SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bakelite, Laboratory, Wiebe Bijker

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3116
• Professor: Stephan Larose

Document Summary

1: o er empirically (based on observation and/or experience instead of theory and logic) informed models of technological change, share a conception of technological development as a contingent (depends on. 4. something else unforeseen) process, involving di erent factors. Investigate how the very design of technology may embody important social assumptions and values: consider science, technology, and science as a seamless web" (everything comes together as a package, we should understand the three at the same time) > technological change is not explained by some innate logic" to technology but by human choices made during the development stage. Can technology be understood with the same conceptual tools developed for other ares (e. g, science or culture at large) Intro to scot: bicycles, bakelites, and bulbs: toward a theory of sociotecnical. > trained as a engineer in applied physics; holds phd in the sociology and history of technology.