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In this chapter, I argue that social anthropology has already discovered a great deal about human technological activity-especially when anthropologi-cal findings are interpreted in the context of recent, stunning advances in the sociology of scientific knowledge (11), the history and sociology of technol-
- Crosscurrents: Social Movements and the Anthropology of Science and ...
A comparative analysis of existing anthropological research...
- Crosscurrents: Social Movements and the Anthropology of Science and ...
Technology is not only the material means of making artifacts, but a dynamic cultural phenomenon embedded in social action, worldviews, and social reproduction. This paper explores the theoretical …
The anthropology of science and technology is an expanding arena of inquiry and intervention that critically examines the cultural boundary that sets science and technology off from the lives and experiences of people.
A comparative analysis of existing anthropological research on science, technology, and social movements provides the basis for limited generalizations regarding the types and circumstances of charged cultural repertoires that both social movements and elites invoke. [Keywords: social movements, science, technology, cultural repertoires, theory]
From its very origins as a discipline, anthropology has recorded and researched human-technology interfaces in efforts to account for and understand forms of social organisation and practice as well as systems of belief and meaning throughout the world.
23 lip 2021 · Blurring the boundary between life and technological nonlife has obscured the widening economic gap between the victims and the beneficiaries of accumulation. As ideologies are prone to do, the image of technology as artificial life mystifies social inequalities by representing them as natural.
16 cze 2005 · Contrary to theories that depict the individual's relation to society as one of victimization, endless malleability, or just a square peg in a round hole, he proposes that the individual human being is designed by nature to be part of society.
