Social construction of technological systems: new directions in the sociology and history / edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor Pinch ; foreword by Deborah G. Douglas.

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Bijker, Wiebe E., ed

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: MIT Press, 2012. Cambridge:Description: xliv, 425 pISBN:

9780262517607

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306.46 SOC

Summary: 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 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB D-2	Non Fiction	306.46 SOC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Cop. 1	Available		006994
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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 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.

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