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Sustainable technology: Beyond fix and fixation
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posted on 2023-05-28, 01:01
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Aidan Davison
Aidan Davison
This chapter introduces social theory of technology. After outlining the limitations of the two most common explanations of technology - technology as tools or tyrants - the chapter explores the benefits of analysing technology as social practice.
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Publication title
Controversies in Environmental Sociology
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132
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1 876682 63 9
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Published
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Cambridge & Melbourne
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ecoefficiency
environmentalism
instrumentalism
technological determinism
sustainability
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