Description |
1 online resource (xi, 421 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
SUNY series in science, technology, and society |
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SUNY series in science, technology, and society.
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Contents |
Part 1: Politics and problems. -- Science, social problems, and progressive thought: essays on the tyranny of science / Jennifer Croissant and Sal Restivo -- The Politics of formal representations: wizards, gurus, and organizational complexity / Susan Leigh Star -- Computerization movements and the mobilization of support for computerization / Rob Kling and C. Suzanne Iacono -- Representation, cognition, and self: what hope for an integration of psychology and sociology? / Steve Woolgar -- Part 2: Materials and spaces. -- Research materials and reproductive science in the United States, 1910-1940 / Adele E. Clarke -- Laboratory space and the technological complex: an investigation of topical contextures / Michael Lynch -- Mixing humans and nonhumans together: the sociology of a door-closer / Jim Johnson, aka Bruno Latour -- Part 3: Workplace ecologies. -- Engineering and sociology in a military aircraft project: a network analysis of technological change / John Law and Michel Callon -- Ecologies of action: recombining genes, molecularizing cancer, and transforming biology / Joan H. Fujimura |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-403) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Science -- Social aspects
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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Social ecology.
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human ecology.
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Science -- Social aspects
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Social ecology
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Technology -- Social aspects
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Star, Susan Leigh, 1954-2010.
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ISBN |
0585086311 |
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9780585086316 |
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