Author: Bernice Cohen
Publisher:
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Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Bernice Cohen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781870386043
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Author: Bernice Cohen
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Bernice Cohen
Publisher:
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: Bepin Behari
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120825932
Category : Science and civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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In the present volume eminent scientists, scholars and philanthropists have joined together to discuss the problems relating to the impact of technological progress on the cultural development of manking. The turmoil created by modern scientific inventions has threatened the very existence of our globe. Will the humanity emerge more secure or will it be submerged once more in the Deluge?

Author: Leslie A. White
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Author: Mischa Titiev
Publisher: New York, Holt
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 696

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to anthropologies three major divisions: physical anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology which are each described and developed in detail, with every attempt is made to integrate the related facets in each field.

Author: Leslie A. White
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Author: Roger Cooter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521227438
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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This study concentrates on the social and ideological functions of science during the consolidation of urban industrial society.

Author: Stephen Gaukroger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192588923
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values—and subsequently moral, political, and social ones—come to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science, Stephen Gaukroger explores how these values were shaped and how they began, in turn, to shape those of society. The core nineteenth- and twentieth-century development is that in which science comes to take centre stage in determining ideas of civilization, displacing Christianity in this role. Christianity had provided a unifying thread in the study of the world, however, and science had to match this, which it did through the project of the unity of the sciences. The standing of science came to rest or fall on this question, which the book sets out to show in detail is essentially ideological, not something that arose from developments within the sciences, which remained pluralistic and modular. A crucial ingredient in this process was a fundamental rethinking of the relations between science and ethics, economics, philosophy, and engineering. In his engaging description of this transition to a scientific modernity, Gaukroger examines five of the issues which underpinned this shift in detail: changes in the understanding of civilization; the push to unify the sciences; the rise of the idea of the limits of scientific understanding; the concepts of 'applied' and 'popular' science; and the way in which the public was shaped in a scientific image.