Technology, Culture, Education: Further reading
From Studyplace
This page was composed by Aaron Hung on the basis for the lectures notes as they were in the Summer 2008. I want to thank him for the work. I am making some changes for the Summer 2009. The notes on the main web site for the course will generally be more up to date.
Everyone is welcome to use and edit these pages, perhaps on the basis of your own notes (since sometimes I do not follow my own notes).
If you have any suggestions for reading in this area, please feel free to share them.
Class Outline
- Technology: possibility and determination?
- (Ethno-)Methodology for (de)constructing human production
- Human (dis-)abilities: expansions through tools and institutions
- Hoes, plows and familial strategies
- Irrigation: Power and social structure
- The power of the printed word
- Possibilities in print: Play and control
- Industrialization I: The imagination of the machines
- Industrialization II: The experience of machines
- Living with the bomb
- The body and the machine
- Further reading
Further reading
- Attali, J. (1985). Noise: The political economy of music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816612870
- Bateson, G. (1985). Steps to an ecology of mind. New York: Jason Aronson. ISBN 0226039056
- Berger, P. L., & Luckmann, T. (1966). The social construction of reality. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0385058985
- Boorstin, D. J. (1991). The discoverers. New York: H.N. Abrams. ISBN 0394726251
- Carlyle, T. (1829) Sign of the times. Edinburgh Review
- de Certeau, M. (1984). The practice of everyday life. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520236998
- Diamond, J. M. (1997). Guns, germs, and steel: The fates of human societies (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 0393061310
- Fleck, L. (1979) The genesis and development of a scientific fact. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226253252
- Friedal, R. (2007) A culture of improvement: Technology and the western millennium. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 0262062623
- Garfinkel, H., Lynch, M., & Livingston, E. (1981). The work of a discovering science construe with materials from the optically discovered pulsar. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 11(2), 131-158.
- Geertz, C. (1975). The interpretation of cultures: Selected essays. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 0465097197
- Goody, J. (1977). The domestication of the savage mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521292425
- Hardacre, H. (1999) Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan. University of California Press. ISBN 0520216547. Very similar to Rapp's book, plus interesting media and religious analysis.
- Hutchins, E. (1995). Cognition in the wild. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 0262581469
- Jordan, B. (1978). Birth in four cultures: A crosscultural investigation of childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States. Montreal: Eden Press Women's Publications.
- Kaplan, A. (1964). The conduct of inquiry: Methodology for behavioral science. San Francisco: Chandler Pub. Co. ISBN 0765804484
- Kaufman, F. (1944) Methodology of the social sciences. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Klein, M. (2008) The power makers: Steam, electricity, and the men who invented modern America. London: Bloomsbury Press. ISBN 1596914122
- Kuhn, T. S. (1962). The structure of scientific revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226458083
- Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors we live by. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226468011
- Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the social: An introduction to actor-network-theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199256055
- Latour, B. (1987). Science in action: How to follow scientists and engineers through society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674792912
- Lave, J., & Wenger, E. (1991). Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521423740
- Leroi, A. M. (2005) Mutants: On genetic variety and the human body. New York: Penguin Group. ISBN 0142004820
- Levi-Strauss, C. (1968) The savage mind. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press ISBN 0226474844
- Lord, A. B. (1960). The singer of tales. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674002830
- Marx, L. (2000) The machine in the garden: Technology and the pastoral ideal in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Noble, D. F. (1977). Americaby design: Science, technology, and the rise of corporate capitalism (1st ed.). New York: Knopf. ISBN 0195026187
- Pratkanis, A. R., & Aronson, E. (2001). Age of propaganda: The everyday use and abuse of persuasion (Rev. ed.). New York: W.H. Freeman. ISBN 080507403
- Pickering, A. (1999) Constructing quarks: A sociological history of particle physics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226667995
- Rancière, J. (1991). The ignorant schoolmaster: Five lessons in intellectual emancipation (K. Ross, Trans.). Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0804719691
- Rifkin, J. (2000). The age of access: The new culture of hypercapitalism, where all of life is a paid-for experience. New York: J.P. Tarcher/Putnam. ISBN 1585420824
- Scollon, R., & Scollon, S. B. K. (2004). Nexus analysis: Discourse and the emerging internet. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415320623
- Scribner, S., & Cole, M. (1981). The psychology of literacy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 1583484396
- Seife, C. (2000). Zero: The biography of a dangerous idea. New York: Viking. ISBN 0140296476
- Street, B. V. (1995).Social literacies: Critical approaches to literacy in development, ethnography, and education. New York: Longman ISBN 0582102219
- Suchman, L. A. (1987). Plans and situated actions: The problem of human-machine communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521337399
- Varenne, H., & McDermott, R. (1998). Successful failure: The school America builds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. ISBN 0813391296
- Watson, J. D. (1980). The double helix: A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA. New York: Atheneum.
- Weber, M. (2001). The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. London: Routledge.


Except where