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