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Author : Nancie L. Gonzalez
Release : 1978-03-16
Genre : Nature
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Book Synopsis Social-technological Man/h by : Nancie L. Gonzalez
Download or read book Social-technological Man/h written by Nancie L. Gonzalez. This book was released on 1978-03-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancie L. Gonzalez
Release : 2020-04-28
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Book Synopsis Socialtechnological Man/h by : Nancie L. Gonzalez
Download or read book Socialtechnological Man/h written by Nancie L. Gonzalez. This book was released on 2020-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent international attention has focused on desertification and its concomitants, especially the diminution of flora and fauna in arid and semiarid lands and the resulting reduction in the economic value of those lands. Natural factors such as drought and wind erosion, as well as various technological practices, have been blamed for the present situation in many countries. Most observers agree that human beings have been both perpetrators and victims of desertification. Anthropologists have long been interested in documenting hew different societies have affected and been affected by their environments. The papers in this volume present ease studies of societies ranging from ancient Peru to contemporary Israel, along with several topically oriented works. All are designed to illustrate how various societies--whether by water management or by the exploitation of plants and animals--have attempted to achieve ecological balance. Social organization and ideology as well as technology are discussed as important variables affecting the ways in which populations adapt to, or cope with, desertification.
Author : Peter Whalley
Release : 1986-01-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Social Production of Technical Work by : Peter Whalley
Download or read book The Social Production of Technical Work written by Peter Whalley. This book was released on 1986-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineers appear in recent social science as central, though somewhat elusive, figures. They play a particularly critical role in the various attempts to understand the impact of 'science-based' industry on the class structure of advanced capitalist societies. In this book, Peter Whalley brings these engineers into sharper focus. He argues that engineers should not be seen as members of a glamorous 'new class' of professionalized knowledge workers, nor as a radicalized 'new working class' or partially de-skilled technical proletariat. Rather, they should be viewed as 'trusted employees,' selected, socialized, trained, and rewarded to perform the discretionary tasks necessarily delegated by employers in the complex organizations of advanced capitalism. The book draws extensively on observations and interviews to compare engineers' work and understanding in the high- and low-tech settings of two British companies: "Computergraph," an advanced electronics firm, and "Metalco," a traditional British engineering giant. Whalley compares the technical work structure of Britain with those of France and the United States. He argues that the impact of technological change on class structure is critically mediated by nationally specific modes of organizing technical work and producing trusted workers. The book goes beyond cultural explanations of these national variations to examine how they are created and reproduced in the organization of work and the structuring of occupations.
Author : Nancie L. Gonzalez
Release : 1978-03-16
Genre : Nature
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Book Synopsis Social-technological Man/h by : Nancie L. Gonzalez
Download or read book Social-technological Man/h written by Nancie L. Gonzalez. This book was released on 1978-03-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wiebe E. Bijker
Release : 2012-05-18
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Synopsis The Social Construction of Technological Systems, anniversary edition by : Wiebe E. Bijker
Download or read book The Social Construction of Technological Systems, anniversary edition written by Wiebe E. Bijker. This book was released on 2012-05-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anniversary edition of an influential book that introduced a groundbreaking approach to the study of science, technology, and society. This pioneering book, first published in 1987, launched the new field of social studies of technology. It introduced a method of inquiry—social construction of technology, or SCOT—that became a key part of the wider discipline of science and technology studies. The book helped the MIT Press shape its STS list and inspired the Inside Technology series. The thirteen essays in the book tell stories about such varied technologies as thirteenth-century galleys, eighteenth-century cooking stoves, and twentieth-century missile systems. Taken together, they affirm the fruitfulness of an approach to the study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions, and they demonstrate the illuminating effects of the integration of empirics and theory. The approaches in this volume—collectively called SCOT (after the volume's title) have since broadened their scope, and twenty-five years after the publication of this book, it is difficult to think of a technology that has not been studied from a SCOT perspective and impossible to think of a technology that cannot be studied that way.
