Technological Invention: Post-Modernism and Social Structure

Technology in Society

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 195-205

  Collyer, Fran M ^a  

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ANTIMATERIALISM; CARTESIAN DUALISM; POST-MODERMISM; REIFICATION; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0031455567     PISSN: 0160791X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-791X(96)00064-4     Document Type: Article

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