Technology, Culture and Change

Ian Malcolm Taplin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

282 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-0322-5 (ISBN)

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This book examines the emergence of capitalism and the ideologies surrounding its inception and subsequent progress; how markets are created and organized; and how technology is embedded socially, not only providing tangible innovations that transform our lives but also signifying changes in our self-identity. It analyses how industrialism in the 19th century resulted in the change from a production-based society to one that became consumer oriented in the 20th century; what such changes entailed for the nature of the family; and how modern consumers use material goods as part of fluid identity creation. Post-industrialism has often resulted in social and cultural polarization, with increasing opportunity gaps between the educated and less educated, rural, and urban populations, and the skilled versus unskilled. Recent technological innovations surrounding artificial intelligence raise even more questions regarding how work is structured, and the cultural responses to such changes. This book relies upon extensive historical data and provides an integrative discussion of how technology shapes cultural change, whilst also being a product of purposive human behaviour.

Ian Malcolm Taplin is Professor of Sociology, Management and International Studies at Wake Forest University, USA, and Visiting Professor at Kedge Business School, France, where he has taught business strategy in the wine MBA programme. At Wake Forest, he teaches courses on business and society, global capitalism and technology, culture and change. His research interests are widespread, and he has authored books on the history of the North Carolina wine industry (The Modern American Wine Industry: Market Formation and Growth in North Carolina, 2011), the growth of luxury goods (The Evolution of Luxury, 2020) and iconic wines in the Napa Valley (The Napa Valley Wine Industry, 2021). Educated at the Oxford College of Architecture, UK, the University of York (BA), UK, the University of Leicester (MPhil), UK, and Brown University (PhD), USA, his background is in historical social science.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Technik
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-0364-0322-X / 103640322X
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-0322-5 / 9781036403225
Zustand	Neuware