The Sociological Review · 1990 · 2.1K citations · 5 references
Social SciencesSociologyCultural TheoryPhilosophy Of TechnologyPolitical SociologyNature Of TechnologyPolitical PowerPower In OrganizationsScience-technology-society RelationshipsSocial ChangeSocial DominanceSocial Construction Of TechnologySocial DominationSocial Shaping Of TechnologyTechnological Politics
Is it possible to devise a set of concepts that could replace the technology/society divide? This set of new concepts - association and substitution - might help to rephrase some of the traditional questions of social order and especially that of the durability of domination of power. However, instead of using different tools to analyse power and weakness, it is argued that power and domination are simply different values of variables that should be studied in their whole range. By reconstructing networks it is argued that a full description of power and domination may be obtained.
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The Electrification of America: The System Builders
Thomas P. Hughes · Technology and Culture · 1979 · 151 citations
Humanities, History, Philosophy +7