SOC 3116 Lecture 6: Lect. 6 - Arguing about Technological Change (III)
20 Oct 2015
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Arguing about technological change (iii: bijker (2009): the development since the 1980s of the sociology of technology known as the. Bijker"s answer: scot is a relativistic theory w. r. t. Preliminary answer: (i) artefacts and technical systems, (ii) knowledge about those, (iii) the practices of handling these artefacts and systems. Scot: historical antecedents: berger and luckmann (1966) spark studies of the construction of social institutions and phenomena (law, gender, mental illness), leading to the social construction of science in the. 1970s and of artefacts in the 1980s: mild constructivism: inclusion of social context, radical constructivism: the content of science and technology is socially constructed ; 1984: a workshop leads to the social construction of technology: new directions in the. 1: a rejection of technological determinism granting agency to technologies, one cannot assume that technology determines everything completely, successive units of analysis, the singular artefact. Early bicycles: the single technical system (comprising purely technical components). It is made up of a single hardware.
