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Technological Determinism: A Critique of Convergence Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Reinhard John Skinner
Reinhard John Skinner
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Convergence theorists enjoy an almost unique intellectual position: they are supported by both academics and non-academics without really having been subject to a comprehensive analytical examination. Theirs is an hypothesis encompassing many, if not all, spheres of so-ciology, and applicable to the whole of the industrialised world. By implication it also involves the future of all the industrialising nations. It is this very breadth of scope which has denied it the enquiry it deserves.

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Social Convergence
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 1976 , pp. 2 - 27
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1976

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