Technology and social power / Graeme Kirkpatrick.
Material type: TextPublisher: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008Description: ix, 182 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1403947287
- 9781403947284
- 1403947309
- 9781403947307
- 303.483 22
- T14.5 .K573 2008
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 303.483 KIR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A468932B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-175) and index.
1. Technology and Social Power -- 2. The Meaning of Technology -- 3. Modernity Theory -- 4. Social Domination -- 5. The Limits of Social Constructionism -- 6. Technology as Culture -- 7. Digital Technical Politics.
"This text provides an overview of debates in the sociology of technology, including definitions of the main terms and concepts and discussion of the dominant positions, especially in recent scholarship. At the same time, it develops a novel perspective on the subject based in critical theory, bridging work in the sociology of science and technology with wider debate in social theory. It integrates empirical and theoretical elements in well-themed chapters and draws on interesting contemporary examples such as mobile phones and computer games to offer a distinctive sociological perspective on an important dimension of social life."--Publisher description.
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