S.88-56
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
To:
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Senate ?
From: J.W.G.Ivany
Chair, SCAP
Subject:
Canadian Studies - Curriculum ?
Date:
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November17, 1988
Revisions
Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Academic Planning/Senate Committee
on Undergraduate Studies gives rise to the following motion:
MOM
that Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of Governors as set
forth in S.88-56 revisions to the existing CNS courses 390, 391, 490 and 491
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
CENTRE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES
MEMORANDUM
to: ?
Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee
Faculty of Arts
from: Rowly Lorimer, Director
re:
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COURSE CHANGES
date:
30 September 1988
OVERALL RATIONALE:
Canadian Studies wishes to be more explicit in
defining the content of three out of four of CNS
390 and 391 and CNS 490 and 491. This manner of
course identification will bring us closer in line
with the rest of the university and will give
students a sense of the thrust of the program.
The changes are as follows:
FROM: ?
390-3/391-3 Special Canadian Topics
Provides
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for
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an
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intensive ?
exploration ?
of ?
particular topics that illustrate aspects of the
Canadian reality. ?
The course will be taught by
instructors who ?
have a special interest and
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competence in respect of the topics they are
presenting. ?
Usually the topics will be studied
from an interdisciplinary perspective. Topics
will be varied regularly. A student may take two
courses, covering different topics, under this
rubric for separate credit. On the first occasion
the student should register for CNS 390 and on the
next for CNS 391.
Prerequisite: At least 60 credit hours
(Lecture/Tutorial)
TO: ?
390-3 Topics in Canadian Popular Culture
An interdisciplinary examination of selected areas
of Canadian popular culture (such as hockey or
humour). Emphasis will be placed on the
relationship of the selected area to the broader
cultural milieu.
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RATIONALE:
The Centre wishes all majors ti: take a course on
Canadian popular culture. ?
It will help the
student understand regional, nati ' : '
nal, social and
- economic aspects of popular culture. We feel
that an interdisciplinary focus is particularly
appropriate for this topic.
TO: ?
391-3 Special Canadian Topics
An intensive interdisciplinary exploration of
particular topics that illustrate aspects of the
Canadian reality.
RATIONALE:
The course description is a concise Version of the
old calendar description of the course. Unnec-
essary information has been deleted.
FROM: ?
490-3/491-3 Canadian Interdisciplinary Seminar
• An interdisciplinary seminar focusin
g
on selected
themes pertinent to Canada. Presentations will be
given by Canadian Studies faculty, by visiting
scholars, and by participating students. A
student may take two courses, covering different
themes, under this rubric for separate credit. On
the first occasion the student should register for
f:NS 490 and on the next for i::Ns 491
Prerequisite: At least 60 credit hours
(Seminar)
TO: ?
490-3 The Canadian Intellectual Tradition
An interdisciplinary semi nar examining some
of the
major forces that have shaped and continue to
shape Canadian thou
g
ht, expression and society.
Materials and ?
theories will
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be drawn
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from
histcrioqraphy, history,
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philosophy, religion,
politics, political
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eccun':'my, ?
policy
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studies,
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literature
.
, art and sport.
RATIONALE:
The Centre wishes to provide an opportunity for
students to consider what • insi
g hts and
perspectives Canadians have
' :ontributed • to cur
times.
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Through the examination of the roots of
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these contributions students will gain a better
understanding of
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the relation of Canada and ?
Canadians to other countries.
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TO:
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491-3 Technology and Canadian Society
This course examines and assesses technology and
its impact on Canadian society. It concentrates
on 20th century technology and uses a case study
approach examining some broad themes in the study
of technology such as; technological determinism,
technological impact assessment, innovation,
technology as progress, technological dependency,
technological sovereignty, and bias in technology.
RATIONALE:
The role of technology in shaping societies is
substantial. ?
Technology has played a distinctive
role in Canada. Every Canadian Studies student
should have some understanding of the nature of
that role.
Attached please find outlines and bibliographies for 390,
490 and 491.
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SENATE CO1ITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDI!.
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NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FOR}1
1. Calendar Information
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Department: Centre for
Abbreviation Code:
CNS
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Coure Number: 390
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Credit Hours:
?
Vector:
2/1/0_
title of Course:
?
Topics in Canadian Popular Culture
Calendar Description of Course: An interdisciplinary examination of selected areas of
Canadian popular culture (such as hockey or humour). Emphasis will be placed on the re-
lationship of the selected area: to the broader cultural milieu.
Nature of Course lecture\tutorial
Prerequisites
(or special instructions):
60 credit hours
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved:
?
CNS 390 Special Canadian Topics
2. Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered7
once per year
Semester in which the course will first be offered? It has been offered under old title.and
will be offered under iew ite in Jan 1990.
Which of
your present faculty
would
be available to make the propose of er ng
possible?
R. Gruneau, M. Laba (B. Rasporich has indicated an interest in teaching for
3. Objectives of the Course
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us on a visiting basis.)
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1.
To provide a sense of a distinctive Canadian popular culture.
2.
To illustrate the relation between popular cultural expression and the larger
cultural milieu.
3.
To discuss variation within the Canadian community.
4.
To analyze the difference between indigenous and imported popular culture.
4. Budgetar
y
and Space Requirements
..
(for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
Saf 1
Library
?
continued acquisitions
Audio Visual
Space
Equipment
5. Approval?
Date:
Department Chairman
Dean
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Chairman, S
SCUS 73-34b:-
(When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.
ALIaCh courfie outline).
SENATE
CO1TT)
ON UN1)ERCRAO1ATh
STUDIIS
NLW
COUR
SE PROEOSAL K
opN
Dapartmenttre for Can Jan Studies
Credit Hours:
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Vector: ?
0-3-0
Calendar Description of Course:
An
interdisciplinary seminar examining some of the major
forces that have shaped and continue to shape Canadian society. Materials and theories
will be drawn from historiogräphy, history, philosophy, religion, political economy, lit-
erature, and sport.
Nature of Course
5vl
'7a
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Prerequisites (or special instructions):
at least 60 credit hours
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course i
s
approved:
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.. none
2. Schedulifl
How frequently will the course. be
offered? ?
once per yer
fere
d'
1
as been ffered and i1\be a
Semester in which the course will first be of
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in anuary
Which
of your present faculty
'
ud be available
to
make the proposed o ering
possible? ?
R. Mathews
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P. BuitenhtiS
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•lcctive8_of_ the
Course
It is intended to assist the student to understand the nature of scholarly inquiry, inde-
pendent research, and the relation of disciplines to methodologies which, in turn, relate
to ideology and woridview. It should assist the student primarily, of course, to fashion
ideas about the nature of Canada's origins and present identity in the world.
4.
Budgetar
y
and Space Requiremen
ts
.. (for information only)
What additional resources will be required
in the following areas
Faculty
Staff
Library continual acquisitions
Audio Visual
Space
Equipment
Calendar
Information
•reviation Code: CN.S. Courue. Number490
Title of Course: Canadian Intellectual Tradition
5,
Approval
Date:_________
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fl^4
leg
Department Chairman
/-%
-
Dean
?
Chairman, SCUS
ScUS 73-34b:-
(When completing
this
form, for instructions see
Memorandum
SCUS
73-34a.
Aitach couro.e outline).
The Centre for Canadian Studies
CN.S. 490
Canadian Intellectual Tradition
S p ring 1989.
Instructor: R. Mathews
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and
This is a thirteen week course. It will deal with some major
ideas that have contributed and do contribute to a sense of
Canadian identity, Canadian character, and what we speak of when
we s
p
eak of 'Canadian attitudes', responses, assumptions, etc.
The seminar will
begin
wi:h some very wide ranging questions
involving (appant1y) new questions involving 'unified field
theories', creation, and the place of humanity in the scheme of
things. That beginning will be engaged in simply to prepare for
concepts of community that relate to the beginnings and development
of Canada as we know it. Naturally, any sense of national group
identity relates to concepts of community, of the individual,
the nation, and humankind in general. The course will consider
(despite time limitations) some ideas peculiar to smaller
communities that help to make up the large Canadian community.
The course is multi-disciplinary. It is intended to assist the
student to understand the nature of inquiry, independent research,
the relation of disciDlines to peculiar methodologies which, In
turn, relate to ideology and woridview. It should assist the
student, moreover, to learn how to use the overlapping nature of
disciplines to deepen possibilitiesT inquiry. It might assist
students, furthermore, to learn that in the application of
'disciples' to Canadian materials may show that approaches to
material can be modified by the material approached.
Finally, the student may wish to consider whether the complexity
of forces which we call Canada shapes and conditions how we see
and define history, philosophy, religion, political economy,
literature, and community. The student might wish to question
the relation of disciplines and the unity of a country's intellectual
history.
Because of the wide-ranging sweep of the course, which - at the
same time - struggles for precision of definition and specific
focus, material both written and gathered by the instructor will
be made available to students: it will be an important part of
the course. Students will be expected to make small oral
presentations directed at specific works and ideas; and they will
be invited to present some small papers and engage in larger term
essay writing.
Regular attendance is mandatory since the success of the course
depends upon a genuine struggle for and with ideas in which all
members of the class participate and contribute.
Centre for Canadian Studies
cr.s 490
Canadian interdisciplinary Se:.inr
S p
rin g 1959
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;. Mathews ?
Canadian intellectual
Tradition
The course is set out here in packages which, obviously, approximate
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closely the week to week direction of study.
1.
Introduction. O
p ening Remarks.
Major dialectic in Canadian society - past and present. Erief
consideration of some recent theorizin
g
about
the nature of the
universe -mystics and physicists and mathematicians. Possible
relation to human societies.With relation to Canada, forces in
conflict and the jdeolo
?
of forces. Free trade historicall
y
and ?
in the present: fundamental definitions. Implications of dialectic
for definitions of hisoriography and es
p
ecially historiography as
it relates to Canada. The meaning and use of historical inquiry.
(Students should read something about histôriograhy: Herbert
Butterfield, ?an on His Past; Carl Berger, The
. Writinç of
-Ca
nadian
history; E.. Carl', What is istorv; Beaulieu, )eme1in, Bernier,
"Jistoriographie Canadi.enne ou 1esondements de la cohience
nationale", in Guide d'istoire du Canada; or another suitable title
of the students own choosing.)*(further texts: see bibliography)
2.
A
consideration of Leslie Armour and Elizabeth Trott, The
Face of Reason, An Essay on Philosophy and Culture in Englisanada
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-193
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, with es p
ecial attention to "3ackground and Themes", secor.s
on john Watson, and "The idea of Reason and the Canadian Situation".
*(?er texts:
see bibliography)
3.
A consideration of philosophical ideas described in Armour
and Trott in Canadian literature in English, especially as evidenced
in Charles G. D. Roberts, E. J. Pratt, and 'W. D. Lighthall. Philosophy
as developed in Quebec. Particularly see Armour and Trott, Cha
p
ter 14,
"Faith and Reason",. Yvan Latnonde, istoriograhie de la DhilosoDhie
au Québec 1853-19.71. *(Further' texts: see bib1Iorpshy)
4.
Canada and Im
p
erial History. In Theories of Imperialism, (ed.)
Tom Kemp, Chapters V, Vi, lx. "Lenin and the Contradictions
of Ca p
italism", "Shuinpeter: Capitalism vs. Imperialism", "Theories of
Im
p
erialism: Objections and a re-statement". Garth Stevenson, "Federalism
and the political economy of the Canadian State", in (ed.) Leo Pan±tch,
The Canadian State. George Parkin, Im
p
erial Federation; Carl Eerger (ed.),
Imt'erialism and Nationalism, 1884_±9l4. *(Further texts: see bib1iograhy)
5.
Canadians view-
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n their history. 'The Conservative Vision. Donald
Creighton and George Grant. George '.Ho
g
an, The Conservative in
Canaca. Gad Eorowitz, "Conservatism, Liberalism, and Socialism n
Canadian Irer
p
rtaticn", in Canadian Labour in Politics. A look at
. the 'new conservatjs':Jadsen ?iie, "The iew
Aid
Paradigrri",in
Etler and J. Pare, Aid Ev Entertrse, T
he Acar Smath Insitte,
London, 19E4; and Fraser Institute rublications (see bibliography).
Canadian interdisci p
linary Seminar
Canadian intellectual
Tradition ?
(page two)
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.Canadiar.s.viewing their history. The Liberal Vision. J. W.
Dafoe, Canada
an
American Nation. I.T. :obhouse,Liberali!;
i.S. Till, On liber
ty
; F. Underhill, In Search of Canadian Liberalism;
P.E. Trudeau, Federalism and the French Canadians. Consideration
of the ideological stance of such writers as Walter N. Sage, A.R.T:.
Lower, Northrop Frye. *(Further texts: see bibliography)
7. ?
Canadians viewing their history. The !'arxist Vision and Liberal
Anti-imperialism. Stanley Ryerson , Une9ual Union. Herschel
:ardin, A Nation Unaware; Leandre ergeron, The :istory of Quebec;
.Harold Is arid radical theory. *(Further texts: see bibliography)
effect on the
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-
the Canadian -
ariada;
p
eter Slater,
Brown,
Canada in
esp. chapte±s 5, 6,
8. - Religion in Can Its character and its
community. John Webster Grant, The Churches and
Experience; H.H. Walsh, The Chriian Church in
(ed.), Religion and Culture in Canada; George W.
the Ma
kin
g. Peter L. Berger, The Sacred Canopy,
7.
9.
Reliiori,eCOflOrnc forms and social structures. Max weber
t
The
Protestant E- c and the Spirit of capitalism
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. Sta''fOrd
Protestant
.eid (ed.), The
Tradition",
Scottish Tradition
and "The
in Canada,
Scot as
esp.
Buiinessman".
"The
F.X.
Scctish
Garneau,
?
.
(from his) Y.istcr
y
of Canada, introductory sections arid selected
excerpts.
*( Fu
r
t
:er texts: see. bibliography)
10.
R
eligion,-economic-fo
rms
and social structures.
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Selections
from Rmsa
T
Cook (ed.
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), Frencti Canadian
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tioa1i;GeOrge
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Garit, Lament for a Nation. :ert Aquin, "The Cultural Fatigue of
French Canada", in ContemporaY_Quebec Critici. Two
ritiOflS
in
conflict: William hIiby, The GoI5én ; Jules-Paul Tardivel, For
Wy Country (Pour la patrie);
-
Ral
ph
-
rior,
Con
The Tari From Glengar;
Lionel GrU1X, The *ViedEe of Iron (Apel de ii race) Hubert Aquin,
Procnain
. ?
pisoOC.
*(rurtfler texts: see
oioiograpnY)
11.
Theviews presented from literature: mission, decolonization,
and the search for individual place. )argaret Laurence, T:-.
Diviners; Irene Saird, Waste :eritg
.
. Wallace Clement, "The
Crporate Elite,
the
capitalist class, arid the Canadian S-ate," in
Leo P-anitch (ed.), The Canadian State.
*( F u r
ther texts: se biuiography
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
NEW COURSE PROPOSAL
FORM
Aftcalendar Information
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Department:
Centre
for Canadian Studies
Abbreviation Code:
CNS ?
Course. Number:
491 ?
Credit hours: _
3 ?
Vector:0-3-0
Title of Course:
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Technology and Canadian Society
Calendar Description
of Course:
This course introduces students to the examination and
assessment of technology and it,s impact on Canadian society. It concentrates on 20th century
technology using a case study approach examining such broad themes as technological deter-
minism, impact assessment, innovation, dependency, sovereignty, and bias in technology.
Nature of Course
seminar
Prerequisites (or
special instructions):
at least 60 credit hours
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved:
2. Scheduling
1-low frequently will the course be offered?
Semester in which the course will first be
Which of your present faculty wc
'
u)d be ava
' possible?
E. Bernard, J. Walkley
Objectives of the Course
once per vear
offered?
as
been offered and will again in
Jativar
890
?
'
Liable to maKe tie proposed offering
To provide an understanding of the role technology has played and is playing in Canadian
society, the Canadian economy and Canadian politics.
4. Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
S
af
I
Library
Audio Visual
Space
Equipment
no special .
additional requirements.
5. Approval
Date: ?
(
c7
• ______
Department Chairman
___z
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:::i-
Dean ?
C airman,
SCUS
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73-34b:-- (When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.
CENTRE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES
CN.S.
TECHNOLOGY AND CANADIAN SOCIETY
OBJECTIVES;
This course will help students examine and assess technology
and its impact on Canadian society. The course concentrates
on 20th century technology and uses a case study approach to
some of the broad themes in the study of technology; such as
technological determinism (Can we control technology or is
it autonomous?), technological Impact assessment, innova-
tion, technology as progress, technological dependency,
technological sovereignty, and bias in technology. One case
is from each of the following areas: communications, trans-
portation, agriculture, resource industries and micro-
electronics.
PREVIOUSLY TAUGHT:
1 - 1987
3 - 1987
3 - 1988
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Chris de Bresson, Understanding Technological Change, Black
Rose Books, Montreal, 1987.
Arnold Pacey,
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The Culture
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of Technology, MIT Press,
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Cambridge, 1983.
Robert Page, ?
NortherPeve1opment: The Canadian Dilemma, ?
McClelland and Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 1986.
Barry Wilson, beyond the Harvest: ?
Canadian Grain at the
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Crossroads, Western Producer Prairie Books, Saskatoon, 1981.
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CN.S 490_3
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E.Bernard
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Week b
y
Week, the course will cover these topics:
1 . Introduction - What is technology? Technology and the social
sciences. Science and technology as an integral part of Canadian
culture.
2.
Science Policy - the evolution of the Canadian government
policy on science and technology. The role of private versus
public sector in research and development, technological
sovereignty, technology and political dec5ion-making.
3.
and 4. Transportation - Case study: the railways. Railways
and economic development, social impact of technological change,
steam to diesel/electric to electric.
S. and 5. Communications - Case study: telecommunications.
Concept of natural monopoly, centralization versus
decentralization, regulation and deregulation.
7. and 8. Resource Industry - Case study: Northern Pipeline
Development, resource industries and technological sovereignty,
technology and progress, technology and the North.
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9. and 10. Agriculture - Case study: prairie grain farming, farm
technology, techniques and methods of cultivation, technology and
productivity.
11. and 12. Microelectronics - Case study: computing in Canada
from Feruit to IBM, government policy and microelectronics,
sunrise/sunset industries, technological sovereignty, social
impact technological change.
13.
Social decision-making and technology - technological
assessment, appropriate technology, technology
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