Social construction of technology (SCOT) is a theory within the field of science and technology studies. Advocates of SCOT—that is, social constructivists—argue...

Social constructionism is a term used in sociology, social ontology, and communication theory. The term can serve somewhat different functions in each...

and consequences of science and technology in their historical, cultural, and social contexts. Like most interdisciplinary fields of study, STS emerged...

with technology.[page needed] Early scholarship on technology was split between two arguments: technological determinism, and social construction. Technological...

Bijker's social construction of technology framework and Callon and Latour's actor-network theory. These have a common feature of criticism of the linear...

The social construction of gender is a theory in the humanities and social sciences about the manifestation of cultural origins, mechanisms, and corollaries...

while social constructivism focuses on cognition, social constructionism focuses on the making of social reality. A very simple example is an object like...

advisory and information technology firm Gartner to represent the maturity, adoption, and social application of specific technologies. The hype cycle claims...

desired. Sociological theories and researches of the Society and the Social focus on how human and technology actually interact and may even affect each...

descriptions of redirect targets Science, technology, society and environment education Sexism in the technology industry Social construction of technology – Theory...

Technology, society and life or technology and culture refers to the inter-dependency, co-dependence, co-influence, and co-production of technology and...

controlled current flow by influencing the flow of individual electrons, and enabled the construction of equipment that used current amplification and rectification...

The history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques by humans. Technology includes methods ranging from as simple as stone...

process of invention, innovation and diffusion of technology or processes. In essence, technological change covers the invention of technologies (including...

the records of English medieval boroughs, applied to householders who were assessed for a borough tax Social construction of technology (SCOT), theory...

book-oriented humanities and social sciences are underdeveloped relative to those available for journal-oriented science and technology". The RIMS proposed what...

empirical programme of relativism." Social studies of science (1981): 3-10. in JSTOR Wiebe E. Bijker, et al. The social construction of technological systems:...

Technology transfer (TT), also called transfer of technology (TOT), is the process of transferring (disseminating) technology from the person or organization...

that a society's technology progresses by following its own internal logic of efficiency, while determining the development of the social structure and cultural...

philosophy of technology is a sub-field of philosophy that studies the nature of technology and its social effects. Philosophical discussion of questions...

approaches and concepts used under the field of technology dynamics. Social construction of technology Actor–network theory Systems theory Normalization...

imperfectly. Postpositivists also draw from social constructionism in forming their understanding and definition of reality. While positivists believe that...

postmodern social construction of nature is a theorem or speculation of postmodernist continental philosophy that poses an alternative critique of previous...

highest form of technology available. It can be defined as either the most complex or the newest technology on the market. The opposite of high tech is...

Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture. Courier Corporation. pp. 86–90. ISBN 9780486264851. Faiella, Graham (2006). The Technology of Mesopotamia....

by 'technocrats' who believe in the inevitability of social progress through science and technology. The philosopher-sociologist Jürgen Habermas has critiqued...

essayistic cinema of Michael Moore or Morgan Spurlock. In a book published in September 2009 titled Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern...

of technology, including social, economic and ecological implications, and not personal benefit need to be considered before adoption of technology into...

physics, chemistry, and biology), which study the physical world; the social sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology), which study individuals...

Diffusion of innovations is a theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread. The theory was popularized by Everett...