technicism

  • 11scientific management — A leading example of technicism and a theory of work behaviour based on the highly influential and controversial writings of Frederick William Taylor (1856 1915). Taylorism sought to eradicate the industrial inefficiency and loss of leadership… …

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  • 12Sociologie du Travail — A sociology of work, associated with the writings of certain French sociologists of the 1950s and 1960s, which provided at the time a refreshing critique of the factory bound perspective of mainstream (mostly Anglo Saxon) industrial sociology.… …

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  • 13Taylor, Frederick William — (1856 1915) The founder of scientific management , who developed controversial theories of work study and industrial efficiency, in the conflict ridden American steel industry at the end of the nineteenth century. Taylor achieved national renown… …

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  • 14technological society — Some writers argue that there is a distinctive type of society, typically emergent from various forms of industrialism , in which technology and a technocracy increasingly determine the nature of institutions and change. Optimistic versions… …

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  • 15Veblen, Thorstein Bunde — (1857 1929) A leading social critic of American industrialism, whose writings inspired so called institutional economics, and influenced figures such as John Kenneth Galbraith and C. Wright Mills. The son of Norwegian immigrants, Veblen held… …

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  • 16ТЕХНИЦИЗМ — англ. technicism; нем. Technizismus. Установка в оценке техники, исходящая из представлений об автономии технической рациональности, ее трансцендентной сущности, способности к саморазвитию и определяющем характере воздействия техники на общество …

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  • 17tech´ni|cist — tech|ni|cism «TEHK nuh sihzm», noun. excessive emphasis on practical results or technical methods and procedures: »technicism which places central value on what can be measured (New York Times). –tech´ni|cist, noun …

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  • 18tech|ni|cism — «TEHK nuh sihzm», noun. excessive emphasis on practical results or technical methods and procedures: »technicism which places central value on what can be measured (New York Times). –tech´ni|cist, noun …

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