Born in Persia, raised in Southern Rhodesia and currently living in London, Lessing addresses personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions and inherited structures of unquestionable belief. The new ecclestiastical movement for social justice has been challenged by a conservative church and cultures which want to reconcile people to social inequality. Yet the movement is here to stay, because it is grounded in a new encounter with God. He inquires into the nature of the media in our political system where citizens cannot be disciplined by force, and so must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control. The Real World of Technology by experimental physicist Ursula Franklin.
Scientists view nature through a lens that has been molded by their social experience.
Science, like the Church before it, is a supremely social institution, reflecting and reinforcing the dominant values and views of society at each historical epoch. The Malaise of Modernity by McGill University political scientist Charles Taylor. A unique combination of greatness and danger characterizes the modern age. To see the full complexity and richness of the modern identity is to see how shallow and partial are the one-sided judgements we bandy around about it. Heilbroner demonstrates how these two aspects interrelate.