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ENVS 5110
Science and Society: An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies

Pre STS Reading Schedule
Social Criticisms of Science and Technology

Supporting Cast

Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) Technology in History, General Information
Technics and Civilization (1934)
Chapter 1: sections 1-3

Philosophy and Technology, by Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey, eds. (1972)
Chapter: Technics and the Nature of Man

Robert Merton (1910-2003) Ethos of Science
The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations (1973)
Sections: Science and the Social Order and The Normative Structure of Science