The Social construction of technological systems : new directions in the sociology and history of technology /
"The impact of technology on society is clear and unmistakeable. The influence of society on technology is more subtle. The 13 essays in this book have been written by a diverse group of scholars united by a common interest in creating a new field - the sociology of technology. They draw on a w...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
1994
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Table of Contents:
- (cont.) 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
- Reconstructing man and machine : a note on sociological critiques of cognitivism / Steve Woolgar
- Expert systems and the science of knowledge / H.M. Collins
- The social construction of facts and artifacts
- Trevor J. Pinch and Wiebe E. Bijker / The evolution of large technological systems
- Thomas P. Hughes / Society in the making
- Michel Callon / Technology and heterogeneous engineering
- John Law / The Nelson-Winter-Dosi model and synthetic dye chemistry
- Henk van den Belt and Arie Rip / The social construction of Bakelite
- Wiebe E. Bijker
- Missile accuracy
- Donald MacKenzie / The social laws of technological practice
- Edward W. Constant II / Regulatory science and the social management of trust in medicine
- Henk J.H.W. Bodewitz, Henk Buurma, and Gerard H. de Vries / The consumption junction
- Ruth Schwartz Cowan / Seeing with sound
- Edward Yoxen / Reconstructing Man and machine
- Steve Woolgar / Expert systems and the science of knowledge
- H.M. Collins
- 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
- 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
- Missile accuracy : a case study in the social processes of technological change / Donald MacKenzie