Research Catalog

Title

The Social implications of the scientific and technological revolution : a Unesco symposium.

Publication

Paris : Unesco, 1981.

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Additional Authors

• Unesco
• Československá akademie věd
• Československá komise pro spolupráci s Unesco

Description

xvi, 392 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

UNESCO pub. Conference report on the social implications of advancement in science and technological change, with particular reference to relationships to the social sciences - presents papers concerning the social functions of science and science policy, technology and social change, conditions in developing countries, philosophical problems of technological advancement, etc. Annotated bibliography pp. 377 to 379, diagrams and references. Conference held in prague 1976 September 6 to 10.

Subject

• Science > Social aspects > Congresses
• Technology > Social aspects > Congresses
• Science and state > Congresses
• Technology and state > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Contributions to an international conference held on Sept. 6-10, 1976 in Prague, and organized jointly by Unesco and the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in co-operation with the Czechoslovak Commission for Unesco.
• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [377]-379.

Contents

The internationalization of science / E. Mendelsohn -- Towards a unified and multidisciplinary approach / V. Mshvenieradze -- The role of social sciences / R. Richta -- A philosophical interpretation / P.N. Fedoseyev -- The unity of the social and natural sciences / S. Ganovski -- Social sciences and human development / A. Peccei -- The impact on man and social structure / G.R. Taylor -- Science, technology, and social progress / D.M. Gvishiani -- Social functions of science / G. Kröber -- Some conditions for and effective science and technology policy / P. Piganiol -- The assessment of technology and technological policies / K.A. Stroetmann -- Conditions in developing countries / A.M. Cisse -- The view from the Third World / E. Hegazy -- The Latin-American experience / P. Maxwell -- Some methodological problems of comparative research on the mode of life / J. Filipec -- Automation, technological, social, and economic change : the case of the Federal Republic of Germany / G. Friedrichs -- Integral management of the science-production cycle / L.M. Gatovski -- Science technology, modernization and social change / A.N.J. Hollander -- Social sciences as a channel between science and technology / S. Kansu --Technological change and social order / H. Okamoto -- Research and development needs for solving global problems / J. Platt -- The contributions that science can make towards a creative society / M.W. Thring.

ISBN

9231016644 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^81169437^

OCLC

• 7924054
• SCSB-13076978

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library