new edition of The Dialogues of Plato are given, with their impact on the revision of the next edition. We see Nightingale’s condemnation of Plato’s “community of wives,” with her stirring approval of love (even outside marriage!), marriage and the family. In this volume also her views on natural science, education and literature are reported. Nightingale was an astute behind-the-scenes political activist. Society and Politics publishes (much of it for the first time) her correspondence with such leading political figures as Queen Victoria, W.E. Gladstone and J.S. Mill. There are notes and essays on public administration and personal observations on various members of royalty, prime ministers and ministers, and Indian viceroys. Nightingale’s support of the vote for women (contrary to much in the secondary literature) is here shown. Correspondence and notes on British general elections from 1834 to 1900 is reported, with letters to and for (Liberal) political candidates and fierce condemnations of Conservatives. Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary.