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This book compares resistance to technology across time, nations, and technologies. Three post-war examples - nuclear power, information technology, and biotechnology - are used in the analysis. The focus is on post-1945 Europe, with comparisons made with the USA, Japan, and Australia. Instead of assuming that resistance contributes to the failure of a technology, the main thesis of the book is that resistance is a constructive force in technological development, giving technology its particular shape in a particular context. Whilst many people still believe in the positive contribution made by science and technology, many have become sceptical. By exploring the idea that modernity creates effects that undermine its own foundations, forms and effects of resistance are explored in various contexts. The book presents a unique interdisciplinary study, including contributions from historians, sociologists, psychologists, and political scientists.

Biotechnology --- Information technology --- Nuclear energy --- Technology assessment --- Biotechnologie --- Technologie de l'information --- Energie nucléaire --- Technologie --- Social aspects --- Congresses --- Aspect social --- Congrès --- Evaluation --- Congresses. --- Energie nucléaire --- Congrès --- Europe --- Technology assessment - Congresses. --- Technology assessment - Europe - Congresses. --- Nuclear energy - Social aspects - Congresses. --- Information technology - Social aspects - Congresses. --- Biotechnology - Social aspects - Congresses. --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Assessment of technology --- Technological forecasting --- Technological innovations --- Technology and civilization --- Technology and state --- Atomic energy --- Atomic power --- Energy, Atomic --- Energy, Nuclear --- Nuclear power --- Power, Atomic --- Power, Nuclear --- Force and energy --- Nuclear physics --- Power resources --- Nuclear engineering --- Nuclear facilities --- Nuclear power plants

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Biotechnology --- 839 Technologie --- #SBIB:316.334.5U32 --- #SBIB:316.334.5U34 --- #SBIB:35H434 --- #SBIB:042.IO --- Sociologie van de landbouw --- Sociologie van stad en platteland: milieuproblematiek --- Beleidssectoren: milieubeleid en ruimtelijke ordening --- 839 Technologie en infrastructuur

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Mass media --- Biotechnology --- Social aspects --- Public opinion --- 839 Technologie --- -Mass media --- -Biotechnology --- -#SBIB:316.23H2 --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Sociologie van de wetenschappen --- Social aspects. --- Public opinion. --- #SBIB:316.23H2 --- 839 Technologie en infrastructuur --- Biotechnology - Europe - Public opinion --- Mass media - Europe --- Biotechnology - Social aspects

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This volume brings together the full range of modalities of social influence - from crowding, leadership, and norm formation to resistance and mass mediation - to set out a challenge-and-response 'cyclone' model. The authors use real-world examples to ground this model and review each modality of social influence in depth. A 'periodic table of social influence' is constructed that characterises and compares exercises of influence in practical terms. The wider implications of social influence are considered, such as how each exercise of a single modality stimulates responses from other modalities and how any everyday process is likely to arise from a mix of influences. The book demonstrates that different modalities of social influence are tactics that defend, question, and develop 'common sense' over time and offers advice to those studying in political and social movements, social change, and management.

Social influence. --- Influence (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Prestige --- Social pressure

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