Автор: Wisnioski, Matthew H. Название: Engineers for Change ISBN: 0262018268 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262018265 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 923.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.
In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change. The engineers were fighting to remake their profession, challenging their fellow engineers to embrace a more humane vision of technology. In Engineers for Change, Matthew Wisnioski offers an account of this conflict within engineering, linking it to deep-seated assumptions about technology and American life.
The postwar period in America saw a near-utopian belief in technology's beneficence. Beginning in the mid-1960s, however, society--influenced by the antitechnology writings of such thinkers as Jacques Ellul and Lewis Mumford--began to view technology in a more negative light. Engineers themselves were seen as conformist organization men propping up the military-industrial complex. A dissident minority of engineers offered critiques of their profession that appropriated concepts from technology's critics. These dissidents were criticized in turn by conservatives who regarded them as countercultural Luddites. And yet, as Wisnioski shows, the radical minority spurred the professional elite to promote a new understanding of technology as a rapidly accelerating force that our institutions are ill-equipped to handle. The negative consequences of technology spring from its very nature--and not from engineering's failures. "Sociotechnologists" were recruited to help society adjust to its technology. Wisnioski argues that in responding to the challenges posed by critics within their profession, engineers in the 1960s helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.
Автор: Soin Kanwaljit & Thomas Margaret Название: Our Lives To Live: Putting A Woman`S Face To Change In Singapore ISBN: 9814641979 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789814641975 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 8554.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Our Lives to Live: Putting a Woman`s Face to Change in Singapore explores and documents how women`s roles, choices, and voices in Singapore have changed in the last 50 years; how women, from all sectors of society, have helped to shape the Singapore we know today.
Описание: Contemporary Japan: History, Politics and Social Change sincethe 1980s presents a comprehensive examination of the causes ofthe Japanese economic bubble in the late 1980s and thesocio-political consequences of the recent financial collapse.
Автор: Cox Название: Qualitative Research and Social Change ISBN: 0230537278 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230537279 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Exploring the relationships between qualitative research and social change, this bookasks how social change is informed and influenced by research. Examples discussed are from research practice and experiences in the fields of sociology, social work, professional practice, education, criminal justice and anthropology."
Описание: An examination of age-related processes at a critical point in the life course. It combines a theoretical understanding of labour market and household/demographic processes to offer a new and coherent explanation of change in the transition from youth to adulthood.
Автор: Vale Название: Theory, Change and Southern Africa ISBN: 0333802764 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333802762 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 23757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this work, scholars of both international relations and Southern Africa present a wide variety of thoughts on the future and on the place of theory in helping us to understand the bewildering array of events characterizing the late modern, early 21st-century world.
Автор: Harvey William Burnett Название: Law and Social Change in Ghana ISBN: 0691624208 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691624204 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 9504.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: While Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ghana from 1962 to 1964, the author personally observed the evolving legal order in Ghana during a crucial period in that country`s development. Here, he considers statutes and judicial decisions. Working from the premise that law is a value-neutral technique of social order
Автор: Nulman Название: Climate Change and Social Movements ISBN: 1137468785 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137468789 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 14365.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Climate Change and Social Movements is a riveting and thorough exploration of three important campaigns to influence climate change policy in the United Kingdom. The author delves deep into the campaigns and illuminates the way policymakers think about and respond to social movements.
Описание: This is a study of the social and cultural implications of the growth of governance in England in the century after 1550. and analyses litigation, arbitration, social welfare, criminal justice, moral regulation and parochial analyses administration as manifestations of the increasing role of the state in early modern England.
Описание: The private vulnerabilities of the world`s most public man revealed.
Автор: Whiteley Название: Affluence, Austerity and Electoral Change in Britain ISBN: 1107024242 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107024243 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12355.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book investigates the political economy of party support in contemporary Britain. Marshalling a wealth of survey data gathered during the worst recession since the 1930s, the authors investigate support for New Labour and the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition and choices voters made in Britain`s referendum on the AV ballot.
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