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  1. The Social Practice of Independent Inventing.Peter Whalley - 1991 - Science, Technology and Human Values 16 (2):208-232.
    The history of modern innovation is primarily that of the industrial research laboratory, but the demise of the independent inventor —like that of the entrepreneur —has been much exaggerated. Independent inventing, in fact, continues to flourish as a cultural and technical practice in the contemporary United States. There are, however, a number of structural and cultural impediments in the way of independent inventors who seek to translate their invention into a commercial innovation. By drawing a comparison with the art world, (...)
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  • Straining to explain strain and synthesis.Jeffry L. Ramsey - 2004 - Foundations of Chemistry 6 (1):81-91.
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  • Technology and institutions: living in a material world. [REVIEW]Trevor Pinch - 2008 - Theory and Society 37 (5):461-483.
    This article addresses the relationship between technology and institutions and asks whether technology itself is an institution. The argument is that social theorists need to attend better to materiality: the world of things and objects of which technical things form an important class. It criticizes the new institutionalism in sociology for its failure to sufficiently open up the black box of technology. Recent work in science and technology studies (S&TS) and in particular the sociology of technology is reviewed as another (...)
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  • Side by Side: Learning by Observing and Pitching In.Ruth Paradise & Barbara Rogoff - 2009 - Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 37 (1):102-138.
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  • Images of Work.Julian E. Orr - 1998 - Science, Technology and Human Values 23 (4):439-455.
    The ways in which work gets done are observably different from the ways in which those in positions of responsibility talk about that work or from the ways in which the organizational and business literature portrays work. The ethnographic study of work focuses on work practice, on what is actually done, and on how those doing the work make sense of their practice, but this is rarely part of either corporate or organizational discourse about work This article tries to show (...)
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  • Gadgets, Gizmos, and Instruments: Science for the Tinkering.Frank Nutch - 1996 - Science, Technology and Human Values 21 (2):214-228.
    Universal, scientific knowledge emerges from research practices. Scientists tinker with and align local conditions to produce scientific knowledge. Research equipment and scientific instruments are essential tools for knowledge production. Scientists differ, however, in their ability to handle these material resources of research. One type of scientist, who also represents a way of handling resources, is referred to by field scientists as a "gadget-man." Drawing upon a participant observation study of a marine labora tory in the Caribbean and a study in (...)
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  • Patriarchal Machines and Masculine Embodiment.Ulf Mellström - 2002 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 27 (4):460-478.
    Hegemonic masculinity is a concept that has been of central concern in gender research on different masculinities. However, with the exception of the pioneering work of Wajcman, it has not been widely discussed in relation to studies of science and technology. In this article, which mainly draws on anthropological fieldwork among car and motor mechanics in Penang, Malaysia, a certain form of hegemonic masculinity, based on an intimate embodied interaction with machines, is being discussed. Such a masculinity is furthermore founded (...)
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  • Engineering Heterogeneous Accounts: The Case of Submarine Thermal Reactor Mark-I.Scott Frickel - 1996 - Science, Technology and Human Values 21 (1):28-53.
    Within science and technology studies, few approaches have generated more contention—or more misunderstanding—than the "actor-network" analyses of Callon, Latour, and Law. Although many have taken critical issue with this approach, few studies have engaged the strengths and weaknesses of actor-network theory on its own terms. This article presents two arguments that constitute a critical engagement across actor-network terrain. First, the author suggests that the confusion surrounding actor-network accounts lies partially in the ambiguous role played by "social context" and argues for (...)
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  • Praxis Makes Perfect: Recovering the Ethical Promise of Critical Management Studies. [REVIEW]William M. Foster & Elden Wiebe - 2010 - Journal of Business Ethics 94 (S2):271 - 283.
    Critical Management Studies (CMS) has become an accepted part of mainstream management research. Yet, as CMS research advances, it is our position that CMS's ethical potential is not being realized. Drawing on one of CMS's theoretical sources, Critical Theory (CT), we suggest that CMS has well embraced the CT element of critique, but it has not adequately achieved the element of praxis, thereby truncating CMS's emancipation project. This paper seeks to address this trend and recover the ethical promise of CMS (...)
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