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Social Construction of Technological Systems, Anniversary Edition : New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology by Wiebe E. Bijker (2012, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherMIT Press

ISBN-100262517604

ISBN-139780262517607

eBay Product ID (ePID)124222772

Product Key Features

Book TitleSocial Construction of Technological Systems, Anniversary Edition : New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology

Number of Pages470 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSocial Aspects, History

Publication Year2012

IllustratorYes

GenreTechnology & Engineering

AuthorWiebe E. Bijker

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight22.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2011-042098

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal303.483

Edition DescriptionAnniversary

SynopsisAn anniversary edition of an influential book that introduced a groundbreaking approach to the study of science, technology, and society. 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 questions, and they demonstrate the illuminating effects of the integration of empirics and theory. The approaches in this volume-collectively called SCOT (after the volume's title) have since broadened their scope, and twenty-five years after the publication of this book, it is difficult to think of a technology that has not been studied from a SCOT perspective and impossible to think of a technology that cannot be studied that way., An anniversary edition of an influential book that introduced a groundbreaking approach to the study of science, technology, and society. 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 questions, and they demonstrate the illuminating effects of the integration of empirics and theory. The approaches in this volume--collectively called SCOT (after the volume's title) have since broadened their scope, and twenty-five years after the publication of this book, it is difficult to think of a technology that has not been studied from a SCOT perspective and impossible to think of a technology that cannot be studied that way.

LC Classification NumberT14.5.S6375 2012