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Technik - Das Andere der Gesellschaft? Rückblick auf 20 Jahre Soziologie städtischer und anderer Artefakte

Technology - The Other of Society? Looking Back on 20 Years of Social Studies on Urban and Other Artefacts

This essay examines marked, if entirely inconclusive, changes in the landscape of social studies of technology over the past two decades. Admittedly colored autobiographically, it points to various attempts to overcome the "otherness" imposed on technical artefacts and networks by sociologists and to bring them back into the social realm. Three factors are made responsible for the fact that studen…

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Creator

  • Joerges, Bernward

Publisher

  • Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH

Subject

  • Sociology & anthropology
  • Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
  • actor-network-theory
  • technology studies
  • sociology of technology
  • engineering
  • science studies
  • society
  • Engineering
  • Society
  • Technique

Type of item

  • Arbeitspapier