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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Abraham Heschel wrote that a philosopher's primary task was not merely to describe and judge the modes and facts of actual human behavior, but also to examine and understand the meaninq of those descriptions and judgements of modes and facts (Bella, 1978). Our values are critically tied to our structures of reasoning and to be sure are not the domain, only, of our philosophic community. While working on a Political science internship for the office of Technologry Transfer at Oregon State University, in l989, it occurred to me that little thought was given to the value dimension of researching, developing and transferring new technology into our public and private economic sectors. In evaluating the decisions to conduct research or to introduce into our public services and private commercial businesses, new technologies, the values underlying those technologies and their particular application must become essential criteria of any proposed economic or other justification scheme. This thesis will examine this observation and its ramifications in a business organizational, social, political and public administrative and philosophic context then offer some recommendations and draw some conclusions. / Graduation date: 1994

The author calls into question the primacy of the optimism/pessimism split within modern discourses on technology and suggests rather that the dominant thematic division in these discourses is that between mastery over and enslavement to technology. Each of these is criticized with respect to the faulty conception of control it implies. The author concludes with a view of technology as a social practice in order to move beyond mastery or enslavement.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Akron, School of Communication, 2007. / "December, 2007." Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed 02/22/2008) Advisor, Young Lin; Committee members, Carolyn Anderson, Heather Walter; Interim School Director, Carolyn Anderson; Dean of the College, James Lynn; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Department of Sociology, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

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Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Long Beach, 1992. / Abstract preceding title page. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-142).

Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Long Beach, 1992. / Abstract preceding title page. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-142).