Technology, technological determinism and the transformational model of social activity

Contributions to Social Ontology

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 32-49

  Lawson, Clive ^a,b  

^a GIRTON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203607473     Document Type: Chapter

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