TY - BOOK
T1 - Science, Technology, and Social Change
AU - Yearley, Steven
N1 - New edition of a book originally published in 1988
PY - 2014/4/17
Y1 - 2014/4/17
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Science-Technology-and-Social-Change-Routledge-Revivals/Yearley/p/book/9781138799288
M3 - Book
SN - 9781138799288
SN - 9781138799318
T3 - Routledge Revivals
BT - Science, Technology, and Social Change
PB - Routledge
ER -