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Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts
This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism,…
Configuring the User: The Case of Usability Trials
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The metaphor of machine as text is explored, set within the context of longstanding problems in social theory about agency and object, where 'configuring' includes defining the identity of putative users, and setting constraints upon their likely future actions.
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The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Organization
Acknowledgements. Introduction: Deus ex Machina. . 1. Theories of Technology. 2. The Luddites: Diablo Ex Machina. . 3. Configuring the User: Inventing New Technologies. 4. Some Failures of Nerve in…
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Science, the very idea
The notion of science is a dominant and enduring feature of Western thought. This book looks at the social study of science, which has begun to transform attitudes to science traditionally upheld by…
The Turn to Technology in Social Studies of Science
This article examines how the special theoretical significance of the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is affected by attempts to apply relativist-constructivism to technology. The article…
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Representation in Scientific Practice
The essays in this book provide an excellent introduction to the means by which scientists convey their ideas. While diverse in their subject matter, the essays are unified in asserting that…
The Machine at Work
Keywords: Socio-technical systems ; work organisation Reference Record created on 2005-06-20, modified on 2016-08-08
The wrong bin bag: A turn to ontology in science and technology studies?
There is in science and technology studies a perceptible new interest in matters of ‘ontology’. Until recently, the term ‘ontology’ had been sparingly used in the field. Now it appears to have…
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Ontological Gerrymandering: The Anatomy of Social Problems Explanations
Recent explanations of social problems have increasingly adopted the “definitional” perspective. This paper provides a critical commentary on the form of sociological explanation common to this…
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Mundane Governance: Ontology and Accountability
What is to be made of the outcry when newly issued recycling "wheelie" bins are discovered to contain microchips for weighing and evaluating householders' rubbish? The angry accusations that speed…
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