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The Social Construction of Technological Systems

New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology
Buch | Hardcover
424 Seiten
1987
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-02262-0 (ISBN)
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The 13 essays in this book draw on a wide array of case studies from cooking stoves to missile systems, from 15thA 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.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 15thA 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.

Wiebe E. Bijker is Professor at Maastricht University and the author of Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change (MIT Press) and other books. Thomas P. Hughes is Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Trevor Pinch is Goldwin Smith Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University and coeditor of The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (anniversary edition, MIT Press). Trevor Pinch is Goldwin Smith Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University and coeditor of The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (anniversary edition, MIT Press). Wiebe E. Bijker is Professor at Maastricht University and the author of Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change (MIT Press) and other books. Thomas P. Hughes is Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Michel Callon, developer (with Bruno Latour and others) of Actor Network Theory, is Professor at the E cole des mines de Paris and a Researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de l'innovation there. John Law is Professor in Sociology at the University of Keele, Staffordshire, England.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.6.1987
Reihe/Serie The MIT Press
Co-Autor Trevor Pinch, Wiebe E. Bijker
Verlagsort Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-262-02262-1 / 0262022621
ISBN-13 978-0-262-02262-0 / 9780262022620
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