Sociology 2280 Lecture Notes

Lecture Notes from:

Volti, Rudi. 2014. Society and Technological Change. 7th edition. New York, NY: Worth Publishers.

The ideas and examples referenced below are notes compiled by Robert Keel from his reading of Volti, Rudi. 2014. Society and Technological Change. 7th edition. Worth Publishers: New York, NY. They are intended for classroom use. See also: Supplementary Notes

Chapter 1: The Nature of Technology
Chapter 2: Winners and Losers: The Differential Effects of Technological Change
Chapter 3: The Sources of Technological Change
Chapter 4: Scientific Knowledge and Technological Advance
Chapter 5: The Diffusion of Technology
Chapter 18: Technology and Its Creators: Who's in Charge of Whom?
Chapter 19: Organizations and Technological Change
Chapter 20: Governing Technology
Chapter 6: Technology, Energy, and the Environment
Chapter 7: Medical and Biological Technologies
Chapter 8: Genetic Technologies
Chapter 9: Work in Nonindustrial Societies
Chapter 10: Technology and Jobs: More of One and Less of the Other?
Chapter 11: Technological Change and Life on the Job
Chapter 15: Weapons and Their Consequences
Chapter 16: The Era of Smart Weapons
Chapter 17: How New Weapons Emerge--And How They May be Contained
Chapter 12: Printing
Chapter 13: The Electronic Media
Chapter 14: The Internet Age