SOCY 284 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tacit Knowledge
22 Jan 2018
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People have different perspectives and needs for certain artifacts. Some want for speed, some want for safety. As controversies are closed, artifacts are stabilized (fewer competing versions: stabilization of artifact, disappearance of problem. Interpretive exibility (in meanings and use, not in design) might remain, but problems are solved. As controversies are closed, artifacts are closed, artifacts are stabilized (controversies are closed) What a technology is and what it isn"t is de ned by the social groups to which it is relevant. Success and failure of technology are dependent on the strength of the social groups involved. Radically constructivist - doesn"t examine how technology pushes back (materiality) Technology development is neither a linear process, nor an isolated event; but a lengthy process of negotiation between competing meaning of groups involved. Relationship to social change: technology development is more socially changed than changing society. Technological frames account for cohesion among rsgs by providing. Patterns of knowledge, practices and artifacts which hang together.
