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Classic STS Reading Schedule
Social Criticisms of Science and Technology

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Week #3 (Tue., Jan. 30, 2007) Mumford, Merton, Bronowski, Snow, Ellul, Schumacher, and Illich

  • Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (1934), selections
  • Robert Merton, “Science and the Social Order” (1938) and “The Normative Structure of Science” (1942)
  • Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values (1956)
  • C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959)
  • Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (1964)
  • E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful (1973)
  • Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society (1971), Chapter 7, “Rebirth of Epimethean Man.”
  • Tools for Conviviality (1973), Introduction and Chapter 1, “Two Watersheds.” 

Week #4 (Tue., Feb. 6, 2007) Part I continued

Week #5 (Tue., Feb. 13, 2007) Part I continued


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