Science Technology And Social Change Routledge Revivals

Author : Steven Yearley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317629191

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Science, Technology, and Social Change (Routledge Revivals) by Steven Yearley Pdf

First published in 1988, this book provides students with a way to increase their understanding of the role of science and technology in society. Steven Yearley draws on and develops ideas from research in the sociology and politics of science to address, in particular: the nature of scientific knowledge and the authority it commands; the political and economic role of science in the West; the relationship between science, technology, and social change in underdeveloped countries. Examples used range from nineteenth-century brain science to the strategic defence initiative, and from hugely expensive experiments in nuclear physics, to proposals for inexpensive boat-building programmes in the Sudan. Overall, this reissue provides a comprehensive and stimulating account of the role played by science and technology in contemporary social change.

Author : Steven Yearley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317629207

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Science, Technology, and Social Change (Routledge Revivals) by Steven Yearley Pdf

First published in 1988, this book provides students with a way to increase their understanding of the role of science and technology in society. Steven Yearley draws on and develops ideas from research in the sociology and politics of science to address, in particular: the nature of scientific knowledge and the authority it commands; the political and economic role of science in the West; the relationship between science, technology, and social change in underdeveloped countries. Examples used range from nineteenth-century brain science to the strategic defence initiative, and from hugely expensive experiments in nuclear physics, to proposals for inexpensive boat-building programmes in the Sudan. Overall, this reissue provides a comprehensive and stimulating account of the role played by science and technology in contemporary social change.

Author : Ralph Schroeder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015074306708

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Rethinking Science, Technology, and Social Change by Ralph Schroeder Pdf

Rethinking Science, Technology, and Social Change challenges the prevailing notion that science and technology are constructed or socially shaped. The text puts forth a case for technological determinism, based on a realistic and pragmatic account of science and technology, informed by historical comparisons. Schroeder begins by exploring the social organization of scientific and technological advances; the intersecting trajectories of big science and technological systems; and the impact of science and technology on economic change. He goes on to discuss the social implications of technology, including the way that it affects politics and consumption. The book then rethinks traditional theories about the relationship between science, technology, and social change. The argument presented shifts the debate on topics such as the relationship between growth and sustainability, and thus has important policy implications. This book will be of great interest to scholars, scientists, and anyone interested in understanding how science and technology are transforming our world.

Author : Daniel Lee Kleinman,Kelly Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136237157

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Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society by Daniel Lee Kleinman,Kelly Moore Pdf

Over the last decade or so, the field of science and technology studies (STS) has become an intellectually dynamic interdisciplinary arena. Concepts, methods, and theoretical perspectives are being drawn both from long-established and relatively young disciplines. From its origins in philosophical and political debates about the creation and use of scientific knowledge, STS has become a wide and deep space for the consideration of the place of science and technology in the world, past and present. The Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology and Society seeks to capture the dynamism and breadth of the field by presenting work that pushes the reader to think about science and technology and their intersections with social life in new ways. The interdisciplinary contributions by international experts in this handbook are organized around six topic areas: embodiment consuming technoscience digitization environments science as work rules and standards This volume highlights a range of theoretical and empirical approaches to some of the persistent – and new – questions in the field. It will be useful for students and scholars throughout the social sciences and humanities, including in science and technology studies, history, geography, critical race studies, sociology, communications, women’s and gender studies, anthropology, and political science.

Author : Francis R. Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Social Change
ISBN : WISC:89033928904

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Technology and Social Change by Francis R. Allen Pdf

Author : Jairo Lugo-Ocando,An Nguyen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351978460

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Developing News by Jairo Lugo-Ocando,An Nguyen Pdf

Constraints on media reporting -- Conclusion -- 6 Disempowering news: The feminisation of development -- The feminisation of poverty -- "Empowering" women - for less gender justice? -- Gendered news practices -- 7 New technologies for old ideas -- An ICT-driven new economy -- Technology as geopolitics -- Technology as colonial legitimisation -- Technology without politics? -- 8 Malthusianism and news framing of population growth -- Shifting the blame -- Legitimising racism -- Malthusianism returns as the bell curve -- Towards a better news articulation of population issues -- Conclusion: Beyond the North-to-South lecture: Can the news media ever get to the core of development? -- Us-versus-them propaganda -- What is being 'sold' -- What is being missed -- Where to from here? -- References -- Index

Author : Tom B. Bottomore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136923166

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Sociology as Social Criticism (Routledge Revivals) by Tom B. Bottomore Pdf

First published in 1975, this collection of essays embodies a conception of sociological thought as a critical analysis of social theories and doctrines, of social institutions and political regimes, of recent social movements. They deal, in particular, with some conservative versions of sociology and with attempts to develop more radical theories; they extend the author's previous writings on classes, elites and politics; and they analyse some of the problems of socialism in the late twentieth century. There is a close unity of theme througout the book in its critical attempt to formulate new intellectual bases for future radical and egalitarian politics. It is written with that quiet wisdom and impressive command of sources which readers have come to associate with Professor Bottomore's work.

Author : T. B. Bottomore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136968778

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Sociology (Routledge Revivals) by T. B. Bottomore Pdf

First published in 1962, this seminal work is an introduction to sociology in a world context, and a sophisticated guide to the major themes, problems and controversies in contemporary sociology. The book remains unique in its organisation and presentation of sociological ideas and problems, in it s lack of insularity (its wide coverage of diverse types of society and of sociological thought from various cultural traditions), and in its systematic connection of sociology with the broad themes of modern social and political thought.

Author : Keith Dixon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317815501

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The Sociology of Belief (Routledge Revivals) by Keith Dixon Pdf

First published in 1980, this book presents a study of knowledge and the patterns of social and scientific thought. Keith Dixon argues that traditional and contemporary formulations of the sociology of knowledge involve a series of fallacies, and the claim to reduce knowledge to ideology devalues the role of reasoned inquiry. Chapters discuss such areas as the theories of Marx and Mannheim, the sociology of science and of religious belief. With a detailed conclusion analysing the foundations and limits of the sociology of knowledge, this reissue will provide an interesting and useful analysis for students of Sociology.

Author : Robert Fox
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Technological innovations
ISBN : 9783718657926

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Technological Change by Robert Fox Pdf

Technological Change gathers together examples of the best current thinking on methodology and the theoretical perspectives that are increasingly of concern to historians of technology, whilst at the same time presenting other papers which reflect the 'state of the art' in key areas of historical debate. The volume emphasises the need both to establish a common forum for theoretical and empirical research and also to delineate the shared concerns of these two treatments, which are too often reflected as conflicting rather than mutually supportive approaches to the writing of the history of technology.

Author : Thomas F. Glick,Steven Livesey,Faith Wallis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135459390

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Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine by Thomas F. Glick,Steven Livesey,Faith Wallis Pdf

Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine details the whole scope of scientific knowledge in the medieval period in more than 300 A to Z entries. This resource discusses the research, application of knowledge, cultural and technology exchanges, experimentation, and achievements in the many disciplines related to science and technology. Coverage includes inventions, discoveries, concepts, places and fields of study, regions, and significant contributors to various fields of science. There are also entries on South-Central and East Asian science. This reference work provides an examination of medieval scientific tradition as well as an appreciation for the relationship between medieval science and the traditions it supplanted and those that replaced it. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages website.

Author : Steven L. Goldman
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Science
ISBN : 093422305X

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Science, Technology, and Social Progress by Steven L. Goldman Pdf

This collection examines the features of Western culture and of the practices of science and technology that anchor the idea of progress in the face of more than a half century of intellectual criticism.

Author : N. I. Bukharin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 041582513X

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Science at the Cross Roads (Routledge Revivals) by N. I. Bukharin Pdf

The papers given by the Soviet Delegation to the Second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology in London in 1931, headed by N. I. Bukharin, exerted a profound influence on Western historiography of science. Perhaps the most influential contribution was that of Hessen, who made a long and classical statement of Marxist historiography, taking Isaac Newton as his example. The collection, which appeared in Britain at the height of the Depression, fostered an acute social awareness and a heated debate among many working scientists. Accredited by some as "the starting point of a new evaluation of the history of science", the book reflects the huge social and economic divide between Socialism and Capitalism present at the time of publication, and its influence on intellectual culture and scientific advancement.

Author : Harvey Russell Bernard,Pertti J. Pelto
Publisher : Macmillan College
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : WISC:89034002915

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Technology and Social Change by Harvey Russell Bernard,Pertti J. Pelto Pdf

Author : Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt,Jacques Hersh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134578665

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Globalization and Social Change by Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt,Jacques Hersh Pdf

An innovative and forward-looking volume which challenges conventional thinking regarding the inevitability of globalisation. Essential reading for those interested in the development of and the potential alternatives to globalisation.