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The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology [Hardcover]

Wiebe E. Bijker (Author), Thomas P. Hughes (Author), Trevor J. Pinch (Editor)


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August 1987
The 13 essays in this book draw on a wide array of case studies from cooking stoves to missile systems, from 15th-century Portugal to today's AI labs - to outline an original research program based on a synthesis of ideas from the social studies of science and the history of technology.


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"... required reading for STS teachers and researchers - and, indeed, for anyone convinced that it is essential, in the modern world, to understand the social nature of technical innovation." David Edge, Director, Science Studies Unit, University of Edinburgh

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Wiebe E. Bijker is Professor of Technology and Society at the University of Maastricht. Trevor Pinch is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. Thomas P. Hughes is Emeritus Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

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United States, World War, Draper Laboratory, Schwartz Cowan, Cape Bojador, Elmer Sperry, Michel Callon, Great Britain, Instrumentation Laboratory, John Law, Trustees of the Science Museum, United Kingdom, Trevor Pinch, Indian Ocean, Lawson's Bicyclette, Networks of Power, New York, Edward Constant, General Electric Company, Simplifying the Complexity, Stanley Exhibition of Cycles, Tom Hughes, West Germany, Alfred Chandler, Heinrich Caro
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