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020			_a9780262517607 (pbk.)
082			_a303.483 _bBIJ
100			_aBijker, Wiebe E. (Editor) _96637
245			_aThe Social construction of technological systems : _bnew directions in the sociology and history of technology
250			_aAnniversary Edition
260			_aLondon _bMIT Press _c2012
300			_axliv, 425p.
500			_ahttps://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262517607/the-social-construction-of-technological-systems/
520			_aThis pioneering book, first published in 1987, launched the new field of social studies of technology. It introduced a method of inquiry—social construction of technology, or SCOT—that became a key part of the wider discipline of science and technology studies. The book helped the MIT Press shape its STS list and inspired the Inside Technology series. The thirteen essays in the book tell stories about such varied technologies as thirteenth-century galleys, eighteenth-century cooking stoves, and twentieth-century missile systems. Taken together, they affirm the fruitfulness of an approach to the study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions, and they demonstrate the illuminating effects of the integration of empirics and theory. The approaches in this volume—collectively called SCOT (after the volume's title) have since broadened their scope, and twenty-five years after the publication of this book, it is difficult to think of a technology that has not been studied from a SCOT perspective and impossible to think of a technology that cannot be studied that way.
650			_aTechnology--Sociological aspects _96638
650			_aTechnology--Social aspects _9586
700			_aPinch, Trevor (Editor) _96639
700			_aHughes, Thomas P. (Editor) _96640
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