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- The Social Shaping of Technology
- Publication Name
- Social Shaping of Technology
- Title
- The Social Shaping of Technology
- Format
- Book, Other
- EAN
- 9780335199136
- ISBN
- 9780335199136
- Publisher
- Mcgraw-Hill Education
- Genre
- Science Nature & Math
- Topic
- Language & Reference
- Release Date
- 16/06/1999
- Release Year
- 1999
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Item Width
- 6.8in
- Item Weight
- 31.7 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Type
- Textbook
- Features
- Revised
- Number of Pages
- 480 Pages
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Reviews of the 1st Edition: "....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 "....This remarkably readable and well-edited anthology focuses, in a wide variety of concrete examples, not on the impacts of technologies on societies but in the reverse: how different social contexts shaped the emergence of particular technologies." - Technology and Culture How does social context affect the development of technology? What is the relationship between technology and gender Is production technology shaped by efficiency or by social control? Technological change is often seen as something that follows its own logic - something we may welcome, or about which we may protest, but which we are unable to alter fundamentally. This reader challenges that assumption and its distinguished contributors demonstrate that technology is affected at a fundamental level by the social context in which it develops. General arguments are introduced about the relation of technology to society and different types of technology are examined: the technology of production; domestic and reproductive technology; and military technology. The book draws on authors from Karl Marx to Cynthia Cockburn to show that production technology is shaped by social relations in the workplace. It moves on to the technologies of the household and biological reproduction, which are topics that male-dominated social science has tended to ignore or trivialise - though these are actually of crucial significance where powerful shaping factors are at work, normally unnoticed. The final section asks what shapes the most frightening technology of all - the technology of weaponry, especially nuclear weapons. The editors argue that social scientists have devoted disproportionate attention to the effects of technology on society, and tended to ignore the more fundamental question of what shapes technology in the first place. They have drawn both on established work in the history and sociology of technology and on newer feminist perspectives to show just how important and fruitful it is to try to answer that deeper question. The first edition of this reader, published in 1985, had a considerable influence on thinking about the relationship between technology and society. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded to take into account new research and the emergence of new theoretical perspectives.
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Publisher
Mcgraw-Hill Education
ISBN-10
0335199135
ISBN-13
9780335199136
eBay Product ID (ePID)
451385
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Social Shaping of Technology
Format
Book, Other
Language
English
Features
Revised
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.8in
Item Weight
31.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
T14.5.S6383 1999
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Edition Number
2
Table of Content
Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Editors' note Preface to the Second Edition /f002Part 1: Introductory essay and general issues Introductory essay: the social shaping of technology Do artifacts have politics? Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium Edison and electric light Inventing personal computing Constructing a bridge Competing technologies and economic prediction The social construction of technology Redefining the social link from baboons to humans Caught in the wheels the high cost of being a female cog in the male machinery of engineering Making 'white' people white /f002Part 2: The technology of production Introduction The watermill and feudal authority The machine versus the worker Technology and capitalist control Social choice in machine design the case of automatically controlled machine tools The material of male power What machines can't do politics and technology in the industrial enterprise Writers, texts and writing acts gendered user images in word processing software Learning by trying the implementation of configurational technology Working relations of technology production and use /f002Part 3: Reproductive technology Introduction The industrial revolution in the home A gendered socio-technical construction the smart house A woman's place Dolores Hayden on the 'grand domestic revolution' Inserting Grafenberg's IUD into the sex reform The decline of the one-size-fits-all paradigm, or, how reproductive scientists try to cope with post-modernity /f002Part 4: Military technology Introduction Cold war and white heat the origins and meanings of packet switching Manufacturing gender in military cockpit design The American army and the M-16 rifle The Thor-Jupiter controversy The weapons succession process Theories of technology and the abolition of nuclear weapons Bibliography Index.
Copyright Date
1999
Topic
Social Aspects, Sociology / General
Lccn
98-041239
Dewey Decimal
306.4/6
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Social Science
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