Engineering and Sociology in a Military Aircraft Project: A Network Analysis of Technological Change
Engineering and Sociology in a Military Aircraft Project: A Network Analysis of Technological Change
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军用飞机项目中的工程与社会学：技术变革的网络分析
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1988
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M. Callon
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J. Law;M. Callon
在这篇文章中，我们分析了TSR2英国军用飞机项目，它始于20世纪50年代末的概念化，结束于1965年的取消。利用网络的概念，我们详细描述了社会和技术的根本相互联系的特征。我们追溯了TSR 2是如何构思、设计和开发的，然后考虑了遇到的困难和导致其取消的过程。我们的目标是推荐和说明一种社会分析方法，这种方法使工程师工作的技术方面具有深刻的社会性。通过仔细跟踪技术专家，我们可以看到他们创造的机器中包含的社交世界、机构和角色的种类。我们还看到了为适应这些概念而动员起来的各种对象。因此，技术上的问题是社会性的。
In this paper, we analyze the TSR 2 British military aircraft project, beginnning with its conceptualization in the late 1950s and ending in 1965 with its cancellation. Using the notion of network we detail the fundamentally interconnected character of the social and the technical. We trace how the TSR 2 was conceived, designed, and developed, then consider difficulties encountered and the process that led to its cancellation. Our aim is to recommend and illustrate a method of social analysis that takes the technical aspects of the engineer's work to be profoundly social. By carefully following technologists, we see the kinds of social worlds, institutions, and roles contained in the machines they create. We also see the diverse objects mobilized to fit these conceptions. The technical thus is social.