Shaping Technology / Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change

by Wiebe E. Bijker

Book Overview

Building on the influential book The Social Construction of Technological Systems, this volume carries forward the project of creating a theory of technological development and implementation that is strongly grounded in both sociology and history.

Technology is everywhere, yet a theory of technology and its social dimension remains to be fully developed. Building on the influential book The Social Construction of Technological Systems,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00B9EH6VM
• ISBN13: 9780262521949
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher