Technology and society : Symposium ICOHTEC, Kaluga, 1976 / ICOHTEC

- PREFACE. - PROGRAMME OF THE SYMPOSIUM. - OPENING SESSION: - Inaugural adress of S.V. Shukhardin, Chairman of the Organizing Comittee. -Inaugural adress of V.N. Petrovski, Chairman of the Municipal Executive Comittee of Kaluga. - Inaugural address of L. Bulferetti, President of ICOHTEC. - 1ST. THEME: INTERRELATIONSHIP AND RECIPROCAL INFLUENCE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY. - Eugenius Olszewski, Technology, workd and man. - Melvin Kranzberg, Technology and human labor. - Eberhard Wächtler, Gedanken zur Entwicklung des Verhältnisses Mensch-Technik im unmittelbaren Arbeitsprozess. - A. A. Kuzin, Forms and methods of production organization and man's changing role in production. - Siegfried Richter, Zur Methodologie einer Geschichte der wissenschaftlich-technischen Revolution. - Luigi Bulferetti, Technosystème et système économique. - Rolf Sonnenmann, Zur Funktion von Wissenschaft und Technik beim Übergang vom vormonopolistischen Kapitalimus zum Imperalismus in Deutschland (1871-1900). - Emil Duda, Tehcnique as social phenomenon. - V. Y. Kelle, Technology and society as the object of sociological analysis. - B. A. Rozenfel'd, Mutual connection and mutual influence of science and technology in countries of medieval East. - A. A. Kuzin, Society and the aims of social production. - Alfred Wislicki, Durability and alternation of the machines: basic models. - V. I. Gukov, The motive power of technological advance. - Kurt H. Tessmann, Technik un Ökonomie. - B. I. Ivanov, Evolutionary and revolutionary development of technology. - I. A. Diakonova, Quelques aspects de l'industrie pétrolière en Russie prérévolutionaire. - Discussion of I. N. Bubnov (on the inter-conection between the needs and possibilities in the development of technology. On the classificatory structure of technology). - Discussion of A. I. Cherepnyov (Technology and man's work). - 2ND. THEME: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: THEIR INTERRELATIONSHIP AND RECIPROCAL INFLUENCE: - Gisele Bucheim, Die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Industrie, Staat und Wissenschaft, gezeigt am Beispiel der Gründung der Physikalisch-Tecnischen Reichsanstal (1887). - L. I. Uvarova, The link between science and production at the various historical stages of society's development. - Melvin Kranzberg, Science and technology: their interdependance and inter-impact on the contemporary stage. - Discussion of R. Sonnemann. - N. M. Montchev, Scientific and technical innovation as a dynamic form of interaction between science and technique. - Rolf Sonnemann, Empirie und Wissenchaft in der geschicthe der chemischen Indusctrie (2. Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts). - Karel Müller, Economic analsys of science development. - Discussion of E. Wächtler. - Discussion of S. S. Adasinski (Interconnection beween science and technology in the development of social production). - I. A. Negodayev, Technisches Wissen als geistiger Faktor der gesellschaftlichen Produktion. - Lothar Striebing, Platz und Funktionen der technischen Wissenschaften im System Wissenschaft-Produktion. - V. M. Rodionov, Technical sciences in the "science-technology-production" system. - Eginhard Fabian, Aktuelle Problems der wissenschaftlich-technischen Information in der sozialistischen Gesellschaft. - Discussion of C. Maccagni (some general remarks and suggestions for further research). - Discussion of V. A. Gurikov (on the study of interconnections between natural and technical sciences). - 3RD THEME: COSMIC SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: - A. D. Ursul, Space exploration and the scientific and technological revolution. - Melvin Kransberg, The influence of cosmonautics on difeerent spheres of the activity of man. - O. Wolczek, The importance of space research for the future development of science, technology and the civilization of mankind. - Yu. A. Shkolenko, Critical analysis of some concepts of technological determinism in the space era. - L. N. Malkov, On the technosphere, its essence and prospects of development. - I. N. Bubnov, The dialectis of space exploration. - Yu. B. Tatarinov, The study of outer space and the development of cognizance. - L. E. Maistrov, Influence of space research in the history of science and technology. - I. S. Korochentsev, On the work of the K. E. Tsiolkovski State Museum of History of Astronautics to popularise the ideas of space exploration. - CONCLUSION OF THE SYMPOSIUM / L. Bulferetti. - List of participants. - List of photographs. - Contents