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

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…