technologismn.
/tɛkˈnɒlədʒɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /tɛkˈnɑləˌdʒɪz(ə)m/ Belief in the power of technology to shape or improve human society; (also) love for or reliance on technology.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > study of society > [noun] > theories or methods of analysis
reflexivity1662
social statics1843
social causation1848
sociography1881
functionalism1904
class analysis1919
culturalism1919
mass observation1920
survey1927
participant observation1933
participant observing1933
Verstehen1934
panel technique1938
MO1939
ahistoricism1940
historicism1940
technologism1940
action research1945
metasociology1950
pattern variable1951
structural functionalism1951
structuralism1951
panel analysis1955
cliometrics1960
unilinearism1964
technology assessment1966
symbolic interactionism1969
modernization theory1972
processualism1972
postcolonialism1974
decontextualization1976
decontextualizing1980
structurism1989
1940 R. B. Perry Shall not perish from Earth iii. 71 The social and philosophical ideas which distinguish totalitarianism are not new in their severalty, but rather in their combined effect...There are four such..ideas which invite special attention: uniformitarianism, anti-intellectualism, tribalism, and technologism.
1969 B. Brewster tr. L. Althusser For Marx iii. 108 There are names for these temptations in the history of Marxism: economism and even technologism.
1978 Rev. Res. in Educ. 6 237 We must not get swept away by technologism.
1980 C. E. Schorske Fin-de-Siècle Vienna p. xix The trends in post-Nietzschean culture—irrationalism, subjectivism, abstractionism, anxiety, technologism.
2001 Computerworld (Nexis) 25 June 66 We find less of a tendency toward flavor-of-the-month technologism outside the U.S.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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