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Shaping technology/building society: studies in sociotechnical change

Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law
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  • Frontmatter (page N/A)
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  • Preface (page ix)
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  • General Introduction (page 1)
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  • I. DO TECHNOLOGIES HAVE TRAJECTORIES? (page 15)
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  • Introduction (page 17)
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  • 1. The Life and Death of an Aircraft: A Network Analysis of Technical Change (John Law and Michel Callon, page 21)
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  • 2. What's in a Patent? (Geof Bowker, page 53)
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  • 3. The Social Construction of Fluorescent Lighting, or How an Artifact Was Invented in Its Diffusion Stage (Wiebe E. Bijker, page 75)
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  • II. STRATEGIES, RESOURCES, AND THE SHAPING OF TECHNOLOGY (page 103)
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  • Introduction (page 105)
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  • 4. Controversy and Closure in Technological Change: Constructing "Steel" (Thomas J. Misa, page 109)
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  • 5. Closing the Ranks: Definition and Stabilization of Radioactive Wastes in the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1945-1960 (Adri de la Bruheze, page 140)
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  • 6. Artifacts and Frames of Meaning: Thomas A. Edison, His Managers, and the Cultural Construction of Motion Pictures (W. Bernard Carlson, page 175)
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  • III. What Next? Technology, Theory, and Method (page 199)
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  • Introduction (page 201)
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  • 7. The De-Scription of Technical Objects (Madeleine Akrich, page 205)
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  • 8. Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts (Bruno Latour, page 225)
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  • 9. A Summary of a Convenient Vocabulary for the Semiotics of Human and Nonhuman Assemblies (Madeleine Akrich and Bruno Latour, page 259)
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  • 10. Technology, Testing, Text: Clinical Budgeting in the U.K. National Health Service (Trevo Pinch, Malcolm Ashmore, and Michael Mulkay, page 265)
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  • 11. Postscript: Technology, Stability, and Social Theory (John Law and Wiebe E. Bijker, page 290)
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  • References (page 309)
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  • Contributors (page 327)
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  • Index (page 331)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
CS 22.4 (Jul. 1993): 490-492 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28199307%2922%3A4%3C490%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I
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Published: c1992
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780262521949 (paper)
  • 9780262023382 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Science & Technology
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