Technology Culture And Development

Author : James P. Scanlan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315487519

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Technology, Culture and Development by James P. Scanlan Pdf

Although scholars have devoted much attention to the impact of technology on society, they have tended to slight the question of how technology is affected by social systems. The authors of this volume take precisely this approach in their examination of the "Soviet model" of development. The book surveys the history and current state of science and technology in the USSR and its former satellites. It then looks at the economic environment for technological innovation and examines the impact of the "energy shock" in the transitional economies of the region. Finally, it discusses the ecological devastation of the USSR and Eastern Europe, its connection with the "Soviet model" and the prospects for remediation. The central argument of the book is that the cultural and social factors and the legacy of the Soviet model will inevitable figure in the reconstruction of the East.

Author : Arnold Pacey
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1985-09-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0262660563

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The Culture of Technology by Arnold Pacey Pdf

The Culture of Technology examines our often conflicting attitudes toward nuclear weapons, biological technologies, pollution, Third World development, automation, social medicine, and industrial decline. It disputes the common idea that technology is "value-free" and shows that its development and use are conditioned by many factors-political and cultural as well as economic and scientific. Many examples from a variety of cultures are presented. These range from the impact of snowmobiles in North America to the use of water pumps in rural India, and from homemade toys in Africa to electricity generation in Britain-all showing how the complex interaction of many influences in every community affects technological practice. Arnold Pacey, who lives near Oxford, England, has a degree in physics and has lectured on both the history of technology and technology policy, with a particular focus on the development of technologies appropriate to Third World needs. He is the author of The Maze of Ingenuity (MIT Press paperback).

Author : George McClelland Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Technology and civilization
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041334363

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Traditional Cultures, and the Impact of Technological Change by George McClelland Foster Pdf

Author : Susanne Schech,Jane Haggis
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0631209506

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Culture and Development by Susanne Schech,Jane Haggis Pdf

This book introduces students to new ways of thinking about development. It integrates the recent scholarship of cultural studies within the existing frameworks of development studies, which have primarily focused on issues of political economy and structural transformation.

Author : Christopher Farrands,Michael Talalay,Roger Tooze
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134765621

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Technology, Culture and Competitiveness by Christopher Farrands,Michael Talalay,Roger Tooze Pdf

The first volume in a major new series, this book will be an essential read for all those who need to deal with the causes and consequences of rapid technological change in an increasingly globalized world, whether they be government policy-makers, managers of multi-national corporations, commentators on the international scene or specialists in and students of international politics, economics and business studies. The authors discuss three related areas: * How do we think about technology and international relations/international political economy? How does technology relate to competitiveness? How does it inlfuence our culture and how is it influenced by it? * In what sense is technology a fundamental component of national competitive advantage and what ought national, local and corporate policy to be in the light of this? * What is the relationship between technological innovation and global political and economic change? Technology is discussed not just in an instrumental sense - as a tool of power and an object of policy - but equally in a transcendental sense - as a key to shaping and structuring how we understand and interpret reality. The final section of the book presents case studies of three core sectors of the world political economy, finance , aviation and automobiles.

Author : Erik Baark,Andrew Jamison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1986-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349081172

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Technological Development in China, India and Japan by Erik Baark,Andrew Jamison Pdf

Author : Karol Jan Borowiecki,Neil Forbes,Antonella Fresa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319295442

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Cultural Heritage in a Changing World by Karol Jan Borowiecki,Neil Forbes,Antonella Fresa Pdf

The central purpose of this collection of essays is to make a creative addition to the debates surrounding the cultural heritage domain. In the 21st century the world faces epochal changes which affect every part of society, including the arenas in which cultural heritage is made, held, collected, curated, exhibited, or simply exists. The book is about these changes; about the decentring of culture and cultural heritage away from institutional structures towards the individual; about the questions which the advent of digital technologies is demanding that we ask and answer in relation to how we understand, collect and make available Europe’s cultural heritage. Cultural heritage has enormous potential in terms of its contribution to improving the quality of life for people, understanding the past, assisting territorial cohesion, driving economic growth, opening up employment opportunities and supporting wider developments such as improvements in education and in artistic careers. Given that spectrum of possible benefits to society, the range of studies that follow here are intended to be a resource and stimulus to help inform not just professionals in the sector but all those with an interest in cultural heritage.

Author : Thomas P. Hughes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780226120669

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Human-Built World by Thomas P. Hughes Pdf

To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western thinkers who not only understood its multifaceted character but who also explored its creative potential. Hughes draws on an enormous range of literature, art, and architecture to explore what technology has brought to society and culture, and to explain how we might begin to develop an "ecotechnology" that works with, not against, ecological systems. From the "Creator" model of development of the sixteenth century to the "big science" of the 1940s and 1950s to the architecture of Frank Gehry, Hughes nimbly charts the myriad ways that technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different eras and the promises and problems it has offered. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, optimistically hoped that technology could be combined with nature to create an Edenic environment; Lewis Mumford, two centuries later, warned of the increasing mechanization of American life. Such divergent views, Hughes shows, have existed side by side, demonstrating the fundamental idea that "in its variety, technology is full of contradictions, laden with human folly, saved by occasional benign deeds, and rich with unintended consequences." In Human-Built World, he offers the highly engaging history of these contradictions, follies, and consequences, a history that resurrects technology, rightfully, as more than gadgetry; it is in fact no less than an embodiment of human values.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9531540187

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The Cultural Dimension of Scientific and Technological Development by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michèle Martin
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0773508309

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"Hello, Central?" by Michèle Martin Pdf

In most studies of technological development, women are portrayed as passive victims of new technology. In contrast, in "Hello, Central?" Michèle Martin reveals the significant impact women had on the development of telephone systems.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264009912

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Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Culture and Local Development by OECD Pdf

This publication highlights the impact of culture on local economies and the methodological issues related to its identification.

Author : Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317562818

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Economics, Culture and Development by Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin Pdf

This book examines the treatment of culture and development in the discipline of economics, thereby filling a conspicuous gap in current literature. Economics has come a long way to join the ‘cultural turn’ that has swept the humanities and social sciences in the last half century. This volume identifies some of the issues that major philosophies of economics must address to better grasp the cultural complexity of contemporary economies. This book is an extensive survey of the place of culture and development in four theoretical economic perspectives—Neoclassical, Marxian, Institutionalist, and Feminist. Organized in nine chapters with three appendices and a compendium of over 50 interpretations of culture by economists, this book covers vast grounds from classical political economy to contemporary economic thought. The literatures reviewed include original and new institutionalism, cultural economics, postmodern Marxism, economic feminism, and the current culture and development discourse on subjects such as economic growth in East Asia, businesswomen entrepreneurs in West Africa, and comparative development in different parts of Europe. Zein-Elabdin carries the project further by borrowing some of the insights from postcolonial theory to call for a more profound rethinking of the place of culture and of currently devalued cultures in economic theory. This book is of great interest for those who study Economic development, International relations, feminist economics, and Economic geography

Author : Michael Cole
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135065775

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Culture, Technology, and Development by Michael Cole Pdf

This special issue provides a set of articles written by former colleagues and friends of Jan Hawkins--a member of a talented group of graduate students who participated in the weekly seminars held in what was then referred to as the Institute for Comparative Development during the mid-1970s. The single theme that brought together this diverse group of scholars and that dominates the papers in this issue is the belief in the value of human diversity not only as a resource for understanding human nature, but as a necessity for continued human development. The articles and commentaries testify that the ideas, practices, and values that Jan Hawkins helped to create in the mid-1970s are now found around the world.

Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956791910

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Culture, Indigenous Knowledge and Development in Africa by Mawere, Munyaradzi Pdf

The continent of Africa is richly endowed with diverse cultures, a body of indigenous knowledge and technologies. These bodies of knowledge and technologies that are indeed embodied in the diverse African cultures are as old as humankind. From time immemorial, they have been used to solve socio-economic, political, health, and environmental problems, and to respond to the development needs of Africans. Yet with the advent of colonialism and Western scientism, these African cultures, knowledges, and technologies have been despised and relegated to the periphery, to the detriment of the self-reliant development of Africans. It is out of this observation and realisation that this book was born. The book is an exploration of the practical problems resulting from Africa's encounter with Euro-colonialism, a reflection of the nexus between indigenous knowledge, culture, and development, and indeed a call for the revival and reinstitution of indigenous knowledge, not as a challenge to Western science, but a complementary form of knowledge necessary to steer and promote sustainable development in Africa and beyond. This is a valuable book for policy makers, institutional planners, practitioners and students of social anthropology, education, political and social ecology, and development, African and heritage studies.

Author : Thomas P. Hughes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226359336

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Human-Built World by Thomas P. Hughes Pdf

To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western thinkers who not only understood its multifaceted character but who also explored its creative potential. Hughes draws on an enormous range of literature, art, and architecture to explore what technology has brought to society and culture, and to explain how we might begin to develop an "ecotechnology" that works with, not against, ecological systems. From the "Creator" model of development of the sixteenth century to the "big science" of the 1940s and 1950s to the architecture of Frank Gehry, Hughes nimbly charts the myriad ways that technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different eras and the promises and problems it has offered. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, optimistically hoped that technology could be combined with nature to create an Edenic environment; Lewis Mumford, two centuries later, warned of the increasing mechanization of American life. Such divergent views, Hughes shows, have existed side by side, demonstrating the fundamental idea that "in its variety, technology is full of contradictions, laden with human folly, saved by occasional benign deeds, and rich with unintended consequences." In Human-Built World, he offers the highly engaging history of these contradictions, follies, and consequences, a history that resurrects technology, rightfully, as more than gadgetry; it is in fact no less than an embodiment of human values.