{"product_id":"technique-and-control-frank-w-elwell-9781771994491","title":"Technique and Control: Jacques Ellul's Sociology","description":"\u003cb\u003eCollects sociologist Jacques Ellul's insights on technology and social manipulation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jacques Ellul was a prolific writer and brilliant sociologist whose work on technological society and propaganda remains relevant today, despite coming from a distinctly French, postwar perspective. \u003ci\u003eTechnique and Control\u003c\/i\u003e re-introduces Ellul's main body of work to social scientists and readers curious about technology and social life. Frank W. Elwell has updated and supplemented Ellul's examples of lifeworld domination through physical technology, organization, and an underlying mindset of technique that prioritizes efficient goal-oriented behaviors guided by experience, empiricism, calculability, predictability, and logic. Particular attention is given to the development of human techniques of control such as education, propaganda, and other modes of socialization. By re-invigorating these writings for contemporary readers, Elwell illuminates an important body of sociological work for a new generation of social scientists, students, and those interested in modern society and its continuing evolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank W. Elwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771994495\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771994491\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Athabasca University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Frank W. Elwell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46927898050815,"sku":"9781771994491","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b869781e-d65f-4926-91df-1d41437db286.jpg?v=1749373311","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/technique-and-control-frank-w-elwell-9781771994491","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}