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The Nature of Technological Knowledge. Are Models of Scientific Change Relevant
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- Book Title
- The Nature of Technological Knowledge. Are Models of Scientific C
- ISBN
- 9789027717160
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
ISBN-10
9027717168
ISBN-13
9789027717160
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1840021
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
VII, 147 Pages
Publication Name
Nature of Technological Knowledge : Are Models of Scientific Change Relevant?
Language
English
Publication Year
1984
Subject
General, History
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Technology & Engineering, Science
Series
Sociology of the Sciences-Monographs
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
31.7 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
83-024642
Dewey Edition
19
TitleLeading
The
Series Volume Number
4
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
306/.46
Table Of Content
Communities and Hierarchies: Structure in the Practice of Science and Technology.- Paradigms, Revolutions, and Technology.- Organizational Aspects of Technological Change.- Cognitive Change in Technology and Science.- Notes Towards a Philosophy of the Science/Technology Interaction.- The Structure of Technological Change: Reflections on a Sociological Analysis of Technology.- Author Index.
Synopsis
One of the ironies of our time is the sparsity of useful analytic tools for understanding change and development within technology itself. For all the diatribes about the disastrous effects of technology on modern life, for all the equally uncritical paeans to technology as the panacea for human ills, the vociferous pro- and anti-technology movements have failed to illuminate the nature of technology. On a more scholarly level, in the midst of claims by Marxists and non-Marxists alike about the technological underpinnings of the major social and economic changes of the last couple of centuries, and despite advice given to government and industry about managing science and technology by a small army of consultants and policy analysts, technology itself remains locked inside an impenetrable black box, a deus ex machina to be invoked when all other explanations of puzzling social and economic pheoomena fail. The discipline that has probably done most to penetrate that black box in recent years by studying the 1 internal development of technology is history. Historians of technology and certain economic historians have carried out careful and detailed studies on the genesis and impact of technological innovations, and the structu-re of the social systems associated with those innovations. Within the past few decades tentative consensus about the periodization and the major traditions within the history of technology has begun to emerge, at least as far as Britain and America in the eighteenth and nineteenth century are concerned.
LC Classification Number
Q124.6-127.2
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