Lecture Notes from:

Society and Technological Change, Rudi Volti, 6th edition, Worth Publishers, 2010

The pages referenced below are notes compiled by Robert Keel and Shannon Mayer in their reading of Volti's, Society and Technological Change, 6th edition, Worth Publishers, 2010. They are intended for classroom use.

• Chapter 1: The Nature of Technology
• Chapter 2: Winners and Losers: The Differential Effects of Technological Change
• Chapter 3: The Sources of Technological Change
• Chapter 4: Scientific Knowledge and Technological Advance
• Chapter 5: The Diffusion of Technology
• Chapter 6: Technology, Energy, and the Environment
• Chapter 7: Medical and Biological Technologies
• Chapter 8: Genetic Technologies
• Chapter 9: Work in Nonindustrial Societies
• Chapter 10: Technology and Jobs: More of One and Less of the Other?
• Chapter 11: Technological Change and Life on the Job
• Chapter 12: Printing
• Chapter 13: The Electronic Media
• Chapter 14: Weapons and Their Consequences
• Chapter 15: How New Weapons Emerge--And How They May be Contained
• Chapter 16: Technology and Its Creators: Who's in Charge of Whom?
• Chapter 17: Organizations and Technological Change
• Chapter 18: Government and the Control of Technology