Cultures of Control

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-5823-013-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

This collection of essays explores the history of control by looking at a variety of cultural forms, practices, and beliefs. These ideas are examined critically, not only in the light of the possibilities which control technologies seem to offer for resolving human problems, but also the contradictory moral, political, and economic consequences they have had. The discussion takes into account the important modes in which humans have cast their organizational efforts: political, social, sychological, economic, and legal. It also takes a longue durée view of the history of control, looking back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and establishes the continuities in the twentieth century as a transatlantic phenomenon.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levin, Miriam R

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures, Preface, List of Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Part 1: Conventional Notions of Culture and Original Modes of Control, Part 2: Managing Machines, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Levin, Miriam R.