THE DYNAMICS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Social Values, Technical Norms and Scientific Criteria in the Development of Knowledge

KROHN, Wolfgang, LAYTON, Edwin T. & WEINGART, Peter (eds)

ISBN 10: 9027708800 / ISBN 13: 9789027708809

Published by D. Reidel, Dordrecht/Boston, 1978

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Issued as Sociology of Science Yearbook 1978. xi+293; front endpaper has 2 lib.numbers, withdrawn stamp and rough strip of label removal ghost, lib. stamps to t.p. & verso same, also top & bottom edges of textblock, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked in excellent clean unworn covers with white lib.number bottom spine; uncllipped jacket clean and unworn but spine faded from blue to white with loss of all lettering, though small white lib.number to bottom with small patch of small blue flecks (will add protective sleeve when ordered). . An interesting collection of ten papers on topics as varied as the invention of the radio, development of turbines, technical education introduction of assembly lines and medicine. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range. Size: 15.5 Cms x 23 Cms.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE DYNAMICS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Social Values, Technical Norms and Scientific Criteria in the Development of Knowledge
• Publisher: D. Reidel, Dordrecht/Boston
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027708800
• ISBN 13: 9789027708809
• Binding: Dark Blue Cloth
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Condition: Good (+)
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • History of Science & Technology
  • Industry, Crafts, Technology, Occupations

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Synopsis

The interrelations of science and technology as an object of study seem to have drawn the attention of a number of disciplines: the history of both science and technology, sociology, economics and economic history, and even the philosophy of science. The question that comes to mind is whether the phenomenon itself is new or if advances in the disciplines involved account for this novel interest, or, in fact, if both are intercon­ nected. When the editors set out to plan this volume, their more or less explicit conviction was that the relationship of science and technology did reveal a new configuration and that the disciplines concerned with 1tS analysis failed at least in part to deal with the change because of conceptual and methodological preconceptions. To say this does not imply a verdict on the insufficiency of one and the superiority of any other one disciplinary approach. Rather, the situation is much more complex. In economics, for example, the interest in the relationship between science and technology is deeply influenced by the theoretical problem of accounting for the factors of economic growth. The primary concern is with technology and the problem is whether the market induces technological advances or whether they induce new demands that explain the subsequent diffusion of new technologies. Science is generally considered to be an exogenous factor not directly subject to market forces and, therefore, appears to be of no interest.