The MIT Press Modernity and Technolog phần 8 ppt

... the greatest. This is also the point where debates on modernity and post- modernity often lose their way in a nihilistic type of relativism (see Lyotard 1 984 a, 1 988 , 1993; Derrida 1 981 , 1 988 ; ... In the next section I critically discuss the relationship among technology, growth, and develop- ment in the context of reflexive modernity and reflexive development. Tec...

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... time, and social organization? As Phillip Brey notes in chapter 2, the major obstacle to a synthesis of modernity theory and technology studies is that technology studies mostly operate at the ... comprehending their relations. In the last part of the essay, I apply these methods and ar- guments to several examples from the history of infrastructures, including the Internet...

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... persuading the public to adopt a “better understanding” of the issues at stake. Technology promoters do test their innovations and if necessary modify them to fit with the regulatory system and the worldviews ... 2 58 288 David Hess of dose to age, size, and gender), CAM providers and their patients have pushed the rhetoric and practice of individualization to new levels....

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... the Netherlands. He is a former secretary of the European As- sociation for the Study of Science and Technology (1 981 86 ) and past president of the Society for Social Studies of Science (1 988 89 ). ... participation, 270, 272 Public understanding, 2 68 Purification, 84 , 339 Radder, Hans, 88 Railroads, 185 , 1 98, 205, 206 RAND, 217 Rationality, 5, 8, 75, 77, 85 , 95, 145,...

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... attention on how modernity is understood and deployed by actors in the realm of politics and policy making. In the environmental field, the understand- ings of modernity and the actions based on them are ... philosophical and methodological gaps and overlaps between technology studies and modernity theory. Using Thomas Kuhn and Karl Marx as exemplars of these two tr...

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... study of modernity and technology requires such a bridging of the micro and the macro, of the abstract and general and the concrete and empirical, of the large and diffuse and the small and singular. The ... of connecting the topics of modernity and technology, and of connecting modernity theory with technology stud- ies, is the problem of connectin...

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... to the flaws and limitations of the disclosure it supports under the social limitations of the existing form of modernity. The duality of technical processes is reflected in the split between modernity ... are asked to exercise choice there. Positioning 6641 CH03 UG 9/12/02 5:43 PM Page 98 Modernity Theory and Technology Studies 89 and dominated. The concept of justic...

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... both technology and modernity, of the two together, which grounds them in lived social relationships? And can we use ethnography as a basis for moving from the particularities of technology and modernity ... in the details: in the particular ways technology is socially shaped, in the light these throw on the nature both of ‘society’ and of ‘technology’; in the partic...

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... concerning the relationship between technology and modernity. Rather, he emphasized social factors, such as the discipline and regularity of the monastic life, which constituted the background of the ... and user on the one hand, and the capital goods tech- nology that supports such an interaction on the other hand. Through the processes supported by this institutio...

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... recognizes the con- nections, which are often suppressed or ignored, between technology on the one hand, and the culture and politics of modernity on the other. Coining a new abbreviation, POLIS, for the ... co-construction happens anyway and adds that actors will anticipate and reflect and act strategically all the time. In and through their interactions, there is an...

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