ENVS 5110
Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Studies

Classic STS

Two Beginnings

• Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson (1962)
  Chapters: 1, 2, and 17

• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn (1962, 1970)
  Chapters: I, II, and Postscript

Supporting Cast

• C.P. Snow (1905-1980) Two Cultures
  The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959): Complete text

• Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) Characterology of Technology, General Information
  The Technological Society (1964; French original 1954)
  Chapter 2: The Characterology of Technique

• E.F. Schumacher (1911-1977)
  Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (1973)
  Part 1, Sections 4 and 5: Buddhist Economics and A Question of Size

• Ivan Illich (1912-2002)
  Deschooling Society (1971)
  Chapter 7: Rebirth of Epimethean Man

• Tools for Conviviality (1973)
  Introduction and Chapter 1: Two Watersheds