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  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1319058256
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1319058258
  • Author:  Rudi Volti

Society and Technological Change is the best text available for undergraduate courses exploring the relationship between societal and technological change Brimming with Rudi Volti’s expertise and enthusiasm for its dynamic subject, this always timely volume helps students grasp the vast societal implications of a wide range of technological breakthroughs, both historic and contemporary.

 

Table of Content:

  1. PART ONE: Defining Technology
  2. Chapter 1: The Nature of Technology
  3. Defining Technology
  4. Technological Advance and the Image of Progress
  5. Technology as a Metaphor
  6. Technology and Rationality
  7. Technological Determinism
  8. Living in a Technological Society
  9. Questions for Discussion
  10. Chapter 2: Winners and Losers: The Differential Effects of Technological Change
  11. Technology as a Subversive Force
  12. The Luddites
  13. Neo-Luddism
  14. Whose Technology?
  15. What Technology Can Do—And What It Cannot Do
  16. Questions for Discussion
  17. PART TWO: The Process of Technological Change
  18. Chapter 3: The Sources of Technological Change
  19. Technological Change as a Social Process
  20. The Great Breakthrough
  21. The “D” in R&D
  22. Putting It All Together
  23. Clearing Bottlenecks through Technology Transfer
  24. Supply and Demand: The “Push” and the “Pull”
  25. Belated Demand: The Question of Market Timing
  26. How Market Economies Drive Technological Innovation
  27. Obstacles to Innovation in Centrally Planned Economies
  28. Noneconomic Sources of Technological Advance
  29. Questions for Discussion
  30. Chapter 4: Scientific Knowledge and Technological Advance
  31. The Historical Separation of Science and Technology
  32. Studies of Contemporary Science–Technology Relationships
  33. How Technology Differs from Science
  34. How Technology Facilitates Scientific Discovery
  35. Legitimating Science through Technology
  36. The Translation of Science into Technology
  37. The Commonalities of Science and Technology
  38. Questions for Discussion
  39. Chapter 5: The Diffusion of Technology
  40. Technology on the Move
  41. Clever Copyists
  42. Adaptation and Adoption
  43. Learning to Make Steel in Old Japan
  44. Appropriate Technology
  45. Organizations and Technological Diffusion
  46. A Risky Business
  47. The NIH Syndrome
  48. Efforts to Restrict the Diffusion of Technology
  49. Patents and the Diffusion of Technology
  50. Questions for Discussion
  51. PART THREE: How Technology Affects the Health of Earth and Its Inhabitants
  52. Chapter 6: Technology, Energy, and the Environment
  53. Fossil Fuels, Air Pollution, and Climate Change
  54. A Planet under Stress
  55. Is Technology the Problem or the Solution?
  56. Some Technological Fixes of the Past
  57. Alternatives to Fossil Fuels
  58. Doing More with Less
  59. More Miles to the Gallon
  60. Economic Systems, Government Policies, and the Environment
  61. Questions for Discussion
  62. Chapter 7: Medical Technologies
  63. New Medical Technologies: Choices and Trade-offs
  64. The Case of Kidney Dialysis
  65. Replacing Broken Hearts
  66. Diagnostic Technologies
  67. Medical Technologies and Medical Ethics
  68. New Ways of Making and Sustaining Babies
  69. When Does Life End? When Should It?
  70. Halfway Technologies
  71. Questions for Discussion
  72. Chapter 8: Genetic Technologies
  73. The Genetic Fix
  74. Discovering Genes and Patenting Them
  75. Bioengineering on the Farm
  76. Genetic Mapping and Screening
  77. Cloning, Present and Future
  78. Stem Cells and Future Therapies
  79. The Perils of Genetic Intervention
  80. Questions for Discussion
  81. PART FOUR: Technology and the Transformation of Work
  82. Chapter 9: Work in Nonindustrial Societies
  83. Working with the Earliest Tools
  84. Work and Leisure in Technologically Primitive Societies
  85. Work and the Development of Agriculture
  86. Farming Techniques and Patterns of Work
  87. The Ironies of Progress
  88. Urbanization, Specialization, and Economic Relationships
  89. Guild Organization and Technological Change
  90. Slavery and the Inhibition of Technological Development
  91. The Measurement of Time and Changed Working Patterns
  92. The Clock
  93. Questions for Discussion
  94. Chapter 10: Technology and Jobs: More of One and Less of the Other?
  95. The Technological Threat in Historical Perspective
  96. A Case for Optimism
  97. How Technology Creates Jobs
  98. The Indirect Effects of New Technologies on Employment
  99. The Machines Aren’t Ready to Take Over
  100. Technology, Jobs, and the Changing Structure of the Economy
  101. Technology and the Distribution of Income
  102. Technology, Globalization, and Jobs
  103. Rebounding from Job Losses
  104. Benefits, but Disruption Too
  105. Questions for Discussion
  106. Chapter 11: Technological Change and Life on the Job
  107. Industrial Production
  108. Machine-Paced Labor
  109. Is Technology to Blame?
  110. Industrial Technology and the Division of Labor
  111. Scientific Management Once Again
  112. Industrial Work and Recent Technological Developments
  113. Technological Change and White-Collar Work
  114. Telework
  115. The “Gig Economy”
  116. Smart Technologies and Dumb Jobs?
  117. Questions for Discussion
  118. PART FIVE: Communication
  119. Chapter 12: Printing
  120. The Printing Revolution
  121. Printing and the Expansion of Knowledge
  122. Printing and the Rise of Protestantism
  123. Printing, Literacy, and Social Change
  124. Psychological Effects of Printing
  125. Newspapers
  126. Digitizing the News
  127. Reading Digitally
  128. Questions for Discussion
  129. Chapter 13: The Electronic Media: From the Telegraph to Television
  130. The Invention of Radio
  131. The Origins of Commercial Radio
  132. The Rise of Television
  133. The Federal Government Steps In
  134. The Television-Viewing Public
  135. Violence on Television and Its Consequences
  136. Delivering the News
  137. Television and Politics
  138. Television and Thought
  139. Questions for Discussion
  140. Chapter 14: The Internet Age
  141. The Birth and Growth of the Internet
  142. Social Media and the Network Effect
  143. Mobile Communications
  144. Social Media and Social Movements
  145. The Digital Divide
  146. Video Games
  147. Intellectual Property
  148. Privacy in the Digital Age
  149. The Electronic Media in Modern Society
  150. Questions for Discussion
  151. PART SIX: The Tools of Destruction
  152. Chapter 15: Weapons and Their Consequences
  153. Military Technology in the Ancient World
  154. Military Technology and the Feudal Order
  155. New Weapons and the Decline of Feudalism
  156. The Gunpowder Revolution
  157. War and the Centralized State
  158. Technological Change and Naval Culture in the Era of the Battleship
  159. Weapons and the Making of the Modern World
  160. Questions for Discussion
  161. Chapter 16: The Era of Smart Weapons
  162. Cruise Missiles
  163. Smart Bombs
  164. High-Tech Surveillance
  165. Drones
  166. The Cost of Technological Sophistication
  167. Asymmetrical Warfare
  168. Cyberterrorism and Cyberattacks
  169. Military Technologies in a Changing World
  170. Questions for Discussion
  171. Chapter 17: How New Weapons Emerge—And How They May Be Contained
  172. Action and Reaction
  173. Social Structure and the Development of Military Technologies
  174. Expanding the Scale and Scope of War
  175. Industrial Technology in the Service of War
  176. Controlling Military Technologies
  177. The Perils of Proliferation
  178. Questions for Discussion
  179. PART SEVEN: The Shaping and Control of Technology
  180. Chapter 18: Technology and Its Creators: Who’s in Charge of Whom?
  181. Technological Advance and Cultural Lag
  182. Technology, Globalization, and Cultural Convergence
  183. Experts, Expertise, and the Shaping of Technology
  184. Engineers and the Control of Technology
  185. Questions for Discussion
  186. Chapter 19: Organizations and Technological Change
  187. Technology as a Cause of Organizational Structure
  188. Technology as a Consequence of Organizational Structure
  189. Organizational Size and Technological Innovation
  190. Organizations and New Information Technologies
  191. Interorganizational Relations and Technological Development
  192. Entrepreneurs and Organizations
  193. Questions for Discussion
  194. Chapter 20: Governing Technology
  195. Government Actions and the Shaping of Technology
  196. Paying for Science and Technology
  197. But Is It Really Necessary?
  198. Government Institutions for the Guidance of Technology
  199. How Government Policies Shape Technological Change
  200. The Democratic Control of Technology
  201. The Challenges of the Future
  202. Questions for Discussion
  203. Notes
  204. Index

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