Book ID: CBB000043721

The social shaping of technology: How the refrigerator got its hum (1985)

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MacKenzie, Donald A. (Editor)
Wajcman, Judy (Editor)


Open Univ. Press


Publication Date: 1985
Physical Details: 327 pp.; illus.; bibl.; index

Description A book of readings.


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Review Lyon, D. (1986) Review of "The social shaping of technology: How the refrigerator got its hum". Sociology (pp. 481-82). unapi

Review Lovejoy, D. (1986) Review of "The social shaping of technology: How the refrigerator got its hum". Science and Society (pp. 499-502). unapi

Review Hoch, P.K. (1987) Review of "The social shaping of technology: How the refrigerator got its hum". Technology and Culture (pp. 132-35). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bijker, Wiebe E.
Winner, Langdon
Pinch, Trevor J.
MacKenzie, Donald A.
Woolgar, Steve
White, Lynn, Jr.
Journals
Social Studies of Science
Science, Technology and Human Values
History and Technology
Science as Culture
Perspectives on Science
Pacific Historical Review
Publishers
MIT Press
State University of New York Press
Reidel
Publisud
Concepts
Sociology of knowledge
Technology
Sociology
Marine transportation
Proof
Computers and computing
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Medieval
20th century, late
Places
France
British Isles
Great Britain
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