The Social construction of technological systems
Subtitle: new directions in the sociology and history of technology
By: edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor J. Pinch.
Contributors: Bijker, Wiebe E.; Hughes, Thomas Parke.; Pinch, T. J.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
Subjects: Technology -- Sociological aspects -- Congresses.
Description: "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 wide array of case studies - from cooking stoves to missile systems, from 15th-century Portugal to today's Al labs - to outline an original research program based on a synthesis of ideas from the social studies of science and the history of technology. Together they affirm the need for a study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions"--Back cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [349]-372.
Papers of a workshop held at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, in July 1984.
Includes indexes.