Journal articles: '160808 Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology'

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Lynch, Michael. "Social Constructivism in Science and Technology Studies." Human Studies 39, no. 1 (March 2016): 101–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10746-016-9385-5.

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Heath, Christian, Hubert Knoblauch, and Paul Luff. "Technology and social interaction: the emergence of ‘workplace studies’." British Journal of Sociology 51, no. 2 (June 2000): 299–320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2000.00299.x.

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Hess, David J. "Technology- and Product-Oriented Movements: Approximating Social Movement Studies and Science and Technology Studies." Science, Technology, & Human Values 30, no. 4 (October 2005): 515–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0162243905276499.

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Woolgar, Steve. "The Turn to Technology in Social Studies of Science." Science, Technology, & Human Values 16, no. 1 (January 1991): 20–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016224399101600102.

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Hess, David J. "Publics as Threats? Integrating Science and Technology Studies and Social Movement Studies." Science as Culture 24, no. 1 (December 24, 2014): 69–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2014.986319.

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Star, Susan Leigh. "Epilogue: Work and Practice in Social Studies of Science, Medicine, and Technology." Science, Technology, & Human Values 20, no. 4 (October 1995): 501–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016224399502000406.

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Nguyen, Josef. "Make Magazine and the Social Reproduction of DIY Science and Technology." Cultural Politics 12, no. 2 (July 1, 2016): 233–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/17432197-3592124.

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This analysis of Make, a US parenting magazine, focuses on how the periodical attempts to democratize science and technology through do-it-yourself (DIY) politics by rendering it a problem of child-rearing. Positioning the magazine within a broader context of contemporary interest in making and DIY practices, I argue that Make magazine deploys constructions of creative children to naturalize risk-taking as integral to future innovations, as a response to tensions between risks and responsibility underlying DIY modes of science and technology. Make magazine’s content performs what I define as the workshop-function, which distributes protocols through mass media for inaugurating spaces of scientific work outside of professional laboratories run by amateur scientific and technologic subjects. Make magazine highlights how DIY science and making intersects the politics of social reproduction, since the creation of amateur workshops and their operation become integral functions of the home, tying citizenship and political legitimacy to domestic labor in support of scientific and technological innovation.

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Duke, Shaul A. "Classical sociology meets technology: Doing independent large-scope research." Current Sociology 66, no. 7 (April 21, 2017): 977–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392117702428.

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During his short-lived but highly productive career, C Wright Mills put forth a vision for how sociology should be done. Two central directives can be gleaned from this vision: to tackle macro social theory issues by doing large-scope research; to achieve scholastic independence by doing non-administrative research. One might ask if Mills is sending scholars on a mission impossible. Analysing these two concepts in terms of both their merits and applicability, the present article indeed identifies a conflict between them, highlighted by what emerges as Mills’ own failure to realize this vision. After deeming these directives worthy goals, the article seeks to determine whether technological advances in the social sciences have the potential to allow both directives to be fulfilled at once. What is shown is that while the technology is ripe to enable autonomous big studies, its implementation by institutional and individual agents severely impedes the vision’s realization.

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Howard, Christopher A. "Book review: Technology and Social Theory." Thesis Eleven 132, no. 1 (January 26, 2016): 118–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513615596401.

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Kling, Rob. "Audiences, Narratives, and Human Values in Social Studies of Technology." Science, Technology, & Human Values 17, no. 3 (July 1992): 349–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016224399201700305.

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Kumar, David D., and James W. Altschuld. "Science, Technology, and Society." American Behavioral Scientist 47, no. 10 (June 2004): 1358–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764204264260.

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Nikolina, Nadezhda V. "Civil skepticism, trust and the rehabilitation of skepticism in social studies of science and technology." Philosophy of Science and Technology 27, no. 1 (2022): 59–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/2413-9084-2022-27-1-59-69.

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The article reveals the concept of “civilized skepticism” proposed by M. Ramirez-i-Olle as a solution to the problem of the relationship between skepticism and trust in the production of scientific knowledge. The basis of the work is the study of skepticism as a practice in the process of interaction between members of the scientific community, carried out by M. Ramirez-i-Olle from 2016 to 2019. Skepticism as a practice of interaction between scientists needed to be rehabilitated because it has been suggested that skepticism does not foster trusting relationships. “Civil skepticism” was proposed as a rehabilitation of skepticism in scientific practice, and primarily in the social study of technology. Using the example of three years of empirical work by dendroclimatologists, M. Ramirez-i-Olle demonstrates the stages in which skepticism was practiced: laboratory work, seminar, conference, and publication. The paper deduces characteristics corresponding to these stages, which are also characteristics of “civil skepticism”: temporality, materiality, discursiveness and performativity. The practice of “civil skepticism” not only fosters trusting relationships between members of the scientific community in the process of knowledge production, but also expands the so-called “core group” of scientists involved in the work. Despite the fact that we can make a number of comments related to the use of the term “skepticism” and the interpretation of some concepts, the study of M. Ramirez-i-Olle is relevant and important for the development of SSK and STS, as it puts a “point” in the issue of the opposition of skepticism and trust in the process of scientific knowledge production. In addition, M. Ramirez-i-Olle touches on problems of the sociology of scientific knowledge that need to be addressed, such as the concept of “sociological skepticism”, studies of agnotology and the sociology of ignorance in the STS, and their relevance in the era of “post-truth”.

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Stroikos, Dimitrios. "China, India, and the social construction of technology in international society: The English School meets Science and Technology Studies." Review of International Studies 46, no. 5 (September 2, 2020): 713–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210520000273.

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AbstractIn recent years, there has been a growing scholarly interest in how International Relations theory can contribute to our understanding of the impact of technology on global politics, underpinned mainly by an engagement with Science and Technology Studies (STS). However, less attention has been paid to the ways in which international society shapes technology. Building on sociological and historical studies of science and technology, this article outlines one way through which international society has constituted technology by developing a synthetic account of the emergence of technological advancement as a ‘standard of civilisation’ in the nineteenth century that differentiated the ‘society of civilised states’ from non-European societies, with a particular focus on China and India. In doing so, this article also highlights how this process has had a powerful and enduring influence on Chinese and Indian conceptions about science and technology. Thus, by shifting the focus from how technology shapes global politics to how international society shapes technology, this article provides new insights into the relationship between technology, power, and modernity in an interdisciplinary context. It also offers a new way of thinking about the complex dynamics of today's global politics of technology.

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Godler, Yigal, Zvi Reich, and Boaz Miller. "Social epistemology as a new paradigm for journalism and media studies." New Media & Society 22, no. 2 (January 20, 2020): 213–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444819856922.

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Journalism and media studies lack robust theoretical concepts for studying journalistic knowledge generation. More specifically, conceptual challenges attend the emergence of big data and algorithmic sources of journalistic knowledge. A family of frameworks apt to this challenge is provided by “social epistemology”: a young philosophical field which regards society’s participation in knowledge generation as inevitable. Social epistemology offers the best of both worlds for journalists and media scholars: a thorough familiarity with biases and failures of obtaining knowledge, and a strong orientation toward best practices in the realm of knowledge-acquisition and truth-seeking. This article articulates the lessons of social epistemology for two central nodes of knowledge-acquisition in contemporary journalism: human-mediated knowledge and technology-mediated knowledge.

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Goggins, Sean, and Eva Petakovic. "Connecting Theory to Social Technology Platforms." American Behavioral Scientist 58, no. 10 (April 7, 2014): 1376–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764214527093.

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Frey, Philipp, Simon Schaupp, and Klara-Aylin Wenten. "Towards Emancipatory Technology Studies." NanoEthics 15, no. 1 (April 2021): 19–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11569-021-00388-6.

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Graham, Roderick, and Kyungsub Stephen Choi. "Explaining African-American Cell Phone Usage Through the Social Shaping of Technology Approach." Journal of African American Studies 20, no. 1 (September 29, 2015): 19–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12111-015-9317-x.

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Sismondo, Sergio. "Bourdieu’s Rationalist Science of Science: Some Promises and Limitations." Cultural Sociology 5, no. 1 (January 31, 2011): 83–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749975510389728.

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At several points over his career, Pierre Bourdieu articulated a framework for a sociology of science, derived mostly from a priori reasoning about scientific actors in competition for capital. This article offers a brief overview of Bourdieu’s framework, placing it in the context of dominant trends in Science and Technology Studies. Bourdieu provides an excellent justification for the project of the sociology of science, and some starting points for analysis. However, his framework suffers from his commitment to a vague evolutionary epistemology, and from his correlative and surprising neglect of science’s habituses, with their particular practices, boundaries, and political economies. To be productive, Bourdieu’s sociology of science would have to abandon its narrow rationalism and embrace the material complexity of the sciences.

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Magaudda, Paolo. "The Broken Boundaries between Science and Technology Studies and Cultural Sociology: Introduction to an Interview with Trevor Pinch." Cultural Sociology 8, no. 1 (June 5, 2013): 63–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749975513484604.

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Sergeevna, Budovich Lidia. "Innovative Products Commercialization and Social Aspects." International Journal of Criminology and Sociology 10 (December 31, 2020): 326–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-4409.2021.10.40.

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Ideation, research, and technological innovation are valuable when they lead to wealth creation. Commercialization is a way to tie science to economics and create wealth from innovation. Success in technology development and commercialization requires a combination of several factors, including creative thinking, appropriate technical knowledge, entrepreneurial thinking and spirit, and financial resources. But it is rare for a single person to have all of these characteristics. Therefore, the best way to successfully commercialize technology is to create a team of four different personalities with the above characteristics: These four personalities are inventor/innovator, investor, technology, and entrepreneur. This article examines the definitions and concepts of commercialization and points to social and economic factors in the commercialization process - from ideation to the development of success and growth. Then proposed the formation of an innovation team as one of the strategies for commercialization success and expresses the characteristics of the innovation team and its members and their role in different stages of commercialization. Finally, to achieve more and better achievements in the field of commercialization, suggestions are presented according to the existing conditions.

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Müller, Christopher John, and David Mellor. "Utopia inverted: Günther Anders, technology and the social." Thesis Eleven 153, no. 1 (August 2019): 3–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513619865638.

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Maienschein, Jane, John N. Parker, Manfred Laubichler, and Edward J. Hackett. "Data Management and Data Sharing in Science and Technology Studies." Science, Technology, & Human Values 44, no. 1 (September 18, 2018): 143–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0162243918798906.

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This paper presents reports on discussions among an international group of science and technology studies (STS) scholars who convened at the US National Science Foundation (January 2015) to think about data sharing and open STS. The first report, which reflects discussions among members of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), relates the potential benefits of data sharing and open science for STS. The second report, which reflects discussions among scholars from many professional STS societies (i.e., European Association for the Study of Science and Technology [ EASST], 4S, Society for the History of Technology [ SHOT], History of Science Society [ HSS], and Philosophy of Science Association [ PSA]), focuses on practical and conceptual issues related to managing, storing, and curating STS data. As is the case for all reports of such open discussions, a scholar’s presence at the meeting does not necessarily mean that they agree with all aspects of the text to follow.

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Roth, Wolff-Michael, Michelle K. McGinn, and G. Michael Bowen. "Applications of Science and Technology Studies: Effecting Change in Science Education." Science, Technology, & Human Values 21, no. 4 (October 1996): 454–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016224399602100404.

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Prell, Christina. "Rethinking the Social Construction of Technology through ‘Following the Actors’: A Reappraisal of Technological Frames." Sociological Research Online 14, no. 2 (March 2009): 36–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.1913.

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In this paper, I summarize case study research on an information system called Connected Kids. This case study was guided by an approach to technology studies called the ‘Social construction of technology’ or SCOT Pinch and Bijker (1984). In discussing Connected Kids, I illustrate many of SCOT's main tenents, e.g. the various social interactions that surround and influence technology design. As the paper progresses, however, I focus on one concept in particular, that being SCOT's notion of a ‘technological frame,’ which is used as a catch-all concept for handling the structural influences in technology design. My discussion and illustration of this concept shows that – whilst technological frames help an analyst understand, in general terms, the role structure(s) play in shaping technology – the ‘heterogeneity’ of technological frames can cloak the more obvious, and potentially most influential, forces at work in technology design. In the case of Connected kids, the role of resources, and which actors had access to these resources, was critical in pointing Connected Kids down a particular trajectory. Further, this discovery emerged from listening carefully to respondents’ comments on the role of resources in their community. These comments, and my own observations on how resource-access propelled certain actors into a leadership position, led to my developing an alternative method for analyzing technological frames. The implications of this analysis are then discussed within the context of SCOT and technology studies more generally.

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Miranda, Isabel, Michelle Lopez, and Maria Clara Couto Soares. "Social technology network: paths for sustainability." Innovation and Development 1, no. 1 (April 2011): 151–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2157930x.2011.556470.

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Sinyukova, Natalja A., and Sergey A. Smirnov. "Between ethics and technology: Metamorphosis of ethical expertise." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies 37, no. 4 (2021): 635–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2021.405.

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This article analyses the fluidity of a human condition in terms of ethical boundaries. Recent technological developments have made the ethical framework of the notion of a human volatile and prone to revaluation. This revaluation requires established practices of conduct and interpretation of an ethical expertise. The article describes such new forms and ways to make them part of the repertoire of established institutions. In addition, the article differentiates the specifics of an ethical expertise and a humanitarian one. The former is focused on protecting the human condition from technologically-borne distortions and on making such protection a part of political and social institutions. The latter, in turn, is designed for the purposes of social engineering. It is supposed to help in the development of new social contexts, including ones that merge humanity with the results of high-tech endeavours. An ethical expertise is more focused on preserving the status quo. A humanitarian expertise is proactive and based on non-linear social foresights. The authors believe the reactionary nature of an ethical expertise to be the result of widespread shifts in the established definition of a human. This can be easily illustrated in such fields as biomedicine and gene research. Namely gene editing and major organ transplants can blur the line between human and non-human entities. The article points out an ongoing deficiency, on a methodological and conceptual level, when it comes to a humanitarian expertise. Furthermore, the article contains the groundwork for articulation of a humanitarian expertise. This form of expertise is unique due to its institutional nature and inclusion of the role of “researcher-participant,” which an expert is supposed to play. While elaborating on the differences between a humanitarian and an ethical expertise, it is noted that an ethical expertise aims at preserving the existing norms and boundaries of the notion of a human, outlined in treatise and conventions, while a humanitarian expertise strives to recreate the norm of a human in accordance with its new state — as a fluid and dynamic category.

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Taschwer, Klaus. "Science as system vs. science as practice: Luhmann's sociology of science and recent approaches in science and technology studies (STS)—a fragmentary confrontation." Social Science Information 35, no. 2 (June 1996): 215–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/053901896035002003.

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The last twenty years not only saw the development of a distinctive systems theory by Niklas Luhmann, but also the emergence of a transdisciplinary field called science and technology studies (STS), which emanated from the older sociology of science. This contribution is dedicated to a basic confrontation of theoretical approaches in “new” STS with Luhmann's sociology of science as a part of his theory of society. On the one hand, I want to depict some similarities between both approaches, i.e. the linguistic/semiotic turn, relativism and reflexivism. On the other hand, in the second section, I try to show some of the major differences between recent STS theories and Luhmann's autopoietic systems theory. Basic distinctions are identified with regard to the perception of science (closed system vs. “seamless web”) and the different scope of the theories. This finally leads to the modest conclusion that these conceptualizations can hardly be integrated and thus reflect the complexity of contemporary science - both as “subject” and “object”.

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Ovitt, Jr., George. "Appropriate Technology: Development and Social Change." Monthly Review 40, no. 9 (February 3, 1989): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.14452/mr-040-09-1989-02_3.

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Varma, Roli, and Lisa M. Frehill. "Special Issue on Science and Technology Workforce." American Behavioral Scientist 53, no. 7 (February 9, 2010): 943–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764209356229.

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Neag, Annamaria, and Julian Sefton-Green. "Embodied technology use:." MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 37, no. 71 (January 3, 2022): 009–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v37i71.125346.

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For unaccompanied refugee youth, technology occupies a central role in their lives. It helps them when crossing countries, finding a shelter, and accessing education, or even in negotiating family relations online (e.g., Çelikaksoy & Wadensjö, 2017; Marlowe & Bruns, 2020; Morrice et al., 2020). Research with young refugees shows that social media and smart devices have become essential means to resolve many challenges (Kutscher & Kreß, 2018). The aim of our article is to go beyond a utilitarian view of digital technologies and social media in the lives of migrant youth and show how digital actions can be extensions of bodily communications in relation to, for instance, locating the self within new cities, food, music, and religion. We introduce the concept of the migrant platformed body as a site of struggle for unity that brings past and present into continuous discussion in and through the uses of social media technologies.

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Oyekan, Adeolu Oluwaseyi. "Technology and social cohesion: deploying artificial intelligence in mediating herder-farmer conflicts in Nigeria." Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 9, no. 3 (February 18, 2021): 15–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ft.v9i3.2.

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This paper argues for the role of technology, such as artificial intelligence, which includes machine learning, in managing conflicts between herders and farmers in Nigeria. Conflicts between itinerant Fulani herders and farmers over the years have resulted in the destruction of lives, properties, and the displacement of many indigenous communities across Nigeria, with devastating social, economic and political consequences. Over time, the conflicts have morphed into ethnic stereotypes, allegations of ethnic cleansing, forceful appropriation and divisive entrenchment of labels that are inimical to national existence. The reality of climate change and increased urbanization suggest that conflicts are likely to exacerbate over shrinking resources in the near future. Finding solutions to the conflicts, therefore requires innovative thinking capable of addressing the limits of past approaches. While mindful of the human and political dimension of the conflicts, I argue using the method of philosophical analysis that technology possesses the capacity for social transformation, and make a case for the modernization of grazing culture and the curbing of crossborder grazing through machine learning (ML) and other forms of artificial intelligence. Machine Learning represents a transformative technology that addresses the security challenges of irregular migration, accommodates the nomadic and subsistent mode of farming associated with the conflicting parties while enabling a gradual but stable transition to full modernization. I conclude that machine learning holds many prospects for minimizing conflicts and attaining social cohesion between herders and farmers when properly complemented by other mechanisms of social cohesion that may be political in nature.

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Hoffmeister, Thaddeus, and Ann Charles Watts. "Social Media, the Internet, and Trial by Jury." Annual Review of Law and Social Science 14, no. 1 (October 13, 2018): 259–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-101317-031221.

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This review starts with a historical overview of trial by jury and then moves to a discussion of media and communication. This is followed by an examination of the advantages and disadvantages associated with jurors and digital technology. The heart of the article is a review of six scholarly studies that attempt to explain why jurors use the Internet, as well as methods for combating such use. The article concludes with recommendations for future areas of research.

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Drott, Eric. "Music in the Work of Social Reproduction." Cultural Politics 15, no. 2 (July 1, 2019): 162–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/17432197-7515028.

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This article interrogates music’s role in the work of social reproduction by bringing into dialogue two seemingly antithetical approaches to thinking music’s relation to the social. One is historical materialism; the other is work informed by the “practice turn” in music sociology, exemplified by Tia DeNora’s studies of music as a “technology of the self.” By taking seriously the proposition that under certain conditions music may itself function as a technology, and by reframing this proposition along materialist lines, this article aims to shed light on the changing functions music has come to assume in late neoliberalism. In particular, new modalities of digital distribution like streaming, by simultaneously driving down the cost of music and normalizing its therapeutic, prosthetic, and self-regulatory uses, increasingly cast it as a cheap resource that can be harnessed to replenish the cognitive, affective, and/or communicative energies strained by the current crisis of social reproduction.

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Gad, Christopher, and David Ribes. "The Conceptual and the Empirical in Science and Technology Studies." Science, Technology, & Human Values 39, no. 2 (February 10, 2014): 183–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0162243914522304.

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Giere, Ronald N. "Science and Technology Studies: Prospects for an Enlightened Postmodern Synthesis." Science, Technology, & Human Values 18, no. 1 (January 1993): 102–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016224399301800106.

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Schroeder, Ralph. "Disenchantment and its Discontents: Weberian Perspectives on Science and Technology." Sociological Review 43, no. 2 (May 1995): 227–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1995.tb00602.x.

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Weber's ideas about science and technology have largely been neglected by comparison with his views of modern politics and economics. Yet his notion of disenchantment is central to his conception of modern society and to his comparative studies of the rise of Western rationalism. This importance is underlined by the use to which Weber's ideas have been put by two contemporary thinkers. Ernest Gellner extends the notion of disenchantment in his account of the cognitive style of industrial society, but argues that it does not necessarily pose the threat which Weber's cultural pessimism suggests. Randall Collins, on the other hand, develops a Weberian account of the social basis for technological change, arguing that geopolitical centres give rise to technological innovation. In view of the urgency of the question of the role of science and technology in modern society, these Weberian perspectives provide an important theoretical tool since they offer a framework in which this question can be addressed.

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Henwood, Flis, and Benjamin Marent. "Understanding digital health: Productive tensions at the intersection of sociology of health and science and technology studies." Sociology of Health & Illness 41, S1 (October 2019): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12898.

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McGrail, Robert. "Reviews: Graeme Kirkpatrick, Technology and Social Power. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)." Thesis Eleven 101, no. 1 (May 2010): 130–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513610364236.

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Stoliarova, Olga E. "Who Studies the Studies of Science and Technology? On the Principle of Reflexivity from Empirical and Theoretical Points of View." Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 59, no. 4 (2022): 21–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/eps202259453.

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The article discusses the methodological principle of reflexivity as formulated within the strong program of the sociology of scientific knowledge (STS). The applicability of this principle in science and technology studies is analyzed from empirical and theoretical points of view. The principle of reflexivity expresses the requirement of scientific universalism: it forbids the exclusion of one’s own cognitive activity and its results (knowledge) from the world totality of objectively observable things and processes, in this case – beliefs. In D. Bloor’s imperative formulation, the principle prescribes applying the explanatory methodology of the strong program in relation to the strong program’s own fundamental theoretical and methodological concepts. The implementation of this principle in STS faces practical problems and theoretical paradoxes. In line with the methodology of the strong program, the author asks the question about the social conditions of the failure of the principle of reflexivity. The author shows that empirically cognizable social conditions for the realization of the principle of reflexivity can be fulfilled. However, their fulfillment does not lead to reflexive work, which presupposes an external position of the one who explains in relation to what is explained. In accordance with the postpositivist concept of the underdetermination of theory by facts, the external position is achieved through the speculative transition from the factual given to the hypothesis explaining this given. The author shows that the external position taken by internal critics of the STS research community becomes the position of speculative philosophy.

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Motta, Renata, and Eloísa Martín. "Food and social change: Culinary elites, contested technologies, food movements and embodied social change in food practices." Sociological Review 69, no. 3 (May 2021): 503–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380261211009468.

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In this introduction, we have asked a very classical sociological question and brought together interdisciplinary efforts to critically approach it, focusing on a basic issue: food. We briefly reconstruct the main approaches to social change in sociological theory and then identify main themes with which food studies have contributed to this debate. If, to avoid normative and formal approaches, theories of change require contextualization in order to keep their explanatory value, this volume brings historical and geographical context to provide an analysis of social change through the lenses of food. Methodologically, articles offer diverse approaches to food, allowing different kinds of perspectives on change. While statistical analysis or historically comparative sociology will provide correlational snapshots and structural transformations, ethnographies necessarily deal with change happening in the everyday. The articles in this monograph have been organized into four broad groups: (1) national cuisines as elite projects of social change; (2) science and technology as contested tools for social change; (3) social mobilization and food movements as agents of social change; and (4) micro- and macro-level change and beyond: culinary subjectivities, embodied social change and food transition.

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Mylan, Josephine, and Dale Southerton. "The Social Ordering of an Everyday Practice: The Case of Laundry." Sociology 52, no. 6 (September 8, 2017): 1134–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038517722932.

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Sociological contributions to debates surrounding sustainable consumption have presented strong critiques of methodological individualism and technological determinism. Drawing from a range of sociological insights from the fields of consumption, everyday life and science and technology studies, these critiques emphasize the recursivity between (a) everyday performances and object use, and (b) how those performances are socially ordered. Empirical studies have, however, been criticized as being descriptive of micro-level phenomena to the exclusion of explanations of processes of reproduction or change. Developing a methodological approach that examines sequences of activities this article explores different forms of coordination (activity, inter-personal and material) that condition the temporal and material flows of laundry practices. Doing so produces an analysis that de-centres technologies and individual performances, allowing for the identification of mechanisms that order the practice of laundry at the personal, household and societal levels. These are: social relations; cultural conventions; domestic materiality; and institutionalized temporal rhythms. In conclusion, we suggest that addressing such mechanisms offers fruitful avenues for fostering more sustainable consumption, compared to dominant approaches that are founded within ‘deficit models’ of action.

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Layne, Linda L. "The Cultural Fix: An Anthropological Contribution to Science and Technology Studies." Science, Technology, & Human Values 25, no. 3 (July 2000): 352–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016224390002500305.

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Layne, Linda L. "The Cultural Fix: An Anthropological Contribution to Science and Technology Studies." Science, Technology, & Human Values 25, no. 4 (October 2000): 492–519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016224390002500405.

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Marris, Claire, and Jane Calvert. "Science and Technology Studies in Policy: The UK Synthetic Biology Roadmap." Science, Technology, & Human Values 45, no. 1 (February 12, 2019): 34–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0162243919828107.

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In this paper, we reflect on our experience as science and technology studies (STS) researchers who were members of the working group that produced A Synthetic Biology Roadmap for the UK in 2012. We explore how this initiative sought to govern an uncertain future and describe how it was successfully used to mobilize public funds for synthetic biology from the UK government. We discuss our attempts to incorporate the insights and sensibilities of STS into the policy process and why we chose to use the concept of responsible research and innovation to do so. We analyze how the roadmapping process, and the final report, narrowed and transformed our contributions to the roadmap. We show how difficult it is for STS researchers to influence policy when our ideas challenge deeply entrenched pervasive assumptions, framings, and narratives about how technological innovation necessarily leads to economic progress, about public reticence as a roadblock to that progress, and about the supposed separation between science and society. We end by reflecting on the constraints under which we were operating from the outset and on the challenges for STS in policy.

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Vostal, Filip. "Acceleration Approximating Science and Technology Studies: On Judy Wajcman’s Recent Oeuvre." Science, Technology, & Human Values 44, no. 4 (May 2019): 686–706. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0162243919845140.

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Ell, Kathleen, Shinyi Wu, Jeffrey Guterman, Sandra-Gross Schulman, Laura Sklaroff, and Pey-Jiuan Lee. "Comparative Studies of Collaborative Team Depression Care Adoption in Safety Net Clinics." Research on Social Work Practice 28, no. 2 (March 31, 2016): 154–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049731516639140.

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Purpose: To evaluate three approaches adopting collaborative depression care model in Los Angeles County safety net clinics with predominantly Latino type 2 diabetes patients. Methods: Pre–post differences in treatment rates and symptom reductions were compared between baseline, 6-month, and 12-month follow-ups for each approach: (a) Multifaceted Depression and Diabetes Program (MDDP) grant–hired social workers dedicated for depression care, (b) Diabetes–Depression Care-Management Adoption Trial (DCAT) supported care (SC) by clinic social workers in diabetes disease management teams, and (c) DCAT-automated care-management technology-facilitated care (TC) model. All social workers were guided by a depression care protocol. Results: All approaches significantly increased treatment rate, the largest improvement being MDDP (40%), followed by TC (30%) and then SC (20%). Similar patterns were found in symptom improvement (≥50% depression score reductions) and self-rated health. TC was the only approach to significantly improve patient diabetes self-care. Discussion: Activated social workers and technology facilitation provide promising effective adoption of collaborative depression team care in safety net.

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Bear, Christopher, Katy Wilkinson, and Lewis Holloway. "Visualizing Human-Animal-Technology Relations." Society & Animals 25, no. 3 (June 1, 2017): 225–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685306-12341405.

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This paper explores the potential for less anthropocentric approaches to researching human-nonhuman relations through visual ethnography, critically examining the conceptualization of nonhuman animals as participants. Arguing that method in animal studies has developed more slowly than theory, it proposes visual approaches as a way of foregrounding nonhuman animals’ behavior and actions in “social” research. Questioning the meaning of “participation,” this challenges underlying anthropocentric assumptions of visual ethnography. The paper presents a comparison of approaches used in studying sites, moments and movements of robotic milking on United Kingdom dairy farms: field notes, still photography, and digital video. While visual approaches are not a panacea for more-than-human research, we suggest that they offer a means through which nonhumans might “speak for themselves.” Rather than presenting definitive accounts, including video in such work also leaves the actions of nonhumans open to further interpretation, destabilizing the centrality of the researcher.

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Harper, Peter. "Alternative Technology and Social Organisation in an Institutional Setting." Science as Culture 25, no. 3 (July 2, 2016): 415–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2016.1164406.

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ROTHSCHILD, JOAN. "Technology and Education." American Behavioral Scientist 32, no. 6 (July 1989): 708–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764289032006010.

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Hamilton, Carmen, and Constance Flanagan. "Reframing Social Responsibility Within a Technology-Based Youth Activist Program." American Behavioral Scientist 51, no. 3 (November 2007): 444–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764207306070.

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