Rethinking science, technology, and social change
By: Ralph Schroeder.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804755887
Subjects: Science -- Social aspects; Technology -- Social aspects; Social history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why rethinking?; title: The social organization of scientific and technological advance; title: Big science and large technological systems; title: Science, technology, and economic change; title: The mediation of politics as a large technological system; title: The consumption of technology in everyday life; title: Who's afraid of scientific objectivity and technological determinism?