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- Title: On the Soft Power of Sci-Tech Culture and Paths to Improve It.
- Author : Studies in Sociology of Science
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 188 KB
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According to the view of Joseph Nye, economy, sci-tech, and military affairs belong to the category of "hard power", while "soft power" includes culture, values, social systems, ideologies and so on. His partition between hard power and soft power make technology and culture belong to different fields, resulting in the illusion of antagonism between technology and culture. However, during the developmental history of human civilization, sci-tech always contains rich cultural connotations, the simple sci-tech excluding culture does not exist. Culture is a dynamic organism which needs constant critique, explanation, and updating. Sci-tech has been brought into the dynamic organisms of cultural development since the date of its birth, and as the rapid development of modern sci-tech practice, has developed a unique scientific and cultural system. 1. SCI-TECH CULTURE AND THE SOFT POWER OF SCI-TECH CULTURE