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Berlin keys to the sociology of technology / Cornelius Schubert, Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, editors.

This volume offers a cross-section of a good fifteen years of research in the sociology of technology and innovation at the Sociology of Technology working group at the Technical University of Berlin. All contributions in this volume were initiated or discussed there and thus bear in a certain sense...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Schubert, Cornelius, Schulz-Schaeffer, Ingo
Other title:Berliner Schlüssel zur Techniksoziologie. English.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Wiesbaden : Springer VS, [2023]
Subjects:
Technology > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Berlin Keys to the Sociology of Technology
  • 1 Part I: Distributed Action and the Agency of Things
  • 2 Part II: Innovation as an Object and a Question
  • 3 Part III: Heterogeneous Socio-technical Assemblies
  • References
  • Part I: Distributed Action and the Agency of Things
  • Technology and Action. A Theory of Action Analysis
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Three Dimensions of Action and Their Distribution Between Human Actors and Technological Artifacts
  • 2.1 Starting Point: The Use of Technological Artifacts in Instrumental Rational Action
  • 2.2 Technological Artifacts and the Effective and the Regulatory Dimension of Action
  • 2.3 The Relationship Between the Technically Objectified Meaning of Action and the Intentional Dimension of Action
  • 2.4 The Differentiation of the Regulative and the Intentional Dimension of Action and Its Consequences
  • 2.5 The Particular Importance of the Regulatory Dimension of Action
  • 3 Attribution of Action
  • 4 Technology as an Institutional Reality
  • 5 Summary
  • References
  • Technology, Action and Practice: The Concept of Gradual Action Revisited
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Concept of Gradual Action Revisited
  • 2.1 The Level of Transformative Capacity
  • 2.2 The Level of Being Able to Act Differently
  • 2.3 The Level of Intentional Action
  • 3 Distributed Action as Socio-material Practice
  • 4 The Institutionalization of Technology in Distributed Action
  • 4.1 Institutionalization of Technology Through Objectification of Typical Actions
  • 4.2 Institutionalization of Technology Through Objectification of Past History
  • 4.3 Institutionalization of Technology as Multiple Integration
  • 5 Conclusion
  • References
  • The Analysis of the Reflexive Institutionalization of Technology as Part of Empirical Research on Differentiation
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Institutionalised Composite Act and Distributed Action
  • 3 The Lived Body and Tool Use
  • 4 Lived Bodyś Use of Technology and the Institutionalization of Intended Uses
  • 4.1 Technology as a Practical and Communicative Proposal of Meaning
  • 4.2 Complex Composite Acts
  • 4.3 Digital Spacetime as a Construction Medium for Advanced Artifacts
  • 5 Recursive Technology Development
  • 6 Reflexive Institutionalization and Recursive Technology Development
  • 6.1 Reflexive Institutionalisation
  • 6.2 Technization of Reflexive Institutionalization
  • References
  • Technical and Human Embodiments of the Social
  • 1 Introduction: The Weight of Things and Bodies for Society
  • 2 Human and Technical Embodiments of Society
  • 3 Body and Technology: From a Sociological Perspective
  • 3.1 Key Statements of Some Classics
  • 3.2 Recent Positions of Social and Sociological Theory
  • 3.3 Body-Technology-Relations in Medicine
  • 3.4 Human-Technology Interactions at Computer Interfaces

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