Technology

Books:

Albrow. The Global Age: State and Society Beyond Modernity (1996);

Amin. Obsolescent Capitalism (2003);

     -     Beyond US Hegemony: Assessing the Prospects for a Multipolar World (2006);

Bainbridge. The Spaceflight Revolution (1976);

     -     American Values and the Future of Technology (1991);

     -     Nanotechnology: Societal ImplicationsIndividual Perspectives (2006);

     -     God from the Machine: Artifical Intelligence Models of Religious Cognition (2006);

     -     Goals in Space: The Secular Abyss (2007);

     -     The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World (2010);

     -     An Information Technology Surrogate for Religion (2014);

     -     The Meaning and Value of Spaceflight (2015);

     -     Star Worlds: Freedom Versus Control in Online Gameworlds (2016);

     -     Family History Digital Libraries (2018);

     -     Computer Simulation of Space Societies (2018);

     -     Virtual Local Manufacturing Communities: Online Simulations of Future Workshop Systems (2019);

Bauman. Modernity and the Holocaust (1989);

Boserup. Population and Technological Change: A Study of Long-Term Trends (1981);

Braverman. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (1974);

Burns. The Management of Innovation (1961);

Castells. City, Class and Power (1978);

     -     The Informational City: Information Technology, Economic Restructuring, and the Urban Regional Process (1989);

     -     Technopoles of the World: The Making of 21st Century Industrial Complexes (1994);

     -     The Information Age: The Rise of Network Society (1996); 

     -     The Information Age: The Power of Identity (1997); 

     -     The Internet Galaxy (2001);

     -     The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model (2001);

     -     The Network Society: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (2004); 

     -     The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy (2006);

     -     Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (2006);

Chafetz. Sex and Advantage: A Comparative Macro-Structural Theory of Sexual Stratification (1984);

Cockburn. Brothers: Male Dominance and Technical Change (1983);

     -     Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men and Technical Know-how (1985);

     -     Gender and Technology in the Making (1993); 

Ehrenreich. Women in the Global Factory (1983);

Engels. The Condition of the Working Class in England (1885, in German 1845);

     -     The Principles of Communism (2019, in German 1847);

     -     The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (2010, in German 1884);

Friedmann. Industrial Society: The Emergence of Human Problems of Automation (1955, in French 1946);

Fromm. The Revolution of Hope, Toward a Humanized Technology (1968);

Gellner. Plough, Sword and the Book: The Strucuture of Human History (1988);

Giddens. The Consequences of Modernity (1990);

     -     The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (1998);

Gorz. Farewell to the Working Class (1997, in French 1980);

Haraway. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985):

     -     Modest_Witness @Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience (1997);

Harvey. The Condition of Postmodernity (1989);

Hawley. Human Ecology: A Theory of Community Structure (1950);

Hobhouse. The Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler Peoples (1915);

Illich. Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health (1975);

Knorr-Cetina. The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science (1981);

     -     Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge (1999);  

Latour. Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts (1979);

     -     Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society (1987);

     -     The Pasteurization of France (1988, in French 1985);

     -     We Have Never Been Modern (1993, in French 1991); 

     -     Aramis, or the Love of Technology (1996, in French 1992);

Lenski. Ecological-Evolutionary Theory (2006);

Lyotard. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1984, in French 1979);

Marcuse. One-Dimensional Man (1964);

Marx. Capital Vol. 1, 2, & 3: The Only Complete and Unabridged Edition in One Volume (2020, in German 1867, 1885, 1894);

Mayo. The Human Problems of an Industrialized Civilization (1933);

     -     The Social Problems of an Industrialized Civilization (1945);

Merton. Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth-century England (1936);

Mills. White Collar: The American Middle Classes (1951);

Mumford. Technics and Civilization (1934);

     -     The Culture of Cities (1938);

     -     The City in History (1961);  

     -     The Highway and the City (1963);

     -     The Myth of the Machine, 2 vols. (1967, 1970);

Ogburn. Recent Social Trends, 2. vols. (1933);

     -     Technology and the Changing Family (1955);

Park. Old World Traits Transplanted: the Early Sociology of Culture (1921);

     -     The City: Suggestions for the Study of Human Nature in the Urban Environment (1925);

Parsons. Sociological Theory and Modern Society (1967);

Redfield. The Primitive World and its Transformations (1953);

Rogers. Diffusion of Innovations (1962);

     -     Modernization among Peasants: The Impact of Communication (1969);

     -     Communication and Development: Critical Perspectives (1976);

     -     Growth of High-Technology Culture (1984);

     -     The Media Revolution in America and in Western Europe (1985);

     -     Communication Technology: The New Media in Society (1986);

Rostow. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non Communist Manifesto (1960);

Rowbotham. Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World (1997);

Sanderson. Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development (1995);

Schumpeter. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942);

Sklair. Sociology of Progress (1970);

     -     Organized Knowledge: Sociological View of Science and Technology (1973);

     -     Assembling for Development: the Maquila Industry in Mexico and the United States (1989);

     -     Sociology of the Global System (1991);

     -     Capitalism and Development (1994);

     -     Transnational Capitalist Class (2001);

     -     Capitalism and its Alternatives (2002);

Smelser. Social Change in the Industrial Revolution: An Application of Theory to the British Cotton Industry (1959);

Spencer. Principles of Sociology, 3 vols. (1876-1896);

Tilly. As Sociology Meets History (1981);

     -     Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons (1985);

Tocqueville. Democracy in America (2021, in French 1835, 1840);

Toffler. Future Shock (1970);

     -     The Third Wave (1980);

     -     Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century (1990);

Turner J. Theoretical Principles of Sociology, 3 vols (2010-2012);

Virilio. The Information Bomb (2006, in French 1998);

Wallerstein. The Modern World System, 4 Vols. (1974-2012);

Weber A. Alfred Weber's Theory of the Location of Industries (2019, in German 1909);

Williams. Television: Technology and Cultural Form (1974);

Wilson B. Religion in Secular Society (1966);

Wittfogel. Oriental Despotism (1957).

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