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Do Not Despair: There Is Life after Constructivism
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This article reviews recent work in socio-historical technology studies. Four problems, frequently mentioned in critical debates, are discussed—relativism, reflexivity, theory, and practice. The main body of the article is devoted to a discussion of the latter two problems. Requirements for a theory on socio-technical change are proposed, and one concrete example of a conceptual framework that meets these requirements is discussed. The second point of the article is to argue that present (science and) technology studies are now able to break away from a too academic, internalistic perspective and return to the politically relevant "Science, Technology & Society" issues that informed much of this work more than a decade ago.
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- Authors
- Bijker, W. E.
- Venue
- Science, Technology, & Human Values
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1993-01
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 113-138
- ISSN
- 0162-2439 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-8251
- OpenAlex
- W2033052881
- Cited by
- 245
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 31.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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