The social construction of technological systems: New directions in the sociology and history of technology (1987)
Bijker, Wiebe E. (Editor)
Hughes, Thomas Parke (Editor)
Pinch, Trevor J. (Editor)
MIT Press
Physical Details: xi + 405 pp.; illus.; notes; index
Description Contents: Pinch, Trevor J., Bijker, Wiebe E.: The social construction of facts and artifacts: or How the sociology of science and sociology of technology might benefit each other. Hughes, Thomas P.: The evolution of large technological systems. Callon, Michel: Society in the making: The study of technology as a tool for sociological analysis. Law, John: Technology and heterogeneous engineering: The case of Portuguese expansion. Belt, Henk van den, Rip, Arie: The Nelson-Winter-Dosi model and synthetic dye chemistry. Bijker, Wiebe E.: The social construction of bakelite: Toward a theory of invention. MacKenzie, Donald: Missile accuracy: A case study in the social processes of technological change. Constant, Edward W., II: The social locus of technological practice: Community, system, or organization? Bodewitz, Henk J.H.W., Buurma, Henk, Vries, Gerard H. de: Regulatory science and the social management of trust in medicne. Cowan, Ruth Schwartz: The consumption junction: A proposal for research strategies in the sociology of technology. Yoxen, Edward: Seeing with sound: A study of the development of medical images. Woolgar, Steve: Reconstructing man and machine: A note on sociological critiques of cognitivism. Collins, H.M.: Expert systems and the science of knowledge.
Review Fischer, C.S. (1987) Review of "The social construction of technological systems: New directions in the sociology and history of technology". Science (pp. 1152-53).
Review Shrum, W. (1988) Review of "The social construction of technological systems: New directions in the sociology and history of technology". American Journal of Sociology (pp. 396-403).
Review Lawrence, G.M. (1989) Review of "The social construction of technological systems: New directions in the sociology and history of technology". Medical History (p. 273).
Review Lawrence, C. (1988) Review of "The social construction of technological systems: New directions in the sociology and history of technology". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 655-56).
Review Westrum, R. (1989) Review of "The social construction of technological systems: New directions in the sociology and history of technology". Social Studies of Science (pp. 189-91).
Review Mathews, J. (1992) Review of "The social construction of technological systems: New directions in the sociology and history of technology". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 121-24).
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