The Social Construction of Technological Systems, 1987, 1st ed.
$150.00
This pioneering book launched the new field of social studies of technology. It introduced a method of inquiry—social construction of technology, or SCOT—that became a key part of the wider discipline of science and technology studies. The book helped the MIT Press shape its STS list and inspired the Inside Technology series. The thirteen essays in the book tell stories about such varied technologies as thirteenth-century galleys, eighteenth-century cooking stoves, and twentieth-century missile systems. Taken together, they affirm the fruitfulness of an approach to the study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions, and they demonstrate the illuminating effects of the integration of empirics and theory.
-MIT Press
Hardcover, 8vo (6.5X9.5) with dust jacket. Black cloth over boards. Gilt titles at spine. Tips rubbed slightly. Shelf wear to head and toe of spine. Binding is sound. No internal marks. Jacket intact and protected in mylar sleeve. Wear to tips and sunning at spine. No tears or voids. VG.
This pioneering book launched the new field of social studies of technology. It introduced a method of inquiry—social construction of technology, or SCOT—that became a key part of the wider discipline of science and technology studies. The book helped the MIT Press shape its STS list and inspired the Inside Technology series. The thirteen essays in the book tell stories about such varied technologies as thirteenth-century galleys, eighteenth-century cooking stoves, and twentieth-century missile systems. Taken together, they affirm the fruitfulness of an approach to the study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions, and they demonstrate the illuminating effects of the integration of empirics and theory.
-MIT Press
Hardcover, 8vo (6.5X9.5) with dust jacket. Black cloth over boards. Gilt titles at spine. Tips rubbed slightly. Shelf wear to head and toe of spine. Binding is sound. No internal marks. Jacket intact and protected in mylar sleeve. Wear to tips and sunning at spine. No tears or voids. VG.
This pioneering book launched the new field of social studies of technology. It introduced a method of inquiry—social construction of technology, or SCOT—that became a key part of the wider discipline of science and technology studies. The book helped the MIT Press shape its STS list and inspired the Inside Technology series. The thirteen essays in the book tell stories about such varied technologies as thirteenth-century galleys, eighteenth-century cooking stoves, and twentieth-century missile systems. Taken together, they affirm the fruitfulness of an approach to the study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions, and they demonstrate the illuminating effects of the integration of empirics and theory.
-MIT Press
Hardcover, 8vo (6.5X9.5) with dust jacket. Black cloth over boards. Gilt titles at spine. Tips rubbed slightly. Shelf wear to head and toe of spine. Binding is sound. No internal marks. Jacket intact and protected in mylar sleeve. Wear to tips and sunning at spine. No tears or voids. VG.