Article ID: CBB000049781

Reflexivity in technology studies: Toward a technology of technology (and science)? (1992)

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Description “In recent years scholars have begun to apply perspectives of the sociology of scientific knowledge to technology. At the same time, there has been much concern about how to deal, methodologically, with the issue of reflexivity in sociological (and historical) studies of science. This paper considers implications of the reflexivity issue for sociological and historical accounts of technology. Drawing on characterizations of technology (mainly by its historians), the paper develops several senses in which technology is conceived to differ significantly from science. Accordingly, assumptions and approaches, contexts and expectations associated with the sociology of scientific knowledge may be inappropriate to the study of technology.” From the abstract.


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Authors & Contributors
Rammert, Werner
Pinch, Trevor J.
Woolgar, Steve
Wise, M. Norton
Winner, Langdon
White, Lynn, Jr.
Concepts
Sociology of knowledge
Technology
Business and commerce
Science studies, theoretical works
Materials science
Development of science; change in science
Time Periods
20th century
Medieval
19th century
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