Science & Technology Studies
Science and Technology Studies examines how science and technology are made and operate in society — the social construction of scientific knowledge, the co-evolution of technology and society, and questions of expertise and citizenship.
Theories (9) Science & Technology Studies 분야의 핵심 이론
A critical sociology of technology and economic theory analyzing a new economic logic that unilaterally claims human behavioral experience as free raw material for behavioral prediction and manipulation.
A foundational theoretical framework in sts addressing Actor-Network Theory at the meso level of analysis.
A radical cognitive science thesis proposing active externalism: cognitive processes are not confined to the biological brain/skull, but extend into the physical environment via continuous tool couplings.
A Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) framework demonstrating that artifacts possess interpretive flexibility, shaped by technological frames held by relevant social groups until closure is achieved.
An STS and organizational theory explaining how artifacts, diagrams, or classifications maintain enough plasticity to adapt to local needs while preserving a robust common identity across diverse intersecting communities.
An evolutionary economics and historical institutionalism theory showing that early, contingent events combined with increasing returns to scale can permanently lock society into inferior technological or institutional paths.
A foundational theoretical framework in sts addressing The Social Construction of Technology at the meso level of analysis.
A foundational sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) thesis asserting that all scientific claims—true and false, rational and irrational—must be explained impartially and symmetrically by social causes.
A revolutionary philosophy and sociology of science treatise showing that scientific progress is not linear accumulation, but punctuated by paradigm shifts driven by anomalous crises in normal science.