The Sociology of the Opposition to Science and Technology
With Special Reference to the Work of Jacques Ellul
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2106876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Sklair (0000-0002-9582-9684, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 217-235 |
| Publication date | 1971-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500006216 |
| OpenAlex | W2082743334 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 28 |
The history, philosophy, sociology and even the science of science are by now thriving activities. This is in no way surprising; indeed if one examines the development of each of these approaches to the study of sciences, the surprising thing is that it emerged so comparatively recently. The history of science as an academic discipline tends to begin with a reference to Comte's grand scheme of the mid-nineteenth century, passing through Sarton's great pioneering work of the first half of the present century, largely embodied in the volumes of Isis (1913- ), founded, edited and in no small part written by Sarton himself. At present, so far as one can see, many historians of science are rethinking the great and fairly continuously progressive features of Sarton's account, and the emphasis is turning more and more to the discontinuities
Epistemology · History of science · Opposition (politics) · Philosophy of science · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Thriving · Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies · Historical and Literary Studies · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Philosophy
Democracy and Industrialization
Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge
Invention and Economic Growth
Little Science, Big Science
The structure of scientific revolutions
Die soziale Funktion der Wissenschaft
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
The Bureaucratic Phenomenon
The Sociology of Progress
Social Theory and Social Structure
The Technological Society
Bringing Men Back In
The Sociology of Science
The Oversocialized Conception of Man in Modern Sociology
Democracy and Industrialisation
The Concepts Traditional and Modern in Comparative Social Research - an Empirical Evaluation1
Human Factors in Technology
Human Problems in Technological Change
The Technological Order
Is Technology Historically Independent of Science? A Study in Statistical Historiography
Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England
Tradition and Modernity
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2014 (36) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |