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Module 2, Conceptualization 2: Social Construction of Technology
Core Readings
- Pinch, T., and W. Bijker. 1984. The social construction of facts and artifacts Bijker1984.pdf
- Winner, L. 1993. Upon opening the black box and finding it empty: social constructivism and the philosophy of technology. Science, Technology & Human Values. 18(3). Summer. pp. 362-378. On JSTOR
- MacKenzie, D., and J. Wajcman, Eds. 1999. The Social Shaping of Technology. McGraw-Hill.
- Williams, R., and D. Edge. The social shaping of technology. Research Policy (25). pp.865-899. On Elsevier.
- Reviews the body of research related to social shaping of technology, a position that may be broadly placed as claiming the middle ground between technological determinism and social construction of technology.
Supplementary Readings
- Bechky, B. "Object Lessons: Workplace Artifacts as Representations of Occupational Jurisdiction." American Journal of Sociology 109 (2003): 720-752.
- Jackson, M. H., Poole, M. S., & Kuhn, T. (2002). The social construction of technology in studies of the workplace. In L. A. Lievrouw & S. Livingstone (Eds.), Handbook of new media: Social shaping and consequences of ICTs (pp. 236-253). London: Sage.
- Barley, S. Technology as an Occasion for Structuring: Evidence from Observations of CT Scanners and the Social Order of Radiology Departments. Administrative Science Quarterly 31 (1986): 78-108.
- Uses, as the title says, evidence from a case, which takes place in two, related community hospitals. The theoretical basis it uses is the relation between 'institution' and 'action' to argue how organizational forms are 'sedimented' over time. Using the two cases, shows how identical technology, introduced in different organizations, can 'occasion similar dynamics' yet 'lead to different structural outcomes.'
