John Goyder

Technology and Society (eBook, PDF)

A Canadian Perspective, Second Edition

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

'Technology and Society is a thoroughly researched, insightful sociological analysis of complex issues in the technology / society relationship.' - David Long, The King's University College GoyderJohn: John Goyder, a professor of sociology at the ;University of Waterloo, is the author of Essentials of Canadian Society (1990) and The Silent Minority (1987). He collaborated with John Porter, Frank Jones, Peter Pineo, Monica Boyd, and Hugh McRoberts on the National Mobility study, reported in the 1985 book, Ascription and Achievement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442603011
• Artikelnr.: 54095377

Autorenporträt

By John Goyder

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. Human Beings and Technology:  Basic Relationships
1. Technology as Fate
2. Creating Technology
3. Technological Diffusion
Part II. Some Consequences of Technology
1. Technology and Economic Development
2. Technology: Class or Culture?
3. The D&D of R&D
4. Communications: Hot and Cool
5. Computer and Culture
6. Technology as Second Self
Part III: The Evaluative Dimension
7. Ethical Responses to Technology
8. Technology, Free Will, Inequality, and Fate
Glossary
Index