What Happened to Technology Adoption-Diffusion Research?

L'A. estime que la diffusion de la connaissance, de l'innovation technologique et de la culture est un des facteurs fondamentaux du changement social. Il affirme que cette question fut un des themes de predilection de la sociologie rurale et de la sociologie medicale a partir des annees 1940. Malgre tout il s'etonne du desinteret manifeste a l'endroit de cette question depuis les annees 1970. Il montre que la recherche s'est orientee, des lors, en ce domaine a l'initiative des economistes, vers les transferts de technologie et leur diffusion dans l'agriculture et l'industrie. L'A. examine les raisons de cet interet porte par les economistes sur ce type de question. Il s'efforce de saisir les causes du declin des recherches conduite sur ce plan en sociologie rurale

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