Rethinking science, technology, and social change
Title:
Rethinking science, technology, and social change
Author:
Schroeder, Ralph.
ISBN:
9780804755887
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2007.
Physical Description:
ix, 179 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
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?
Electronic Access:
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0716/2007015603.htmlContributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2007015603-b.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2007015603-d.html