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The social construction of technological systems : new directions in the sociology and history of technology / edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor Pinch ; foreword by Deborah G. Douglas.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology--Sociological aspects--Congresses.
- Technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (470 p.)
- Edition:
- Anniversary ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An anniversary edition of an influential book that introduced a groundbreaking approach to the study of science, technology, and society.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Preface to the Anniversary Edition; Acknowledgments; General Introduction; 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: The Study of Technology as a Tool for Sociological Analysis; II Simplifying the Complexity; Introduction; 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 InventionIII Strategic Research Sites; Introduction; Missile Accuracy: A Case 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; IV Technology and Beyond; Introduction
- Reconstructing Man and Machine: A Note on Sociological Critiques of CognitivismExpert Systems and the Science of Knowledge; References; Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-30087-7
- 1-280-67837-2
- 9786613655301
- 0-262-30162-8
- OCLC:
- 806438413
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