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ERIC Number: EJ584572
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0926-7220
On Social and Material Aspects of Technological Control.
Herfel, William E.
Science and Education, v8 n1 p55-62 Jan 1999
Suggests that Hugh Lacey's example of a clear-cut distinction between material and social constraints or possibilities in the Green Revolution is misleading. Proposes a material analysis of the control situation placed within the material framework of the social structure within which the control system is employed. (Author/WRM)
Descriptors: Epistemology, Higher Education, Objectivity, Science Education, Scientific Principles, Scientific Research, Social Values, Technology, Theories, Values
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Materialism; Nature
Note: Special issue on Values in Science and in Science Education. For related articles, see SE 561 327-334.