Technology in Everyday Life: Conceptual Queries

Accelerated material-technical change is the cause of environmental damage. In the social sciences, the dearth of adequate concepts for obdurate reality, both natural & artificial, is one of the causes for a certain helplessness vis-a-vis this problem. Here, a series of conceptual issues are dis...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal for the theory of social behaviour 1988-06, Vol.18 (2), p.219-237
1. Verfasser: JOERGES, BERNWARD
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Accelerated material-technical change is the cause of environmental damage. In the social sciences, the dearth of adequate concepts for obdurate reality, both natural & artificial, is one of the causes for a certain helplessness vis-a-vis this problem. Here, a series of conceptual issues are discussed, & analytical strategies where "things" are taken seriously are advocated. It is also shown that the nature of the problem does not allow for unified conceptual solutions; rather, a directed eclecticism is suggested, opening up disciplinary approaches to the "sciences of the artificial" on the one hand, & literary representations of everyday life experience on the other. 34 References. AA
ISSN:0021-8308
1468-5914
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5914.1988.tb00124.x