The Turn to Technology in Social Studies of Science
The Turn to Technology in Social Studies of Science
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科学社会研究中技术的转向
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1991
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S. Woolgar
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本文考察了科学知识社会学（SSK）的特殊理论意义是如何受到试图将相对建构主义应用于技术的影响的。文章表明，SSK实践中未能面对关键的分析矛盾，已经损害了它最初的战略意义。特别是，SSK作为一个解释性公式的consumption减少了它的潜力，深刻地重新概念化的认识问题。对技术决定论的批评和一些实证研究的考虑，揭示了技术的社会研究（SST）中类似的分析矛盾。禁令考虑“技术作为文本”是批判性的审查。它的结论是，这一口号的自反性解释是必要的，以恢复一些知识论的意义失去了从SSK到SST的建构主义运动。
This article examines how the special theoretical significance of the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is affected by attempts to apply relativist-constructivism to technology. The article shows that the failure to confront key analytic ambivalences in the practice of SSK has compromised its original strategic significance. In particular, the construal of SSK as an explanatory formula diminishes its potential for profoundly reconceptualizing epistemic issues. A consideration of critiques of technological determinism, and of some empirical studies, reveals similar analytic ambivalences in the social study of technology (SST). The injunction to consider "technology as text" is critically examined. It is concluded that a reflexive interpretation of this slogan is necessary to recover some of the epistemological significance lost in the constructivist move from SSK to SST.