Research Catalog

Title

Technology and social shock / Edward W. Lawless.

Author

Lawless, Edward W.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1977.

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Details

Description

xii, 616 pages : graphs; 23 cm

Summary

USA. Monograph on the social implications and public opinion impact of innovations in technology - presents 45 case studies of public alarm concerning foods, industrial waste, medicine, pesticides, etc. And portraying the role of mass media in information dissemination.

Subject

• Since 1945
• Technology assessment > Case studies
• Technology > Public opinion > Case studies
• Technology > Social aspects > Case studies
• Social history > 1945-
• Social history
• Technology assessment
• Technology > Public opinion
• Technology > Social aspects
• social implication
• public opinion
• innovation
• technology
• case study
• food
• industrial waste
• medicine
• pesticide
• mass media
• information dissemination
• Technology assessment > Case studies
• Technology > Public opinion > Case studies
• Technology > Social aspects > Case studies
• Technologie > Évaluation > Cas, Études de
• Technologie > Cas, Études de
• Technique > Aspect social > Cas, Études de
• Histoire sociale > 1945- ..
• conséquences sociales
• opinion publique
• technologie
• étude de cas
• aliment
• déchets industriels
• médecine
• mass média
• diffusion de l'information
• consecuencias sociales
• opinión pública
• innovación
• tecnología
• estudio de casos
• alimento
• desperdicio industrial
• medicina
• plaguicida
• medios de comunicación de masas
• difusión de la información
• USA
• Etats-Unis
• Estados Unidos

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 0813507804
• 9780813507804
• 0813507812
• 9780813507811

LCCN

75044184

OCLC

• ocm01975358
• 1975358
• SCSB-9582328

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library