Kommentar |
The seminar will introduce students to sociological theories and methods that investigate the relationship between technology and society. The majority of the course will be inspired by the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). The texts are a mix of theoretical discussions, historical approaches and ethnographic/situationalist research. We will explore concepts and topics such as sociotechnical systems, actor-networks, workplace studies, cyborgs, design and sociotechnical imaginaries. Students will be required to prepare each class with a written reading response. At the end of term, students will submit a book review of a publication of their choice. |
Literatur |
Indicative reading list:
Bijker, W. E., & Law, J. (Eds.). (1992). Shaping technology/building society: Studies in sociotechnical change. MIT Press.
Haraway, D. (2013). A Cyborg Manfiesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century. In Simians, Cyborgs, and Women (0 ed., pp. 149–181). Routledge.
Jasanoff, S., & Kim, S.-H. (Eds.). (2015). Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power. University of Chicago Press.
Law, J. (2002). Aircraft stories: Decentering the object in technoscience. Duke University Press.
Star, S. L. (1990). Power, technology and the phenomenology of conventions: on being allergic to onions. The Sociological Review, 38(1_suppl), 26-56
Suchman, L. (2007). Human-machine reconfigurations: Plans and situated actions. Cambridge University Press.
Wajcman, J. (2010). ‘Feminist Theories of Technology’. Cambridge Journal of Economics 34(1), 143–52. |