The impact of technology on society is clear and unmistakable. The influence of society on technology is more subtle. The 13 essays in this book draw on a wide array of case studies from cooking stoves to missile systems, from 15thÂcentury 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. Together they affirm the need for a study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions.Wiebe E. Bijker teaches in the Department of General Sciences at the University of Limburg in The Netherlands; Thomas P. Hughes is Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and Trevor Pinch is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of York in England
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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 & Society at the University of Maastricht.
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- Science Observed: Perspectives on the Social Study of Science by Karin Knorr-Cetina in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence & Japan's Computer Challenge to the World by Pamela McCorduck on page 157, and Back Matter
- Confronting Nature: The Sociology of Solar-Neutrino Detection (Sociology of the Sciences - Monographs) by T. Pinch in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Great Britain (Discovering Cultures) by Sharon Gordon on page 298, and Back Matter
- The Act of Creation (Arkana) by Arthur Koestler on page 81, and Back Matter
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- Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) by William M. McBride in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine (Women in Culture and Society) by Angela N. H. Creager on page 146, page 183, and page 211
- The Site of the Social: A Philosophical Account of the Constitution of Social Life and Change by Theodore R. Schatzki on page 67, page 188, and Back Matter
- Sustainable Architectures: Critical Explorations of Green Building Practice in Europe and North America by Simon Guy in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Volume 17 by Agger on page 211, page 212, and page 213
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