Civilization At Crossroads: Social Human Implications of Scientific - Social Human Implications of Scientific Technological Revolution

This title was first published in 1968

List of contents

Foreword by Academician Šorm, Introduction: The Purpose of Change CHAPTER 1 The Nature of the Scientific and Technological Revolution CHAPTER 2 Radical Changes in Work, Skills and Education, CHAPTER 3 Modern Civilization and the Development of Man, CHAPTER 4 New Features of Social Development in the Era of the Scientific and Technological Revolution

About the author

RADOVAN RICHTA, M.A., D.Sc., Corresponding member, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (CAS), head of the interdisciplinary team for research on the social and human implications of the scientific and technological revolution, Institute of Philosophy (CAS), in cooperation with a research team.

Summary

This volume is the results of a 1965 research project. Its aim was to draw, insofar as this was possible, a synthetic picture of the scientific and technological revolution against the background of the two social systems — socialism and capitalism — while also attempting to suggest ways of handling the inevitable social and human issues involved.

Product details

• Authors: Radovan Richta
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138037809
• ISBN: 978-1-138-03780-9
• No. of pages: 372
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society