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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809574603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2012

ISBN

0-262-30087-7

1-280-67837-2

9786613655301

0-262-30162-8

Edizione

[Anniversary ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (470 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BijkerWiebe E

HughesThomas Parke

PinchT. J (Trevor J.)

DouglasDeborah G

Disciplina

303.48/3

Soggetti

Technology - Sociological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

An anniversary edition of an influential book that introduced a groundbreaking approach to the study of science, technology, and society.