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Shaping Technology / Building Society

Studies in Sociotechnical Change
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Building on the book "The Social Construction of Technological Systems", "Shaping Technology/Building Society" carries forward the project of creating a theory of technological development and implementation that is strongly grounded in both sociology and history. The 12 essays address the central question of how technologies attain a final form and use that is generally accepted. The first part of the text examines and criticizes the idea that technologies have common life cycles. The second part looks at broader interactions shaping technology and its social context. The last part offers theoretical studies suggesting alternative approaches to sociotechnologies. Each part contains case studies, examples of which include a successful but never produced British jet fighter, the manipulation of patents by a French R&D company to gain a market foothold, and the managed development of high-intensity fluorescent lighting.

Author Biography:

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. John Law is Professor in Sociology at the University of Keele, Staffordshire, England. 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. John Law is Professor in Sociology at the University of Keele, Staffordshire, England. John Law is Professor in Sociology at the University of Keele, Staffordshire, England. Michel Callon, developer (with Bruno Latour and others) of Actor Network Theory, is Professor at the cole des mines de Paris and a Researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de l'innovation there. Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor and Director of the Evoke Lab at the University of California, Irvine. He is the coauthor (with Susan Leigh Star) of Sorting Things Out- Classification and Its Consequences and the author of Memory Practices in the Sciences, both published by the MIT Press. 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 J. Misa is ERA-Land Grant Professor of the History of Technology at the University of Minnesota, where he directs the Charles Babbage Institute. His books include Modernity and Technology (coedited with Philip Brey and Andrew Feenberg; MIT Press, 2003). Bruno Latour, a philosopher and anthropologist, is the author of We Have Never Been Modern, An Inquiry into Modes of Existence, Facing Gaia, Down to Earth, and many other books. He coedited (with Peter Weibel) the previous ZKM volumes Making Things Public, ICONOCLASH, and Reset Modernity! (all published by the MIT Press). Bruno Latour, a philosopher and anthropologist, is the author of We Have Never Been Modern, An Inquiry into Modes of Existence, Facing Gaia, Down to Earth, and many other books. He coedited (with Peter Weibel) the previous ZKM volumes Making Things Public, ICONOCLASH, and Reset Modernity! (all published by the MIT Press). 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). John Law is Professor in Sociology at the University of Keele, Staffordshire, England. 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.
Release date Australia
September 29th, 1994
Audiences
  • Further/Higher Education
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Contributors
  • Edited by John Law
  • Edited by Wiebe E. Bijker
Interest Age
From 18 years
Pages
352
Dimensions
152x229x23
ISBN-13
9780262521949
Product ID
3643730

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