Rudi Volti (ed.), Society and Technological Change, 4th ed. (New York: Worth Publishing, 2001)


Preface
 

Part 1. ORIENTATIONS

1. The Nature of Technology

2. Winners and Losers: The Differential Effects of Technological Change
 

Part 2. THE PROCESS OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE

3. The Sources of Technological Change

4. Scientific Knowledge and Technological Advance

5. The Diffusion of Technology

6. Technology, Energy, and the Environment

7. Medical and Biological Technologies
 

Part 3. TECHNOLOGY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF WORK

8. Work in Nonindustrial Societies

9. Technology and Jobs: More of One and Less of the other?

10. Technological Change and Life on the Job
 

Part 4. COMMUNICATION

11. Printing
     The Printing Revolution
     Printing and the Expansion of Knowledge
     Printing and the Rise of Protestantism
     Printing, Literacy, and Social Change
     Psychological Effects of Printing
     Newspapers
     Circulation Wars and the Shaping of Public Opinion

12. The Electronic Media
 

Part 5. THE TOOLS OF DESTRUCTION

13. Weapons and Their Consequences
     Military Technology in the Ancient World
     Military Technology and the Feudal Order
     New Weapons and the Decline of Feudalism
     The Gunpowder Revolution
     War and the Centralized State
     Technological Change and Naval Culture in the Era of Battleship
     Weapons and the Making of the Modern World

14. How New Weapons Emerge ¡ª And How They May Be Contained
     Action and Reaction
     Social Structure and the Development of Military Technologies
     Organizational Interests and the Air Weapon
     Social Revolution and the Enlargement of War
     Industrial Technology in the Service of War
     Controlling Military Technologies
     Historical Attempts to Limit New Weapons
     A Successful Example of Arms Control
     Gun Control in Old Japan
     The Control of Nuclear Weapons
     Deterrence, but No More
     The Perils of Proliferation
 

Part 6. THE SHAPING AND CONTROL OF TECHNOLOGY

15. Technology and Its Creators: Who's in Charge of Them?

16. Organizations and Technological Change

17. Governing Technology