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Towards a Sociology of Information Technology
Current Sociology, 2002There is a strong tendency in the social sciences to understand and conceptualize the new information technologies in terms of their technical properties and to construct the relation to the sociological world as one of applications and impacts. Less work has gone into developing analytic categories that allow us to capture the complex imbrications of ...
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The Sociology of Medical Science and Technology
Contemporary Sociology, 19991. Assessing the Social Impact of Genetic Biotechnologies: Evan Willis (La Trobe University Australia). 2. The Abortion Pill RU486: A Case of Organizational and Technological Change: Sharon Tabberer (Anglia Polytechnic University). 3. a Strange Bedfellowsa in the Laboratory of the NHS?
Duane A. Matcha, Mary Ann Elston
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Sociology and the functions of technological autonomy
Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 1997Abstract This paper provides an overview of the sociology of technology. It reviews different arguments about the sociology of technology and examines the path to social change. After reviewing those classical and contemporary theories which define the impact of technological processes, this paper explores the effects of society on technology and ...
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Sociology of Science and Technology
1991We saw in the previous chapter that scientific knowledge can no longer be treated as some asocial, privileged account of nature. Sociologists and historians of science have shown that the general shape and direction of science is influenced by social processes. So too are the very knowledge-claims of science itself.
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Gender and the New Sociology of Technology
Social Studies of Science, 1992First it was said that gender was not an issue in the objective world of technical decision-making; then that gender could only be studied as it appeared in the interest talk of techno-scientists and engineers, or as conscious strategic interventions in the practices constitutive of technological networks.
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Towards a Sociology of Education and Technology
2013Without doubt, one of the defining features of the past 30 years has been the ongoing development of digital technology. The scale and pace of innovation in technologies such as computing and mobile telephony has prompted many commentators to portray societal development (at least in the overdeveloped regions of North America, East Asia and Europe) as ...
Facer, Keri, Selwyn, Neil
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Reproductive Technologies: A New Terrain for the Sociology of Technology
1990It is an established assumption within some quarters of the sociology of technology (see Touraine, 1971; Bell, 1973; Gorz, 1982) that Western societies are becoming ‘post-industrial’ or ‘leisure’ societies. Such claims are based, to some degree, on assessments of the social implications of a particular set of technological changes in the mode of ...
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