The Social Construction of Technological Systems

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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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