SOCY 284 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Class Conflict, Safety Bicycle, Higgs Boson

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 284
• Professor: Norma Mollers

Document Summary

Social construction of technology (scot): one of the major theoretical frameworks, emphasis on agency rather than structure, social order can be negotiated on a daily basis; which agency cannot be changed, strengths: Understanding counterintuitive/ old patterns of development and adoption. Emphasis: (especially early scot): development: concepts: Technology development: always more than just technology development. Plays a lot of roles in shaping society looking at technology shows how society is shaped: heterogeneous engineering involves engineering both the social and the technical, examples: Why does cctv continue to proliferate despite the lack of effectives. The goal of cctv was to reduce crimes. Majority of studies show there was no reduction in crime rates, but if there was it was due to displacement changing the area of crime where there was no cctv. We assume that best technology wins , which is not the case. Social construction of technology (scot): perspectival, cultural sociological approach. Disconnects the idea that technology is embedded.