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The Social construction of technological systems: new directions in the sociology and history of technology
Pinch, T. J. (Trevor J.), Bijker, Wiebe E., Hughes, Thomas Parke.
Year: c1987.
Publisher:  MIT Press. 
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Frontmatter
Preface
General Introduction
1 Common Themes in Sociological and Historical Studies of Technology
Introduction
The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other
The Evolutions of Large Technological Systems
Society in the Making: The Study of Technology as a Tool for Sociological Analysis
2 Simplifying the Complexity
Introduction
Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering: The Case of Portuguese Expansion
The Nelson-Winter-Dosi Model and Synthetic Dye Chemistry
The Social Construction of Bakelite: Toward a Theory of Invention
3 Strategic Research Sites
Introduction
Missile Accuracy: A Case Study in the Social Processes of Technological Change
The Social Locus of Technological Practice
Regulatory Science and the Social Management of Trust in Medicine
The Consumption Juncion: A Proposal for Research Strategies in the Sociology of Technology
Seeing with Sound: A Study of the Development of Medical Images
4 Technology and Beyond
Introduction
Reconstructing Man and Machine: A Note on Sociological Crtiques of cognitiveism
Expert Systems and the Science of Knowledge
References
Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index
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Title: The Social construction of technological systems : new directions in the sociology and history of technology edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor J. Pinch.
Author: Pinch, T. J. (Trevor J.); Bijker, Wiebe E; Hughes, Thomas Parke
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Source Version: The Social construction of technological systems : new directions in the sociology and history of technology edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor J. Pinch. 
Pinch, T. J. (Trevor J.), Bijker, Wiebe E, Hughes, Thomas Parke
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1987.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01129
Subject Headings: • Technology -- Social aspects -- Congresses
Notes: • Includes indexes.
• Papers of a workshop held at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, in July 1984.
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