SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Plutonium, Social Studies, Wiebe Bijker

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3116
• Professor: Stephan Larose

Document Summary

Counter: scot is not concerned with the aftermath, but only has a principal aim of explaining technical change rather than social impact. Pays attention only to rsgs than groups that have been supressed: consider that the public was never included in the design process of the high-efficiency lamp, even though they were relevant as consumers. People white, where he claimed that these technologies have been implicitly shaped by a common market of ethnicity skin color. How technical choice may involve dynamics beyond those revealed, or may have deeper origins that go back centuries ago. Yet, is this leaving something out or is it missing the big picture: **most important criticism** social constructivism doesn"t take any evaluative stance or moral principle there is no normative analysis. Winner critical that bijker treated technology as politically-neutral and did not have a standpoint of moral concern to criticise technological development, but was a rather a simplistic view of innovation.