Rethinking science, technology, and social change
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Stanford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Stanford, Calif. |
Publication Dates: | c2007. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | ix, 179 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780804755887 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804755884 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | N05 |
CLC: | N05 |
Call Number: | N05/S381 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-169) and index. Why rethinking? -- The social organization of scientific and technological advance -- Big science and large technological systems -- Science, technology, and economic change -- The mediation of politics as a large technological system -- The consumption of technology in everyday life -- Who's afraid of scientific objectivity and technological determinism? |