SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Wiebe Bijker, Alarm Clock, Geopolitics

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

Document Summary

Technoscript analysis: principle of symmetry, first coined by bloor; It means, impartial to a statement being true or false. Nature is the result, not the cause of a statement becoming a true fact: next by pinch & bijker; Technology as being impartial to a machine being success or failure. Working is the result, not a cause of a machine becoming success/failure: in actor-network, symmetry is; Symmetrical with respect to explaining social world/technical world. The chimp realised its power through creating a tool out of an immobile, Translation a new goal or possibility, previously not foreseen, has been created: ape, with his tribe mates, would later kill the leader of a neighbouring tribe for a puddle of stale water. Last week"s reading mixing humans and nonhumans together; the sociology of a. Door-closer: technology implicitly suggests its applications and alternative uses to humans. May change or intermingle human"s course of action; Mundane artifacts (bijker: akrich the de-scription of technological objects.