Technological innovations in the context of sociological theory
Journal Title: Zeszyty Naukowe Małopolskiej Wyższej Szkoły Ekonomicznej w Tarnowie - Year 2014, Vol 24, Issue 2
Abstract
The main purpose of the article is to present theoretical discussion about the notions “innovation”. The meaning of innovation will be discussed in reference to economic concepts as well as philosophy and social anthropology. The starting point in discussion about understanding the innovation in contemporary world will be the theory of economic growth and the concepts proposed by Joseph Schumpeter and Harvard’s school. Next the innovation will be presented in relation to the technical determinism. In this part of article, theory created by William Ogburn, Daniel Bell and Thorstein Veblen will be presented. The last, proposed in the discussion, approach refers the domain “innovation” to philosophical theory of phraseology and anthropology. Finally, thanks to this, the innovation “will be given in the hands of the user,” being at the same time the subject of human experience. Therefore, the discussion will become an attempt to build a bridge between the economic and the social recognition of innovation. Method of analysis is literature studies confiding towards the reconstruction of sociological theory of innovation.
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Magdalena Zdun
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