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Social Shaping of Technology
Donald Mackenzie
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Description for Social Shaping of Technology
Paperback. Demonstrates that technology is affected at a fundamental level by the social context in which it develops. This book features arguments about the relation of technology to society. It examines different types of technology and argues that social scientists have tended to ignore the question of what shapes technology? Num Pages: 480 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JHM; PDR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 173 x 28. Weight in Grams: 834.
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"....This book is a welcome addition to the sociology of technology, a field whose importance is increasingly recognised." - Sociology
Read more"....This book is a welcome addition to the sociology of technology, a field whose importance is increasingly recognised." - Sociology
"....sets a remarkably high standard in breadth of coverage, in scholarship, and in readability and can be recommended to the general reader and to the specialist alike." - Science and Society
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Product Details
Publisher
Open University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Weight
834g
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780335199136
SKU
V9780335199136
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Ref
99-1
About Donald Mackenzie
Donald MacKenzie holds a personal Chair in Sociology at Edinburgh University, where he has taught since 1975. He is the author of Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge (Edinburgh University Press, 1981), Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (MIT Press, 1990) and of Knowing Machines: Essays in Technical Change (MIT Press, 1996). The...
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"Delanty has written a fluent and succinct overview of social theory, including informed commentary and critique...The book presents some very good potted accounts of the various theoretical positions in the social sciences and sets out issues that are not yet resolved. It should be added to the reading lists of theory and methodology courses in the social sciences." - The...
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