Russian Studies Political Science And The Philosophy Of Technology

Author : Guoli Liu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666906360
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Studies, Political Science, and the Philosophy of Technology written by Guoli Liu and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents state-of-the-art creative scholarship in political science and area studies with an emphasis on Russia. The contributors, all well-known in their specialties, share the conviction that advancement in the social sciences can only be achieved through plural methodological approaches and interaction with various disciplines. Their work in this collection provides critical analyses of key issues in Russian and post-Soviet studies. It explores the most fruitful ways of studying Russia with particular emphasis on the federal system, politics in the era of Putin, challenges of Russian foreign policy, and Russian attitudes toward democracy. The vagaries of democracy are also explored in articles on Georgia and Turkey. Additionally, this book examines the philosophy of technology with an emphasis on critical theory, eco-domination, and engineering ethics.

Author : Frederic J. Fleron
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 149855038X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Studies and Comparative Politics written by Frederic J. Fleron and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together several of the author’s empirical studies that demonstrate the strength and utility of sociologist Robert Merton’s classic middle-range theory for understanding aspects of both Soviet and post-Soviet Russian politics. Some of those studies demonstrate that testing middle-range social science theory could take place even in the Soviet era when there were significant limitations of access to empirical data, and meaningful field research in the USSR was all but impossible. In the introductory chapter, the author explains the need for and advantages of studying Russian and Soviet politics from the perspective of middle-range social science theory. Then follow three chapters analyzing methodological issues in Soviet/post-Soviet studies. The author presents his six empirical studies employing middle-range social science theories to explore in Russia/USSR dimensions of organizations, ideology and decisionmaking, technology transfer and cultural diffusion, political culture, public opinion and democratization, and congruence of authority patterns in state-society relations. The book concludes with a chapter arguing the advantages of thinking theoretically about Russian and Soviet politics with the establishment of a new epistemic community organized around studies employing middle-range theory. This book presents examples of solutions to long-standing debates between area studies and the academic disciplines and between idiographic and nomothetic approaches to knowledge in the social sciences. In contrast to the tradition of Carnivals and Cockfights in Russian/Soviet area studies since the mid-20th Century, the book offers a new way of approaching the study of Russian politics for the 21st Century.

Author : Shannon Vallor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019085118X
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology written by Shannon Vallor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology gives readers a view into this increasingly vital and urgently needed domain of philosophical understanding, offering an in-depth collection of leading and emerging voices in the philosophy of technology. The thirty-two contributions in this volume cut across and connect diverse philosophical traditions and methodologies. They reveal the often-neglected importance of technology for virtually every subfield of philosophy, including ethics, epistemology, philosophy of science, metaphysics, aesthetics, philosophy of language, and political theory. The Handbook also gives readers a new sense of what philosophy looks like when fully engaged with the disciplines and domains of knowledge that continue to transform the material and practical features and affordances of our world, including engineering, arts and design, computing, and the physical and social sciences. The chapters reveal enduring conceptual themes concerning technology's role in the shaping of human knowledge, identity, power, values, and freedom, while bringing a philosophical lens to the profound transformations of our existence brought by innovations ranging from biotechnology and nuclear engineering to artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and robotics. This new collection challenges the reader with provocative and original insights on the history, concepts, problems, and questions to be brought to bear upon humanity's complex and evolving relationship to technology.

Author : Oleg Kharkhordin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136855106
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Theory and Community Building in Post-Soviet Russia written by Oleg Kharkhordin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits many aspects of current social science theories, such as actor-network theory and the French school of science and technology studies, to test how the theories apply in a specific situation, in this case after 1991 in the city of Cherepovets in Russia, home of Russia’s second biggest steel producer, Severstal. Using political philosophy to analyse the down-to-earth details of the real techno-scientific problems facing the world, the book examines the role of things - and urban infrastructure in particular - in political change. It considers how the city’s infrastructure, including housing, ICT networks, the provision of public utilities of all kinds, has been transformed in recent years; examines the roles of different actors including the municipal authorities, and explores citizens’ differing and sometimes contradictory images of their city. It includes a great deal of new thinking on how communities are built, how common action is initiated to provide public goods, and how the goods themselves - physical things – are a crucial driver of community action and community building, arguably more so than more abstract social and human forces.

Author : Kogan Page
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780749444839
Total Pages : 1170 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Qualifications written by Kogan Page and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of professional, academic and vocational qualifications is ever-changing. The new edition of this highly successful and practical guide provides thorough information on all developments. Fully indexed, it includes details on all university awards and over 200 career fields, their professional and accrediting bodies, levels of membership and qualifications. It acts as an one-stop guide for careers advisors, students and parents, and will also enable human resource managers to verify the qualifications of potential employees.

Author : Markku Kivinen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000226808
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Modernization written by Markku Kivinen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on an original interpretation of social theory and an interdisciplinary approach, this book creates a new paradigm in the Russian studies. Taking a fresh view of Russia’s multiple experiences of modernization, it seeks to explain the Putin era in a completely new way. This book explores the paradoxical and contradictory aspects of Russia, analyzing the energy-dependent economy and hybrid political regime, but also religion, welfare, and culture, and their often complex interrelations. Written by a community of both Western and Russian scholars, this book re-affirms the value of social science when confronting a society that has undergone enormous and costly systematic changes. The Russian elites see modernization narrowly as economic and technological competitiveness. The contributors to this volume see contemporary Russia facing a series of antinomies, which are macro-level dilemmas that cannot be abolished, either by philosophical mediation or by immediate political decisions. As such, they are the tension fields that constitute choices for various competing agencies. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Russian studies, transition studies, sociology, social policy, political science, energy policy, cultural studies, and stratification studies. Professionals involved in energy, ecology, and security policy will also find this publication a rich source.

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Publisher : Peterson's
ISBN 13 : 0768926866
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 440 Great Colleges for Top Students written by and published by Peterson's. This book was released on with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Research Council and Russian Academy of Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309061946
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology Commercialization written by National Research Council and Russian Academy of Sciences and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-01-09 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papersâ€"by American and Russian specialistsâ€"addresses a variety of legal, regulatory, institutional, and financial issues that can promote or hinder technology commercialization. The book is the result of a series of workshops organized by the National Research Council with the Russian Academy of Sciences on commercialization of technologies, particularly those developed at research and educational institutions. Technology Commercialization concludes with a list of actions, programs, and policies which warrant further consideration as Russia tries to improve the success of technology commercialization. This book will be of interest to those concerned with small-business development in post-communist states, university technology management, and comparative technology commercialization.

Author : Kogan Page
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780749441371
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Qualifications written by Kogan Page and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a single volume, the new edition of this guide gives comprehensive coverage of the developments within the fast-changing field of professional, academic and vocational qualifications. career fields, their professional and accrediting bodies, levels of membership and qualifications, and is a one-stop guide for careers advisors, students and parents. It should also enable human resource managers to verify the qualifications of potential employees.

Author : Olga Zvonareva
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783319877358
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health, Technologies, and Politics in Post-Soviet Settings written by Olga Zvonareva and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses a variety of empirical cases on topics including drug development, egg donation, and governance of healthcare facilities, to investigate how actors navigate the uncertainties that permeate the interfaces of health, technologies, and politics in post-Soviet settings and what the implications of their chosen navigation routes are. Contemporary societies are imbued with uncertainties, but the authors focus on settings where uncertainties multiply, making decisions, practises, and relations in everyday life precarious. Two worlds are brought into dialogue throughout the chapters of this book with the aim of facilitating mutual learning from one another - the world of science and technology studies (STS) and the high-income liberal democracies of the West, on one hand, and studies of post-socialism on the other. In so doing, this book encourages critical learning on ensuring the resilience of individual and societal health in situations of profound uncertainties. This timely collection will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners and policy makes in the fields of sociology, biomedicine, political science and public and global health.