WTMC core literature

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Table of contents

1 Introduction

6 Some important WTMC Journals

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Introduction

The Dutch national research school WTMC seeks to analyze, understand and explain the manifold and intricate relationships between science, technology and modern culture. This, of course, is an interdisciplinary effort that draws from and contributes to various research traditions, each with their own literatures. In this overview we list the core literature of the research school WTMC. The aim of this list is threefold:

it provides an introduction to the intellectual and academic aspirations of WTMC;
it helps PhD students to locate their studies within a broader set of literatures;
it supports the ongoing reflection of research agendas within WTMC.

The list of core literature is organized into three categories: classics, introductions and research clusters. The first, the classics, is a list of books that operate as a landmark in the broad, yet distinguished field of WTMC research. These scholarly works have introduced a new perspective that has been proved to be useful - and they still inspire the today’s researchers. Their contribution to the field is uncontested, although their factual claims may have been challenged, as it should. The classics are systematically introduced and discussed in the WTMC PhD workshops.

The second list, of introductions, is in particular useful for new entrants in the field. The classics, of course, are also informative, but may require more background knowledge. The introductions provide an overview of the main perspectives, methods and findings of the research field of WTMC.

The third category, the research clusters, proposes a grouping of the many lines of research in WTMC. Within each of the clusters some key references and journals are suggested to orient the individual researcher. They are also used in the programmes of the PhD workshops. Together, the research clusters are a demonstration of the richness and excitement of the research school WTMC.

The overview ends with a list of journals that are important for the research school WTMC.

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Classics

Thomas S. Kuhn, 1970, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions). Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2nd ed.).
Karl R. Popper, 1963, Conjectures and Refutations. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
L. Fleck (1935), Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Tatsache. Einführung in die Lehre vom Denkstil und Denkkollektiv Schwabe und Co., Verlagsbuchhandlung, Basel (English translation: The Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979)
Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, (1979), Laboratory life: The social construction of scientific facts. London: Sage (2nd edition 1986)
Nathan Rosenberg, 1982, Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Derek J. de Solla Price, 1963, Little Science, Big Science, New York: Columbia University Press
Robert K. Merton, 1973, The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, esp. part 3, 4 and 5.
Lewis Mumford, 1934, Technics and Civilization. New York: Hracourt, Brace, and World Inc.
Michel Foucault, 1975, Surveiller et Punir. Parijs: Gallimard. Nederlandse vertaling 1989, Discipline, Toezicht en straf: de geboorte van de gevangenis, Groningen: Historische uitgeverij
Latour, B. (1987). Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Dosi, G., Freeman, C., Nelson, R., Silverberg, G., & Soete, L. (1988). Technical change and economic theory. London: Pinter.
Hughes, T. P. (1983). Networks of Power, Electrification in Western Society, 1880–1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
W. Bijker, T. P. Hughes & T. J. Pinch (Eds.), (1987) The social construction of technological systems, Cambridge: MIT Press.

M. Douglas (1987), How Institutions Think, 1987, London: Routledge.

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Introductions

Jasanoff, Sheila, Gerald E. Markle, James C. Petersen, and Trevor Pinch, eds. 1995. Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. London: Sage.

Biagioli, M., 1999, The science studies reader, New York and London: Routledge.

Sismondo, S. (2004). An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies. London: Blackwell Publishers

E. Hackett, O. Amsterdamska, M. Lynch, J. Wajcman eds. (2007) New Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society, Cambridge: MIT Press.

David J. Hess, 1997, Science Studies. An Advanced Introduction. New York: New York University Press.
Barry Barnes, David Bloor and John Henry, 1996, Scientific Knowledge. A Sociological Analysis. London: The Athlone Press.
Rob Hagendijk, 1996, Wetenschap, Constructivisme en Cultuur. Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam. (in Dutch).

Bauchspies, W. K., Croissant, J., & Restivo, S. (2006). Science, technology, and society: a sociological approach. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Sörensen, K. H., & Williams, R. (2002). Shaping Technology, Guiding Policy: Concepts, Spaces and Tools. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

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Research clusters

We think the various perspectives and themes within WTMC can be clustered into about 20 categories. See table. We also indicate the relative weight of the focus on Science (W), Technology (T) and/or Modern Culture (MC).

research cluster	focus on W, T or MC?
Sociology of science	W
Technology studies	T
Philosophy of science	W
Philosophy of technology	T
History of science	W
History of technology	T
Questioning modernity	MC
Innovation studies	T
Ethnography of science and technology	WT
Risk and uncertainty	TMC
Knowledge society	MC
Ethics of science and technology	MC
Cultural studies	MC
Governance of science and technology	WTMC
Public understanding of science and technology	WTMC
Technology assessment and participatory approaches	T
User studies	T
Scenarios and expectations	TMC
Sociology of health and the body	WTMC
Nature, space and environment	WTMC

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Key References

research cluster	some key references
Sociology of science	Bloor, David, 1991 [1976] Knowledge and Social Imagery, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2nd edition. Pickering, Andrew (ed.), 1992, Science as Practice and Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Whitley, Richard, 1985, The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Technology studies	MacKenzie and Wacjman, 1985 [2nd ed. 1999], The Social Shaping of Technology. Buckingham: Open University Press. Callon, M., 1986, ‘The sociology of an actor-network: The case of the electric vehicle’, in: Callon, Law and Rip (eds.), Mapping the dynamics of Science and Technology, pp. 77-102. Bijker, W.E., 1995, Of Bicycles, Bakelites and Bulbs: Towards a theory of sociotechnical change, Cambridge: MIT Press.
Philosophy of science	Gillies, Donald, 1993, Philosophy of Science in the Twentieth Century: Four Central Themes. Oxford: Blackwell Hacking, Ian, 1983, Representing and intervening: Introductory topics in the philosophy of natural science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Philosophy of technology	Val Dusek (2006) , Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction Blackwell Pub. Frederick Ferré (1995), Philosophy Of TechnologyUniversity of Georgia Press. Mitcham, Carl. (1994) Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy. University of Chicago Press. Chicago
History of science	Shapin, Steven, and Simon Schaffer, 1985, Leviathan and the Air-Pump. Princeton: University Press. Porter, T., 1995, Trust in numbers: The pursuit of objectivity in science and public life, Princeton University Press
History of technology	Merrit Roe Smith & Leo Marx (eds.),(1994) Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism. Cambridge MA.: MIT Press Edgerton, D., 1999, ‘From innovation to use: ten eclectic theses on the historiography of technology’ History and Technology 16, pp.111-136. Ruth Oldenziel (1999) Making technology masculine. Men, women & modern machines in America 1870-1945, Amsterdam University Press
Critical approaches	Haraway, D.J., 1991, Simians, cyborgs, and women : the reinvention of nature, London : Free Association Books Latour, Bruno, 1993, We have never been modern, transl. by Catherine Porter. New York [etc.] : Harvester Wheatsheaf, cop. 1993. - Vert. van: Nous n'avons jamais été modernes. - Paris : La Decouverte, 1991. Misa, Brey & Feenberg (eds), Modernity & Technology, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003
Innovation studies	Garud, Raghu, and Peter Karnøe (eds.), (2001) Path Dependence and Creation. Mahwah , N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Utterback, J. M. (1996). Mastering the dynamics of innovation. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press. Coombs, R., Green, K., Richards, A., & Walsh, V. (2001). Technology and the Market. Demand, Users and Innovation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

Ethnography of science and technology	Collins, Harry M., 1985, Changing order: Replication and induction in scientific practice. London: Sage Knorr Cetina, Karin (1999), Epistemic Cultures. How the Sciences Make Knowledge. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Hine, C. (2000). Virtual Etnography. London: Sage.
Risk and uncertainty	Ulrich Beck, 1992, Risk Society: Towards a new Modernity, Sage, London. Maarten Hajer, 1995, The Politics of Environmental Discourse: Ecological modernization and the policy process. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Jasanoff, S. 1990, The Fifth Branch: Science advisers as policymakers. Cambridge: Harvard UP.
Knowledge society	Gibbons et al., 1994, The new production of knowledge: the dynamics of science and research in contemporary societies. London, etc.: Sage. Beck, Giddens, Lash, 1994, Reflexive Modernisation: Politics, tradition, and esthetics in the modern social order. Cambridge: Polity Press. Castells, 1996 [second edition 2000], The Rise of the Network Society (The information Age, vol. 1), Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers.
Ethics of science and technology	Keulartz, J., M.Schermer, M.Korthals, T.Swierstra (Eds.) (2002). Pragmatist Ethics for a Technological Culture. Deventer: Kluwer Academic Publishers Mitcham, Carl, R Shannon Duval. (1999) Engineering Ethics. Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
Cultural studies	During, S., (ed.), 1993, The Cultural Studies Reader, London and New York: Routhledge. DuGay, P., S. Hall, L. Janes, H. MacKay and K. Negus, 1996, Doing Cultural Studies – The Story of the Sony Walkman. London, Sage Publications.
Governance of science and technology	Sclove, R. (1995). Democracy and Technology. New York: Guilford Press. David Held, 1995, Democracy and the Global Order, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Public understanding of science and technology	Nelkin D. (1995), Selling Science. how the press covers science and technology Freeman Press, 1995 Wynne, Brian (1996), "May the Sheep Safely Graze? A Reflexive View of the Expert-Lay Knowledge Devide."in Risk, Environment & Modernity: Towards a New Ecology/, edited by Scott Lash, Bronislaw Szerszynski, and Brian Wynne. London, etc.: Sage Publications, 44-83. Alan Irwin & Mike Michael (2003) Science, social theory & public knowledge, Milton Keynes: Open University Press
Technology assessment and participatory approaches	Rip, A., T. Misa & J. Schot, 1995, Managing Technology in Society, London: Pinter.
User studies	Oudshoorn, N., & Pinch, T. (2003). How Users Matter: The Co-construction of Users and Technology. Cambridge: MIT Press. M Lie & K Sorensen (1996) Making technology our own, domesticating technology into everyday life, Oslo: Scandinavian University Press
Scenarios and expectations	Brown, N., Rappert, B., & Webster, A. (2000). Contested Futures - a sociology of prospective techno-science: Aldershot.
Sociology of health and the body	Mol, A. (2002). The Body Multiple: Ontology In Medical Practice. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Blume, Stuart, Insight and Industry. On the Dynamics of Technological Change in Medicine. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. Haraway, D. (1991). Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge.
Nature, space and environment	P Macnaughten, J Urry Contested Natures - Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, 1998 Sarah Whatmore (2002), Hybrid Geographies: Natures Cultures Spaces, London: Sage. Peter Peters (2006), Time Innovation and Mobilities, London: Routledge