Sociology & Anthropology · Sociology of Religion, Science & Technology
A topic within Sociology of Religion, Science & Technology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Sociology & Anthropology.
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Langdon Winner
Argues that technical artefacts can themselves embody political arrangements -- Robert Moses's low bridges, designed to keep buses of poor and black New Yorkers off certain parkways, being the famous case -- so choosing a technology is often already choosing a politics.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Melvin Kranzberg
Sets out six laws of the history of technology, chief among them that technology is neither good nor bad, nor is it neutral, because its human, social and environmental consequences depend entirely on the context into which it is introduced.
link checked 17 Sept 2026