Cultures of Control

This collection explores the history of control by looking at a variety of cultural forms, practices and beliefs.

List of contents

List of Figures, Preface, List of Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Part 1: Conventional Notions of Culture and Original Modes of Control, Part 2: Managing Machines, Index

About the author

Levin, Miriam R.

Summary

This collection of essays explores the history of control by looking at a variety of cultural forms, practices, and beliefs. These ideas are examined critically, not only in the light of the possibilities which control technologies seem to offer for resolving human problems, but also the contradictory moral, political, and economic consequences they have had. The discussion takes into account the important modes in which humans have cast their organizational efforts: political, social, sychological, economic, and legal. It also takes a longue durée view of the history of control, looking back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and establishes the continuities in the twentieth century as a transatlantic phenomenon.

Product details

• Assisted by: Miriam R. Levin (Editor), Levin Miriam R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.05.2000
• EAN: 9789058230126
• ISBN: 978-90-5823-012-6
• No. of pages: 294
• Weight: 748 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine; Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Anthropology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, History of engineering and technology, Impact of science & technology on society, History of engineering & technology, Impact of science and technology on society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies