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Scientism and Technocracy in the Twentieth Century : The Legacy of Scientific Management by Richard G. Olson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Scientism, or the application of methods, attitudes, and concepts drawn from the natural sciences to human activities and social policy formation, is a pervasive feature of modern life, and it is one which has immense impact upon virtually all aspects of our private and public lives. This work explores the impact of Scientific Management, a movement initiated at the beginning of the twentieth century by the mechanical engineer, Frederick Winslow Taylor, in spreading scientistic attitudes through its appropriation by technical experts (technocrats) who have played a central and growing role in formulating public policies, not just in the United States, but throughout the world. It explores the movement of Scientific Management out of its initial American industrial context into progressive politics in the United States, into the policies of the Third Reich, those of the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, into Cold War policy formation in both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R , and into those of contemporary China and the European Union, with short but important excursions into France, Sweden, Japan, and the developing world. Moreover it also explores some of the aesthetic dimensions of sc
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Richard G. Olson
- Publisher
- Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781498525718
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Technology, Science, History