Social Construction of Technological Systems : New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology
by Wiebe Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes and Trevor Pinch (Eds.)Edition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1989-03-06
Publisher(s): Mit Pr
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Summary
The impact of technology on society is clear and unmistakable. The influence of society on technology is more subtle. The 13 essays in this book draw on a wide array of case studies from cooking stoves to missile systems, from 15thAshy;century Portugal to today's AI labs - to outline an original research program based on a synthesis of ideas from the social studies of science and the history of technology. Together they affirm the need for a study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other | |
| The Evolution of Large Technological Systems | |
| Society in the Making The Study of Technology as a Tool for Sociological Analysis | |
| Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering The Case of Portuguese Expansion | |
| The Nelson- Winter-Dosi Model and Synthetic Dye Chemistry | |
| The Social Construction of Bakelite Toward a Theory of Invention | |
| Missile Accuracy A Case of Study in the Social Processes of Technological Change | |
| The Social Locus of Technological Practice Community, System, or Organization | |
| Regulatory Science and the Social Management of Trust in Medicine | |
| The Consumption Junction A Proposal for Research Strategies in the Sociology of Technology | |
| Seeing with Sound A Study of the Development of Medical Images | |
| Reconstructing Man and Machine A Note on Sociological Critiques of Cognitivism | |
| Expert Systems and the Science of Knowledge | |
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