303.48 SOC The Social Construction of Technological Systems : New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology / ed.: W. E. Bijker, T. P. Hughes, T. J. Trevor. - Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : MIT Press ; [S. l. : s. n.], 19871989. - x, 405 p. : il. - ISBN 0-262-52137-7. - ISBN 0-262-02262-1. - Текст : непосредственный. References : p. 349 - 372. Contributors : p. 373 - 376. Name index : p. 377 - 382. Subject index : p. 383 - 405
Common themes in sociological and historical studies of technology : part I Pinch, Trevor. The social construction of facts and artifacts : or how the sociology of science and the sociology of technology might benefit each other / T. J. Pinch, W. B. Bijker Hughes, Thomas. The evolution of large technological systems / T. P. Hughes Callon, Michel. Society in the making : the study of technology as a tool for sociological analysis / M. Callon Simplifying the complexity : part II Law, John. Technology and heterogeneous engineering : the case of Portuguese expansion / J. Law Belt, Henk van den. The Nelson-Winter-Dosi Model and synthetic dye chemistry / H. van den Belt, A. Rip Bijker, Wiebe. The social construction of bakelite : toward a theory of invention / W. E. Bijker Strategic research sites : part III MacKenzie, Donald. Missile accuracy : a case study in the social processes of technological change / D. MacKenzie Constant, Edward. The social locus of technological practice : community, system, or organization? / E. W. Constant Bodewitz, Henk. Regulatory science and the social management of trust in medicine / H. J. H. W. Bodewitz, H. Buurma, G. H. de Vries Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. The consumption junction : a proposal for research strategies in the sociology of technology / R. S. Cowan Yoxen, Edward. Seeing with sound : a study of the development of medical images / E. Yoxen Technology and beyond : part IV Woolgar, Steve. Reconstructing man and machine : a note on sociological critiques of cognitivism / S. Woolgar Collins, H. M. Expert systems and the science of knowledge / H. M. Collins
The impact of technology on society is clear and unmistakable. 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
