The Social Construction of Technological Systems New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology 1st Edition by Wiebe Bijker, Thomas Hughes, Trevor Pinch, Deborah Douglas, Wiebe Bijker, Trevor Pinch 0262517604 9780262517607

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ISBN 10: 0262517604 

ISBN 13: 9780262517607

Author: Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, Trevor Pinch, Deborah G. Douglas, Wiebe E. Bijker, Trevor Pinch

An anniversary edition of an influential book that introduced a groundbreaking approach to the study of science, technology, and society. This pioneering book, first published in 1987, launched the new field of social studies of technology. It introduced a method of inquiry—social construction of technology, or SCOT—that became a key part of the wider discipline of science and technology studies. The book helped the MIT Press shape its STS list and inspired the Inside Technology series. The thirteen essays in the book tell stories about such varied technologies as thirteenth-century galleys, eighteenth-century cooking stoves, and twentieth-century missile systems. Taken together, they affirm the fruitfulness of an approach to the study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions, and they demonstrate the illuminating effects of the integration of empirics and theory. The approaches in this volume—collectively called SCOT (after the volume’s title) have since broadened their scope, and twenty-five years after the publication of this book, it is difficult to think of a technology that has not been studied from a SCOT perspective and impossible to think of a technology that cannot be studied that way.

Table of contents:

I Common Themes in Sociological and Historical Studies of Technology

Introduction

The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts

The Evolution of Large Technological Systems

Society in the Making

II Simplifying the Complexity

Introduction

Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering

The Nelson-Winter-Dosi Model and Synthetic Dye Chemistry

The Social Construction of Bakelite

III Strategic Research Sites

Introduction

Missile Accuracy

The Social Locus of Technological Practice

Regulatory Science and the Social Management of Trust in Medicine

The Consumption Junction

Seeing with Sound

IV Technology and Beyond

Introduction

Reconstructing Man and Machine

Expert Systems and the Science of Knowledge

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