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Technology and Society: Social Networks, Work, and Inequality
Technology-whether crude tools in the Stone Age or smart phones in the twenty-first century-has always found its way into our everyday lives, as we work and play. But how does that technology influence and change our society?
In Technology and Society , a new text in the Themes in Canadian Sociology series, author Anabel Quan-Haase examines those places in which technology and society intersect, connecting the reality of our technological age to issues of social networks, work, and inequality. The text also places an
emphasis on experiential learning, serving as a bridge between abstract, theoretical thinking about technology and real-life events and experiences: issues and examples plucked from readers' daily realities clearly illustrate the history and concepts that form the foundational chapters of the book.
The result is an action-oriented volume, one that initiates curiosity and sparks a desire to know more about technology and society: what the tools we use are, where they come from, and how they are changing our perceptions of ourselves and the relationships we form with others.
In Technology and Society , a new text in the Themes in Canadian Sociology series, author Anabel Quan-Haase examines those places in which technology and society intersect, connecting the reality of our technological age to issues of social networks, work, and inequality. The text also places an
emphasis on experiential learning, serving as a bridge between abstract, theoretical thinking about technology and real-life events and experiences: issues and examples plucked from readers' daily realities clearly illustrate the history and concepts that form the foundational chapters of the book.
The result is an action-oriented volume, one that initiates curiosity and sparks a desire to know more about technology and society: what the tools we use are, where they come from, and how they are changing our perceptions of ourselves and the relationships we form with others.
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276 pages, Paperback
First published October 30, 2012
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May 11, 2018
We used this textbook for a sociology course relating to the Impact of Technology on Society. Several engineering programs across Canada require a course such as this as an elective.
This book was very an easy read for the course. We covered all the chapters during the course and it was easy to read a chapter a week. Our instructor was unhappy with the last chapter of the book that dealt with ethics; he stated that it was lacking in content.
As an engineering student, I found this book to use examples that were a bit outdated considering the time in which it was published. For example, the book used Blackberry as an example for several concepts; I found this odd because the company had been losing significant market share for a while.
Several concepts that are explained in this book were found in areas outside of engineering. For example, the Technology adoption life-cycle discussed in this book was also found (along with Maslow's hierarchy of needs) in my marketing textbook.
All in all, this textbook is all right. It's one of only two textbooks that I read cover-to-cover.
This book was very an easy read for the course. We covered all the chapters during the course and it was easy to read a chapter a week. Our instructor was unhappy with the last chapter of the book that dealt with ethics; he stated that it was lacking in content.
As an engineering student, I found this book to use examples that were a bit outdated considering the time in which it was published. For example, the book used Blackberry as an example for several concepts; I found this odd because the company had been losing significant market share for a while.
Several concepts that are explained in this book were found in areas outside of engineering. For example, the Technology adoption life-cycle discussed in this book was also found (along with Maslow's hierarchy of needs) in my marketing textbook.
All in all, this textbook is all right. It's one of only two textbooks that I read cover-to-cover.
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