Abstract
The scientific and technological revolution is not an unqualified good — though those who theorise it have presented it simply as a new aspect, or stage, of a universally beneficial ‘progress’. The ‘modernisation’ process, in which technological development plays a central role, has a widely differing impact. Whereas the central dynamic is economic, the speakers all laid emphasis on the wider cultural, socio-economic and political repercussions of this ‘revolution’ in the sphere of production.
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Gonzalez, M., del Urbano, S.C., Mesa, R. (1984). The Scientific and Technological Revolution: its Impact on Urban and Rural Societies. In: Gonzalez, M., del Urbano, S.C., Mesa, R. (eds) Economy and Society in the Transformation of the World. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07247-7_5
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