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A Critical Review of the Social Construction of Technology Thesis: Do Society Constructs Technology?

Shafi Khani, Mohamad Amin | 2019

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 51738 (42)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Philosophy of Science
  6. Advisor(s): Taqavi, Mostafa
  7. Abstract:
  8. However “The Social Construction of Technology (SCOT)” is the title of a thesis in the domain of Science and Technology Studies (STS), it has an important effect on the philosophy of technology. In this paper I try to elaborate and criticize SCOT’s approach. For this purpose we need to answer the question “what is Technology exactly?”. So in the first chapter, I defined Technology. After reviewing some of it’s famous definitions, I defined the joint of technologies based on the “Dual nature of technical artefacts” thesis. Because of the wide range of technologies, I have concentrated on “Technical Artefacts”, although I was not inattentive to other meanings of technology, especially sociotechnical systems. In the second chapter, I have attended to elaborating and criticizing SCOT. In the third chapter, I elaborated two alternative theses of SCOT, systems approach and heterogeneous engineering, then the “actant-network theory” as the supporter of heterogeneous engineering’s approach. For judging between this two alternatives, I elaborated the “technical design” concept and by it, reasoned for systems approach and against heterogeneous engineering. And finally I added some ideas to systems approach to complete it
  9. Keywords:
  10. Social Construction ; Technology Social Construction ; Technology ; Technical Artefact ; System Approach ; Heterogeneous Engineering ; Technical Artefacts Dual Nature

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