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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Editor's Note -- Foreword by Peter Baehr -- Dialogue, Disputation, Dismissiveness and the Motives for Controversy -- Notes -- PART I: From Combat to Dialogue -- 1. Dialogical Social Theory -- Prologue. The Idea of Dialogue -- Note -- 2. Dialogue and Human Combat -- Nature: Aggression Instinctive -- Society and Environment: Aggression Cultural -- Micro-social Situations: Aggression Interpersonal -- Rebels Against Aggression -- Secular Trends that Support the Reduction of Combativeness -- 3. Transforming the Adversarial Mindset: Japanese Martial Arts and American Litigation -- The Martial Arts in Japanese Culture -- Litigation in Euro-American Culture -- The Methodology of Aikido -- The Methodology of Mediation -- Mutual Relevance -- Aikido's Gifts to Mediation -- How Mediation Might Enrich Aikido Practice -- Notes -- 4. Civilizations, Clashing and Harmonious -- In Support of the Huntington Thesis -- Challenges to the Huntington Thesis -- From Clashing to Connecting Civilization: The Greco-Roman Case -- India and Japan -- The Abrahamic Civilizations -- A Challenge for the Future -- Notes -- PART II: Dialogue Involving Shared Objectives -- 5. Universalism in the French Philosophes and the Russian Intelligentsia -- I The Universalist Outlook -- II Universalism in the French Enlightenment -- III Enlightenment Universalism on Russian Soil -- IV Universalism, Russian Style -- V Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. The Sociology of Morality in the Work of Parsons, Simmel, and Merton -- Talcott Parsons: From Voluntarism to Multidimensional Determinism -- Georg Simmel: From Multidimensional Determinism To Existential Voluntarism -- Robert K. Merton: From Anomie To Normative Ambivalence -- Toward Integration -- Notes

Technology is not a new development; the novelty lies in its total domination of our social lives. This book uses social theory to make sense of the growing role of technology in our lives at home, at work or at leisure. Drawing on the latest empirical work, it gives a clear sociological analysis of technology for all social science students.