SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Leo Baekeland, Bakelite, Incandescent Light Bulb

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

Document Summary

Other important rsgs enrolled in the social construction of bakelite. > electrical industry, automobile industry, radio industry, producers and consumers of consumer and domestic goods, industrial designers. "one of the uses of money is that it allows us not to live with the consequences of our mistakes - leo baekeland. > the inventor as individual genius (the case of archimedes) > economics and technology (edison"s invention of the light bulb) > inventors include: ford (model t), edison (light bulb), wright brothers (airplane), bill. > housing and married life under a roof. > user"s practice: custom of taking a bath. > a tool and exemplary artifact: the bathtub. > di erent mores or moral conceptions of what is socially acceptable. > all of these play a part in this tale. > search for synthetic plastics driven by economic concerns: scarcity of natural resources, growing consumer demand. > baekeland interested in commercial applications; how processes could be scaled up.