Technology, Values, and Society: Social Forces in Technological Change

by Shirley Kolack and Mitra Das

Technology is not value-free; nor does it exist in a vacuum. It needs a social basis - technology is affected by society and influences it. Technology, Values, and Society illustrates this using an examination of cross-cultural case studies representing simple, intermediate, and complex societies. Certain forms of technology exist when conducive values and structures sustain them. However, this relationship is not one-way. Technological changes do...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433101890
• ISBN13: 9781433101892
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 160 Pages