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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Donald MacKenzie , Judy WajcmanPublisher: Open University Press Imprint: Open University Press Edition: 2nd edition Dimensions: Width: 17.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.900kg ISBN: 9780335199136ISBN 10: 0335199135 Pages: 480 Publication Date: 16 June 1999 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Acknowledgements Editors' note Preface to the Second Edition /f002Part 1: Introductory essay and general issues Introductory essay: the social shaping of technology Do artifacts have politics? Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium Edison and electric light Inventing personal computing Constructing a bridge Competing technologies and economic prediction The social construction of technology Redefining the social link from baboons to humans Caught in the wheels the high cost of being a female cog in the male machinery of engineering Making 'white' people white /f002Part 2: The technology of production Introduction The watermill and feudal authority The machine versus the worker Technology and capitalist control Social choice in machine design the case of automatically controlled machine tools The material of male power What machines can't do politics and technology in the industrial enterprise Writers, texts and writing acts gendered user images in word processing software Learning by trying the implementation of configurational technology Working relations of technology production and use /f002Part 3: Reproductive technology Introduction The industrial revolution in the home A gendered socio-technical construction the smart house A woman's place Dolores Hayden on the 'grand domestic revolution' Inserting Grafenberg's IUD into the sex reform The decline of the one-size-fits-all paradigm, or, how reproductive scientists try to cope with post-modernity /f002Part 4: Military technology Introduction Cold war and white heat the origins and meanings of packet switching Manufacturing gender in military cockpit design The American army and the M-16 rifle The Thor-Jupiter controversy The weapons succession process Theories of technology and the abolition of nuclear weapons Bibliography Index.Reviews"Delanty has written a fluent and succinct overview of social theory, including informed commentary and critique...The book presents some very good potted accounts of the various theoretical positions in the social sciences and sets out issues that are not yet resolved. It should be added to the reading lists of theory and methodology courses in the social sciences." - The Times Higher """Delanty has written a fluent and succinct overview of social theory, including informed commentary and critique...The book presents some very good potted accounts of the various theoretical positions in the social sciences and sets out issues that are not yet resolved. It should be added to the reading lists of theory and methodology courses in the social sciences."" - The Times Higher" Author InformationDonald MacKenzie holds a personal Chair in Sociology at Edinburgh University, where he has taught since 1975. He is the author of Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge (Edinburgh University Press, 1981), Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (MIT Press, 1990) and of Knowing Machines: Essays in Technical Change (MIT Press, 1996). The second of these books won the Ludwig Fleck prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science, and was joint winner of the 1993 Robert K. Merton Award of the American Sociological Association. His numerous articles in the sociology and social history of science and technology have won three further international prizes, and have been translated into French, German, Dutch, Japanese, Polish and Greek. Judy Wajcman is Professor of Sociology in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. She has previously taught and researched at the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh and Warwick in England and the University of New South Wales in Australia. Her books include Women in Control: Dilemmas of a Workers' Co-operative (Open University Press, 1983), Feminism Confronts Technology (Polity Press, 1991) and Managing Like a Man: Women and Men in Corporate Management (Polity Press, 1998). Her publications in the sociology of technology and gender relations have been translated into German, Greek and Portuguese. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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