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Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs
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King of the road - the social construction of the safety bicycle; the fourth kingdom - the social construction of bakelite; the majesty of daylight - the social construction of fluorescent lighting; conclusion - the politics of sociotechnical change.

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Bijker has provided a useful text demonstrating the advantages of opening up technological phenomena to relativist inquiry...a valuable contribution to the important goal of redefining the relation between the technical and the nontechnical. -- Steve Woolgar New Scientist

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Wiebe E. Bijker is Professor at Maastricht University and the author of Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs- Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change (MIT Press) and other books.

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"Bijker has provided a useful text demonstrating the advantages ofopening up technological phenomena to relativist inquiry...a valuablecontribution to the important goal of redefining the relation betweenthe technical and the nontechnical." Steve Woolgar , New Scientist

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