Science, Technology and Society: A Sociological Approach is a comprehensive guide to the emergent field of science, technology, and society (STS) studies and its implications for today's culture and society.

• Discusses current STS topics, research tools, and theories
  
• Tackles some of the most urgent issues in current STS studies, including power and culture, race, gender, colonialism, the Internet, cyborgs and robots, and biotechnology
  
• Includes case studies, a glossary, and further reading lists

From the vernacular engineering of Latino car design to environmental analysis among rural women to the production of indigenous herbal cures-groups outside the centers of scientific power persistently defy the notion that they are merely passive recipients of technological products and scientific knowledge. This is the first study of how such "outsiders" reinvent consumer products-often in ways that embody critique, resistance, or outright revolt.

Contributors: Richard M. Benjamin, Miami U; Hank Bromley, SUNY, Buffalo; Massimiano Bucchi, U of Trento, Italy; Carmen M. Concepcisn, U of...

The subject investigated here in 20 contributions intertwines at least a half dozen disciplines and may grow up to be a discipline of its own some day. The contributors are (mostly) academics involved with sociolgy, the media, science & technology, public policy, the environment, and gender studies, among other fields. Uniting the diverse collectio

Science, Technology and Society: A Sociological Approach is a comprehensive guide to the emergent field of science, technology, and society (STS) studies and its implications for today's culture and society.

• Discusses current STS topics, research tools, and theories
  
• Tackles some of the most urgent issues in current STS studies, including power and culture, race, gender, colonialism, the Internet, cyborgs and robots, and biotechnology
  
• Includes case studies, a glossary, and further reading lists