Technology as Cultural Process
Brian Wynne
- 01 Jan 1988
- pp 80-104
TL;DR: Amongst the various approaches to analysing people's attitudes to risks, technologies and their managing institutions, which have developed such a rich texture in recent years, one can see two fundamentally different metaphysics from one or the other of which nearly all approaches originate as mentioned in this paper.
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Abstract: Amongst the various approaches to analysing people’s attitudes to risks, technologies and their managing institutions, which have developed such a rich texture in recent years, one can see two fundamentally different metaphysics from one or the other of which nearly all approaches originate. By metaphysics I mean a closed loop — a cosmology — of taken-for-granted views of human nature and social interaction, of public life, rationality, values, and of ways of observing them which select those aspects which confirm our founding assumptions and faiths.
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