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ESST Core Literature and concepts

Science Studies:

Core concepts:

Sociology of science; sociology of scientific knowledge (strong program & controversy studies); actor network theory; construction of scientific facts; science wars; history of science; scientific revolution; laboratory studies; experiments; big science; university-industry-government complex; commercialization of science; intellectual property rights.

Hacking, Ian (1999). The Social Construction of What? Cambridge: Harvard University Press, chapter 3, pp. 63-99.

Hounshell, David A. (1992). Du Pont and the Management of Large-Scale Research and Development, in: Galison, Peter and Bruce Hevly (Eds.), Big science. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 236-261.

Kuhn, Thomas (1977). The Historical Structure of Scientific Discovery. In Thomas Kuhn. The Essential Tension. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 165-177.

Latour, B. (1987). Science in action: how to follow engineers and scientists through society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Introduction, pp. 1-17; chapter 2, pp. 63-100; chapter 3, pp. 103-144.

Merton, Robert K. (1942/1973). The normative structure of Science. In: The Sociology of Science. Chicago: Chicago University Press, pp. 267-280.

Nowotny, Helga, Peter Scott, and Michael Gibbons (Eds) (2001), Re-Thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty. London: Polity Press, preface and chapter 1, pp. vii-20.

Technology Studies:

Core concepts:

Technological determinism; social determinism, social construction of technology; large technological systems; industrial revolution; technological momentum; gender and technology; labour.

Bijker, Wiebe (1995). Of Bicycles, Bakelites and Bulbs. Cambridge, MIT Press. Introduction, pp. 1-18.

Faulkner, W. (2001). The Technology Question in Feminism: A view from feminist technology studies. Women's Studies International Forum, 24(1), pp. 79-95
Hughes, Thomas (1987). The evolution of Large Technological Systems. In: Bijker, W.E., Hughes T.P. & Pinch, T. (Eds.) (1987). The Social Construction of Technological Systems. New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. Cambridge MA.: MIT Press, pp. 51-82

Marx, Leo & Merrit Roe Smith (1998). Introduction. In Merrit Roe Smith & Leo Marx (Eds.), Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism. Cambridge, Mass./London: The MIT Press, pp. ix-xv.

Mokyr, Joel (1994). The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. Oxford: Oxford University Press, chapters 5 and 6, pp. 81-148.

Innovation Studies:

Core concepts:

systems of innovation; university-industry-government relationship; innovation policy; geography of innovation; opportunity, cumulativeness and appropriability; institutional changes; organisational innovation; inter-organisational networks; labour; entrepreneurship; tacit and codified knowledge; path-dependence; evolutionary approach; creative destruction; catching up; standardization.

Asheim, B. T. and Gertler, M. (2005). The Geography of Innovation: Regional Innovation Systems. In Fagerberg, J., D. Mowery and R. Nelson (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Innovation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 291-317

Edquist, C. (1997). Systems of Innovation Approaches: Their Emergence and Characteristics. In C. Edquist (Ed.). Systems of Innovation: Technologies, Organizations and Institutions. London: Pinter Publishers/Casell Academic, pp. 1-35.

Fagerberg, J. (2003). Schumpeter and the revival of evolutionary economics: an appraisal of the literature. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 13, pp. 125-159.

Freeman, C. & Perez C. (1988). Structural Crises of Adjustment. In Dosi, G. et al. (Eds.) Technical Change and Economic Theory. London: Pinter, pp. 38-66.

Lundvall, Bengt-Åke (Ed.) (1992). National Systems of Innovation – Towards a Theory of Innovation and Interactive Learning. London: Pinter, introduction, pp. 1-19.

Nelson, Richard and Nathan Rosenberg (1993). Technical Innovation and National Systems. In Richard Nelson and Nathan Rosenberg (Eds.), National Innovation Systems – A Comparative Analysis. New York: Oxford University Press, introduction, pp. 3-22.

Nonaka, I. (1991). The Knowledge Creating Company. Harvard Business Review. 69 (6), pp. 96-106.

Politics of Science and Technology:

Core concepts:

Governance; democratization; risk society, technology transfer; regulation; sustainable technology; decision-making; popularization of science; public participation; expertise; role of media; gender.

Beck, Ulrich (1992). On the logic of wealth distribution and risk distribution. In: Ulrich Beck, Risk Society. Towards a new Modernity. London: Sage Publications, pp. 19-50.

Oudshoorn, Nelly & Pinch, Trevor (2003). Introduction. In Oudshoorn, Nelly & Pinch, Trevor (Eds.). How Users Matter: The Co-construction of Users and Technology. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, pp. 1-28.

Star, S. L. (1991). Power, Technologies and the Phenomenology of Conventions: on being allergic to onions. In J. Law (Ed.). A sociology of Monsters: Essays on Power, Technology and Domination. London: Routledge, pp. 26-56.

Webster, Frank (2002). Theories of the Information Society, 2nd ed., London: Routledge, preface, Chapter 1, pp. 1-29; last chapter, pp. 263-273.

Winner, L. 1980. Do Artifacts have Politics? Daedaleus, 108, pp. 121-136.

Wyatt, Sally (2003). Non-Users also Matter: The Construction of Users and Non-users of the Internet. In Oudshoorn, Nelly & Pinch, Trevor, How Users Matter: The Co-construction of Users and Technology. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, pp. 67-80.

Wynne, Brian (1989), Sheepfarming after Chernobyl: A Case Study in Communicating Scientific Information. Environment, 31, pp. 10-15, 33-39.

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