The social construction of technological systems : new directions in the sociology and history of technology /
An anniversary edition of an influential book that introduced a groundbreaking approach to the study of science, technology, and society.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2012.
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| Edition: | Anniversary ed. |
| Series: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
- Common themes in sociological and historical studies of technology : Introduction : The social construction of facts and artifacts: or how the sociology of science and the sociology of technology might benefit each other / Trevor J. Pinch, Wiebe E. Bijker : The evolution of large technological systems / Thomas P. Hughes : Society in the making: the study of technology as a tool for sociological analysis / Michel Callon
- Simplifying the complexity : Introduction : Technology and heterogeneous engineering: the case of Portuguese expansion / John Law : The Nelson-Winter-Dosi model and synthetic dye chemistry / Henk van den Belt, Arie Rip : The social construction of bakelite: toward a theory of invention / Wiebe E. Bijker
- Strategic research sites : Introduction : Missile accuracy: a case study in the social processes of technological change / Donald MacKenzie : The social locus of technological practice: community, system, or organization? / Edward W. Constant II : Regulatory science and the social management of trust in medicine / Henk J.H.W. Bodewitz, Henk Buurma, Gerard H. de Vries : The consumption junction: a proposal for research strategies in the sociology of technology / Ruth Schwartz Cowan : Seeing with sound: a study of the development of medical images / Edward Yoxen
- Technology and beyond : Introduction : Reconstructing man and machine: a note on sociological critiques of cognitivism / Steve Woolgar : Expert systems and the science of knowledge / H.M. Collins.