ENVS 5110
Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Studies

Academic STS

Books

• The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, by Langdon Winner (1986)
  Chapters 1, 2, and 3: Technologies as Forms of Life, Do Artifacts Have Politics, and Techne and Politeia

• Primate Visions, by Donna Haraway (1989)
  Chapter 1: Introduction: The Persistence of Vision

• Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, by Donna Haraway (1991)
  Chapters 1 and 8: Introduction, and A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century (first published 1983)

• Modest Witness at the Second Millennium, by Donna Haraway (1997)
  Chapters 1 and 7: The Grammar of Feminism and Technoscience and Facts, Witnesses, Consequences

• We Have Never Been Modern, by Bruno Latour (1993)

• From the World of Science to the World of Research?, Bruno Latour (Science, vol. 280, 10 April 1998, pp. 208-209)

• Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change, by Wiebe Bijker (1995)

• Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America, by Sheila Jasanoff (1995)

• The Golem: What You Should Know about Science, 2nd ed., by Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch (1998)

• The State of Humanity, by Julian L. Simon (1995)
  Chapters 1 and 58: Introduction and Conclusion: What Does the Future Hold?
  General Information on Juliam Simon (Many of the links on this web site to Simon publications do not work)

• Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture, by Thomas P. Hughes (2004)

Social Constructivism Debate

• The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts by Wiebe Bijker

• Upon Opening the Black Box and Finding it Empty: Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Technology, by Langdon Winner (1993)

• Do Not Despair: There Is Life after Constructivism, by Wiebe Bijker (1993)

• Philosophy of Technology Meets Social Constructivism, by Philip Brey (1997)