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The articles in this collection analyse methodological aspects of today's hard sciences and humanities and of applied research in the field of high technology. The authors explore structural and cultural contexts of scientific research, relations between information technologies and our everyday life, as well as relations between innovation and business culture.

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In this book we see scholars attempting to bridge the percieved gap between social and natural sciences. Through detailed observation of past and present events they try to foresee future trends and contribute to the establishment of a new transciplinary paradigm that can help us cope with new types of social challenges. 'Society, Culture & Technology at the Dawn of the 21st Century' is strongly recommended for anyone interested in socio-cultural framework of recent and future scientific and technological progress. -Professor Franc Mali, University of Ljubljana This collection is a methodologically diverse multiplicity of perspectives on the relationships between technology, society, and culture. The authors offer a strong foundation for the collection; a well-grounded and wide-ranging review of literature from classical sociology and philosophy of science to more recent studies of science, technology, and society. The result is a timely, often fascinating, and generally thought-provoking comparative analysis of society, culture and technology as we complete the first decade of the new millennium. -Professor Mike Keen, Director of the Center for a Sustainable Future, Indiana University South Bend, and author of Stalking the Sociological Imagination: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Surveillance of American Sociologists

In this book we see scholars attempting to bridge the percieved gap between social and natural sciences. Through detailed observation of past and present events they try to foresee future trends and contribute to the establishment of a new transciplinary paradigm that can help us cope with new types of social challenges. 'Society, Culture & Technology at the Dawn of the 21st Century' is strongly recommended for anyone interested in socio-cultural framework of recent and future scientific and technological progress. -Professor Franc Mali, University of Ljubljana This collection is a methodologically diverse multiplicity of perspectives on the relationships between technology, society, and culture. The authors offer a strong foundation for the collection; a well-grounded and wide-ranging review of literature from classical sociology and philosophy of science to more recent studies of science, technology, and society. The result is a timely, often fascinating, and generally thought-provoking comparative analysis of society, culture and technology as we complete the first decade of the new millennium. -Professor Mike Keen, Director of the Center for a Sustainable Future, Indiana University South Bend, and author of Stalking the Sociological Imagination: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Surveillance of American Sociologists

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Katarzyna Leszczynska teaches sociology and social anthropology at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. Her scholarly interests focus on religion, gender and social aspects of technology. Janusz Mucha teaches sociology and social anthropology at the same university. His is interested in sociological and anthropological theory, minority issues, Central and Eastern Europe and technoligical rationality.

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