Social Construction of Technological Systems, Anniversary Edition New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology

Name: Social Construction of Technological Systems, Anniversary Edition New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology
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ISBN: 9780262517607

ISBN-10: 0262517604

ISBN-13: 9780262517607

Edition: 2012

Authors: Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas Parke Hughes, Trevor Pinch, Deborah G. Douglas

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This pioneering book, first published in 1987, launched the new field of social studies of technology. It introduced a method of inquiry--social construction of technology, or SCOT--that became a key part of the wider discipline of science and technology studies. The book helped the MIT Press shape its STS list and inspired the Inside Technology series. The thirteen essays in the book tell stories about such varied technologies as thirteenth-century galleys, eighteenth-century cooking stoves, and twentieth-century missile systems. Taken together, they affirm the fruitfulness of an approach to the study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 5/18/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 470
Size: 6.10" wide x 8.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English

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.

Deborah G. Douglas is Curator of Science and Technology at the MIT Museum. She was the curator and project director for the MIT 150 Exhibition.