文档介绍：Shaping Technology/Building
Society
Inside Technology
edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, W. Bernard Carlson, and Trevor Pinch
Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law, editors, Shaping Technology/Building Sociery:
Studies in Sociotechnical Change
Stuart S. Blume, Insight and Industry: On the Dynamics of Technological Change
in Medicine
H. M. Collins, Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines
Pamela E. Mack, Viewing the Earth: The Social Construction of the Landsat
Satellite System
Donald MacKenzie, Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear
Missile Guidance
Shaping Technology/ Building
Society
Studies in Sociotechnical Change
edited by Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
©1992 Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shaping technology/building society :studies in sociotechnical change/ edited
by Wiebe E. Bijker and john Law.
p. cm.-(Inside technology)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-02338-5
I. Technology-Social aspects. I. Bijker, Wiebe E. II. Law, john, 1946-
II I. Series.
1992
'3-dc20 91-48122
CIP
Contents
Preface zx
Generallntroduction 1
Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law
I
DO TECHNOLOGIES HAVE TRAJECTORIES?
Introduction 17
1
The Life and Death of an Aircraft: work Analysis
of Technical Change 21
John Law and Michel Gallon
2
What's in a Patent? 53
Geof Bowker
3
The Social Construction of Fluorescent Lighting, or
How an Artifact Was Invented in It