SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: S. Barry Barnes, Trevor Pinch, Wiebe Bijker
22 Nov 2016
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Intro to scot: of bicycles, bakelites, and bulbs. Prof of technology and society at the university of maastricht. Trained as an engineer in applied physics: holds a phd in the sociology and history of technology. Movement of science-technology-society was an activist movement. Book objective is to define the design of technology: bicycle, lightbulb and bakelite. Department of science and technology studies at cornell university. Pioneer in ssk: confronting nature: the sociology of neutrino detection. The sociology of scientific knowledge (ssk) and the construction of technology (scot) Edinburgh school (edinburgh university): david bloor, barry barnes, david edge. Bath school"s empirical program of relativism (epor - bath university): harry collins, trevor pinch. Impartial to a statement being true or false impartial to a machine being a success or failure. Symmetrical with respect to explaining truth and falsity (cid:498)nature(cid:499) is the result, not the cause, of a statement becoming a true fact.
