Living in a Material World - Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-262-16252-4
Verlag: MIT Press

Buch, Englisch, 411 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 626 g

Reihe: Inside Technology

Understanding the intersection of economic sociology and science and technology studies through the idea of materiality.Although social scientists generally agree that technology plays a key role in the economy, economics and technology have yet to be brought together into a coherent framework that is both analytically interesting and empirically oriented. This book draws on the tools of science and technology studies and economic sociology to reconceptualize the intersection of economy and technology, suggesting materiality—the idea that social existence involves not only actors and social relations but also objects—as the theoretical point of convergence. The contributors take up general concerns, such as individual agency in a network economy and the materiality of the household in economic history, as well as specific financial technologies such as the stock ticker, the trading room, and the telephone. Forms of infrastructure—accounting, global configurations of trading and information technologies, and patent law—are examined. Case studies of the impact of the Internet and information technology on consumption (e-commerce), the reputation economy (the rise of online reviews of products), and organizational settings (outsourcing of an IT system) round off this collection of essays.Contributors
Elizabeth Popp Berman, Daniel Beunza, Michel Callon, Karin Knorr Cetina, Shay David, Thomas F. Gieryn, Barbara Grimpe, David Hatherly, David Leung, Christian Licoppe, Donald MacKenzie, Philip Mirowski, Fabian Muniesa, Edward Nik-Khah, Trevor Pinch, Alex Preda, Nicholas J. Rowland, David Stark, Richard Swedberg

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pinch, Trevor

Swedberg, Richard

Weitere Mitwirkende

Callon, Michel

Swedberg, Richard

Mirowski, Philip

Nik-Khah, Eddie

Hatherly, David

Leung, David

Mackenzie, Donald

Cetina, Karin Knorr

Grimpe, Barbara

Berman, Elizabeth Popp

Preda, Alex

Beunza, Daniel

Stark, David

Muniesa, Fabian

Licoppe, Christian

David, Shay

Pinch, Trevor

Gieryn, Thomas F.

Rowland, Nicholas J.

Bijker, Wiebe E.

Carlson, W. Bernard

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Mackenzie, Donald
Donald MacKenzie is Professor of Sociology (Personal Chair) at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Inventing Accuracy (1990), Knowing Machines (1996), and Mechanizing Proof (2001), all published by the MIT Press. Portions of An Engine, not a Camera won the Viviana A. Zelizer Prize in economic sociology from the American Sociological Association.

Swedberg, Richard
Richard Swedberg is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He is the author of Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology, Principles of Economic Sociology, and other books.

Pinch, Trevor
Trevor Pinch is Goldwin Smith Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University and coeditor of The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (anniversary edition, MIT Press).

Pinch, Trevor
Trevor Pinch is Goldwin Smith Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University and coeditor of The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (anniversary edition, MIT Press).

Callon, Michel
Michel Callon, developer (with Bruno Latour and others) of Actor Network Theory, is Professor at the É cole des mines de Paris and a Researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de l'innovation there.

Swedberg, Richard
Richard Swedberg is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He is the author of Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology, Principles of Economic Sociology, and other books.

Muniesa, Fabian
Fabian Muniesa is Senior Researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), a research center of Mines ParisTech.

Pinch, Trevor
Trevor Pinch is Goldwin Smith Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University and coeditor of The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (anniversary edition, MIT Press).

Bijker, Wiebe E.
Wiebe E. Bijker is Professor at Maastricht University and the author of Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change (MIT Press) and other books.

Richard Swedberg is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He is the author of Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology, Principles of Economic Sociology, and other books.