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100 1 $aJacobsen, John Kurt,$eauthor.
245 10 $aTechnical fouls :$bdemocracy and technological change /$cJohn Kurt Jacobsen.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bRoutledge,$c2018.
300 $a1 online resource
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $acomputer$bc$2rdamedia
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490 1 $aInterventions: theory and contemporary politics
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
588 0 $aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 15, 2018).
520 3 $aWhat is it that shapes the direction of technological progress in advanced industrial societies? Is it science? Technology itself? Or is it something even more powerful and all-encompassing, like power or money or politics? John Kurt Jacobsen addresses this topic by investigating how contemporary democratic capitalist states govern the development and deployment of their scientific and technological resources. He examines the interaction of ideology, profits, and power, and their combined effect upon technology policy in democracies. The?social function of science? has been a contentious area of scholarly study throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Although the book focuses mainly on the United States, for the sake of instructive comparison, it also studies technological development of other societies, including the former Soviet Union and China. Some competing accounts of technical change across the borders include laissez faire, cultural, and neo-Marxist markets. In fact, with regard to laissez faire markets, even to inquire if science has a social function is to deviate from the appropriate images of economic development. What is always politically at stake is who will rule the next stage in production due to each swing in technology, which will, in turn, be associated with a new structure of control. Most recently, the microchip revolution and cyberspace are the most highly publicized candidates for the next upswing in technology?and thus the next new structure of control. The explanatory focus of the book is on ideology, or on ideas about how technology works and should work, and the three key areas of policy contention discussed are industrial development, military uses, and the environment. Students and scholars of science, technology, and sociology should find this book useful in coming to terms with the fundamental questions underlying the development of technology today.
650 0 $aTechnology and state.
650 0 $aTechnology$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aDemocracy.
650 0 $aScience and state.
650 6 $aPolitique scientifique et technique.
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650 7 $aScience and state.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01108536
650 7 $aDemocracy.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00890077
650 7 $aTechnology and state.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01145265
650 7 $aTechnology$xSocial aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01145202
655 4 $aElectronic books.
830 0 $aInterventions--theory and contemporary politics.
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