<span>Reviews of the 1st Edition: "....This book is a welcome addition to the sociology of technology, a field whose importance is increasingly recognised." - Sociology"....sets a remarkably high standard in breadth of coverage, in scholarship, and in readability and can be recommended to the genera
The social shaping of technology
- Publisher
- Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
xvii, 462 pages : 24 cm
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