Social Issues in Technology: A Format for Investigation - Hardcover

Alcorn, Paul A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130206814 ISBN 13: 9780130206817

Publisher: Pearson, 1999

Synopsis

For courses covering Social Issues in Technology, Technology and Culture, Technological Anthropology, Technology and Ethics, or History of Technology, in technology, humanities, or social science departments.

Finely-focused on the technology-society connection, this unique text presents the methods and theories available for exploring the effects of technology on our lives―past, present, and future. It is designed as a primer to give investigators and students the necessary intellectual tools to begin their own research into the field.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The world is changing at an incredible rate. Most of these changes are taking place as the result of technological advances.

• We have survived Y2K.
• We are on the verge of a communications revolution.
• We have mapped the human genome in its entirety.

In the fourth edition of Social Issues in Technology, Paul Alcorn continues his systematic theme and provides the most up-to-date information concerning issues previously discussed. Chapter 4, Economics and Cultural Impetus, and Chapter 10, Catastrophic Theory: The Plague of Technological Complexity, have both been expanded. A new report on the effects of modernization on traditional Maasai societies in Tanzania and Kenya has been added.

Instructors who are using this book for a course should obtain the accompanying Instructor's Manual (ISBN: 0-13060258-2).

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0130206814
• ISBN 13: 9780130206817
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 291