The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (The MIT Press) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0262521377 ISBN 13: 9780262521376

Verlag: MIT Press, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

The impact of technology on society is clear and unmistakable. The influence ofsociety on technology is more subtle. The 13 essays in this book draw on a wide array of casestudies from cooking stoves to missile systems, from 15th­century Portugal to today's AI labs- to outline an original research program based on a synthesis of ideas from the social studies ofscience and the history of technology. Together they affirm the need for a study of technology thatgives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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).

Michel Callon, developer (with Bruno Latour and others) of Actor Network Theory, is Professor at the É 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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262521377
• ISBN 13: 9780262521376
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 424
• Herausgeber: Bijker Wiebe E., Hughes Thomas Parke, Pinch Trevor
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