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Science, Technology, and Social Change (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Yearley, Steven

 
9781138799318: Science, Technology, and Social Change (Routledge Revivals)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138799319 ISBN 13: 9781138799318
Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

First published in 1988, this book provides students with a way to increase their understanding of the role of science and technology in society. Steven Yearley draws on and develops ideas from research in the sociology and politics of science to address, in particular: the nature of scientific knowledge and the authority it commands; the political and economic role of science in the West; the relationship between science, technology, and social change in underdeveloped countries. Examples used range from nineteenth-century brain science to the strategic defence initiative, and from hugely expensive experiments in nuclear physics, to proposals for inexpensive boat-building programmes in the Sudan. Overall, this reissue provides a comprehensive and stimulating account of the role played by science and technology in contemporary social change.

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Steven Yearley

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138799319
ISBN 13 
9781138799318
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
210