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Shaping technology/building society: studies in sociotechnical change

Bijker, Wiebe E., Law, John, 1946-

Year: c1992.

Publisher: MIT Press.

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Frontmatter

Preface

General Introduction

I. DO TECHNOLOGIES HAVE TRAJECTORIES?

Introduction

1. The Life and Death of an Aircraft: A Network Analysis of Technical Change

2. What's in a Patent?

3. The Social Construction of Fluorescent Lighting, or How an Artifact Was Invented in Its Diffusion Stage

II. STRATEGIES, RESOURCES, AND THE SHAPING OF TECHNOLOGY

Introduction

4. Controversy and Closure in Technological Change: Constructing "Steel"

5. Closing the Ranks: Definition and Stabilization of Radioactive Wastes in the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1945-1960

6. Artifacts and Frames of Meaning: Thomas A. Edison, His Managers, and the Cultural Construction of Motion Pictures

III. What Next? Technology, Theory, and Method

Introduction

7. The De-Scription of Technical Objects

8. Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts

9. A Summary of a Convenient Vocabulary for the Semiotics of Human and Nonhuman Assemblies

10. Technology, Testing, Text: Clinical Budgeting in the U.K. National Health Service

11. Postscript: Technology, Stability, and Social Theory

References

Contributors

Index

reviews

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Title:

Shaping technology/building society : studies in sociotechnical change edited by Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law.

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Bijker, Wiebe E; Law, John, 1946-

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Shaping technology/building society : studies in sociotechnical change edited by Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law.
Bijker, Wiebe E, Law, John, 1946-
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1992.

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• Technology -- Social aspects

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