Notes 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.
Donald 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.
"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
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