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Technology as a Subject of Comparative Studies: The Case of Photography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

W. G. L. De Haas
W. G. L. De Haas
Affiliation:
International Institute for Aerial Survey and Earth Sciences, The Netherlands
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Western sociology, which mirrors the dynamic development of modern industrialised and urbanised society, has not escaped the need for radical division of work; and many of the social institutions of Western society have been made subjects of sociological specialisation. These treat various kinds of human activity as fixed behaviour patterns which, up to a point, exist in their own right but cannot be divorced from their social background. A society cannot be understood without examining its specific institutions; conversely, these can be understood only in the context of that society.

Type
The Sociology of Technology and of Crime
Information
Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , July 1979 , pp. 362 - 371
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1979

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