ISBN:
9780262301626
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xliv, 425 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Anniversary ed (Online-Ausg.)
Series Statement:
The MIT Press Ser.
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. The social construction of technological systems
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. The social construction of technological systems
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Technology Congresses
;
Sociological aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Technology Congresses Sociological aspects
;
Technology-Sociological aspects-Congresses
;
Technology ; Sociological aspects ; Congresses
;
Electronic books
;
Technik
;
Technologie
;
Technology
;
Sociological aspects
;
Congresses
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Techniksoziologie
;
Technischer Fortschritt
Abstract:
An anniversary edition of an influential book that introduced a groundbreaking approach to the study of science, technology, and society.
Abstract:
Intro -- 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 Invention -- III 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 Cognitivism -- Expert Systems and the Science of Knowledge -- References -- Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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