Technical Fouls
Subtitle: Democratic Dilemma and Technological Change
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780813319995
Subjects: Cultural studies; Impact of science & technology on society; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Technology: General Issues; Social Aspects; Technology And Social Change; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Technology and state; Politics/International Relations; Sociology - General; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Science / Democracy; Technology-Social Aspects; History & Theory - General; Democracy; Technology
First sentence: The primary problem in the "social control of the sciences," Nigel Calder observed, is reconciling "specialist expertise and long-range planning with the generalism of democracy in a way where ordinary citizens' wishes are heeded and experts neither bow nor dictate to administrative authority."