STS Scholars

This is a encyclopedic list of scholars whose work made a contribution to the field of science, technology, and society studies (STS) broadly defined. Each entry includes key works and references, as well as suggestions for further reading. This list is a work-in-progress that needs your support. If you would like to submit an entry please get in touch and express your interest.  All lexicon entries will be peer-reviewed using a standard double-blind process.

ABBATE,JANET

Gender in Academic Computing: Alternative Career Paths and Norms (2014) Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing (2012) Inventing the Internet (1999) http://womenincomputing.net/RecodingGender/

ADORNO, THEODOR

Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944/1947) – with Max Horkheimer Against Epistemology: A Metacritique; Studies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomies (1956) The Jargon of Authenticity (1964) Negative Dialectics (1966) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_W._Adorno

ASHMORE, MALCOLM

Knowledge and Reflexivity: New Frontiers in the Sociology of Knowledge (1988) The Reflexive Thesis: Wrighting Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (1989) Health and Efficiency: A Sociology of Health Economics (1989) *ing Darwin: The Problem of Locality in Diffusionist History of Science” (2009) –with Olga Restrepo-Forero http://lboro.academia.edu/MalcolmAshmore

BARNES, BARRY (1943 – )

Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory (1974) Interests and Growth of Knowledge (1977) About Science (1985) The Nature of Power (1988) Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis(1996) –with David Bloor & John Henry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Barry_Barnes

BAZERMAN, CHARLES (1945 – )

Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science (1988) orting the Experiment: The Changing Account of Scientific Doings in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1665 – 1800” (1997) Constructing Experience (1994) The Languages of Edison’s Light* (2002) http://mina.education.ucsb.edu/bazerman/

BIJKER, WIEBE (1951-)

The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (1987) – with Thomas P. Hughes and Trevor Pinch Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change (1995) The Paradox of Scientific Authority: The Role of Scientific Advice in Democracies (2009) – with Roland Bal and Rudd Hendriks

BENJAMIN, WALTER (1892 – 1940)
BLOOR, DAVID (1942 – )
  • Paradigms for Scientific Knowledge?” (1971) Knowledge and Social Imagery (1976)
  • Strengths of the Strong Programme” (1981) Wittgenstein: Rules and Institutions (1997) iology of Scientific Knowledge” (2004) ativism and the Sociology of Knowledge” (2011) http://www.stis.ed.ac.uk/people/academic_staff/bloor_david
BOWKER, GEOFFREY
  • Industrialisation of Science” (1989) ormation Mythology: The World of/as Information” (1994) Science on the Run* (1994)
  • History of Information Infrastructures” (1997) Memory Practices in Science, 1830 – 1990 (2006) http://www.ics.uci.edu/~gbowker/
BRAY, FRANCESCA

Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China (1997) der and Technology” (2007) Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered (2013) Rice: Global Networks and New Histories* (2015) http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/people/faculty/francesca_bray

CALLON, MICHEL (1945 – )

Mapping the dynamics of science and technology: sociology of science in the real world (1986) – with John Law and Arie Rip Acting in an uncertain world: an essay on technical democracy (2009) iety in the making: the study of technology as a tool for sociological analysis” (1987) hno-economic networks and irreversibility” (1991) http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/en/people/honorary-members/michel-callon/

CARLSON, W. BERNARD

Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric, 1870 -1900 (1991)

  • Telephone as a Political Instrument: Gardiner Hubbard and the Political Construction of the Telephone, 1875 – 1880 (2001) ersity and Progress: How Might We Picture Technology Across Global Cultures?” (2007) Understanding Innovations that Changed the World (2013) Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age* (2013) http://www.eands.virginia.edu/faculty-staff/carlson/
CASTELLS, MANUEL (1942 – )

City, Class and Power (1978) The Informational City: Information Technology, Economic Restructuring, and the Urban Regional Process (1989) Technopoles of the World: The Making of 21st Century Industrial Complexes (1994) Communication Power (2009) Networks of Outrage and Hope. Social Movements in the Internet Age (2012) http://www.manuelcastells.info/en

COCKBURN, CYNTHIA

The Local State: Management of Cities and People (1977) Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men and Technical Know-how (1985) Gender and Technology in the Making (1993) Bringing Technology Home: Gender and Technology in a Changing Europe (1994) http://www.cynthiacockburn.org/notowar/publications.html

COLLINS, HARRY (1943 – )

Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice (1985) Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines (1990) The Shape of Actions What Humans and Machines Can Do (1998) – with Martin Kusch Tacit and Explicit Knowledge (2010) Are We All Scientific Experts Now (2014) http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/38108-collins-harry

COWAN, RUTH SCHWARTZ (1941 – )

More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave (1983)

DAVIS-FLOYD, ROBBIE

technocratic model of birth (1993) technocratic body: American Childbirth as Cultural Expression (1994) Cyborg Babies: From Techno-sex to Techno-tots (1998) *oductive technologies (2001) http://www.davis-floyd.com/

rds, Paul N. The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (1996) resenting the Global Atmosphere: Computer Models, Data, and Knowledge about Climate Change” (2001) tory and the Technopolitics of Identity: The Case of Apartheid South Africa” (2010) – with Gabrielle Hecht A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming* (2010) http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/

ELLUL, JACQUES (1912 – 1994)

The Technological Society (1964) Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (1962) The Political Illusion (1967) The Technological System (1980) The Technological Bluff (1990) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul

ELZINGA, AANT (1937 – )

ces of Eurocentrism in Current Representations of Science” (1995) oretical Perspectives: Culture as a Resource for Technological Change” (1998) ing STS Relevant for Technology Policy” (2002) sions and Change in the Framing of Science Policy: The Value of Academic Values in an Era of Globalization” (2012) *e Aspects on the History of Ice Core Drilling and Science from IGY to EPICA” (2013) http://flov.gu.se/english/contact/staff/aant-elzinga

EPSTEIN, STEVEN

INCLUSION: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research (2007) THREE SHOTS AT PREVENTION: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine’s Simple Solutions (2010) *orld of Standards but not a Standard World: Toward a Sociology of Standards and Standardization (2010)

FEENBERG, ANDREW

Critical Theory of Technology (1991) Technology and the Politics of Knowledge (1995) Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory (1995) Community in the Digital Age (2004) – with Darin Barney (Re)Inventing the Internet: Critical Case Studies (2011) – with Norm Friesen The Philosophy of Praxis: Marx, Lukacs and the Frankfurt School (2014) https://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/

FORSYTHE, DIANA ( – 1997)
  • Construction of Work in Artificial Intelligence” (1993) *ineering Knowledge: The Construction of Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence” (1993)
  • Bottles, Old Wine: Hidden Cultural Assumptions in a Computerized Explanation System for Migraine Sufferers” (1996) http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=1342
FOUCAULT, MICHEL (1926 – 1984)

The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception (1963) The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1966) The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul

GALISON, PETER (1955 – )

Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics (1997) ectivity is Romantic” (2000) Einstein’s Clock’s, Poincaré’s Maps (2003) ngs and Thoughts” (2006) entific Cultures” (2011) ual STS” (2014) ‘

GIERYN, THOMAS (1950 – )

*blem Retention and Problem Change in Science” (1978)

  • Aging of a Science and Its Exploitation of Innovation: Lessons From X-Ray and Radio Astronomy” (1981) ndary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science: Strains and Interests in Professional Ideologies of Scientists” (1983) Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility On the Line (1999) y as Truth-Spot: Laboratories and Field-sites in Urban Studies” (2006) http://www.indiana.edu/~soc/bios/Thomas_Gieryn.html
HARAWAY, DONNA (1944 – )

yborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century” (1985) Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991) uated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspectives” (1988) The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (2003) http://histcon.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=haraway

HORKHEIMER, MAX (1895 – 1973)

Traditional and Critical Theory (1937) Critique of Instrumental Reason (1967) Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947) – with Theodor Adorno Egoism and the Freedom Movement (1936) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Horkheimer – Selected_works

JASANOFF, SHEILA (1944 – )

Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (1995) States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and Social Order (2004) Reframing Rights: Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age (2011) Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power (2015) http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/people/director.html

LATOUR, BRUNO (1947 – )

We Have Never Been Modern (1991) Laboratory Life (1979) – with Steve Woolgar Science in Action (1987) The Pasteurization of France (1988) Pandora’s Hope (1999) http://www.bruno-latour.fr/

MACKENZIE, DONALD (1950 – )

The Social Shaping of Technology: How the Refrigerator Got its Hum (1985) – with Judy Wajcman Inventing accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (1990) Knowing Machines: Essays on technical change (1996) Material Markets: How Economic Agents are Constructed (2008) http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/sociology/mackenzie_donald

MALINOWSKI, BRONISLAW

Coral Gardens And Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands: Two Volumes (1935) A Scientific Theory of Culture(1944) Freedom and Civilization (1944) Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays (1948) http://www.nndb.com/people/320/000099023/

MARCUSE, HERBERT (1898 – 1979)

A Study on Authority (1936) Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis (1958) One-Dimensional Man (1964) Counterrevolution and Revolt (1972) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse#Bibliography

MUMFORD, LEWIS (1985 – 1990)

The Story of Utopias (1922) Technics and Civilization (1934) The Condition of Man (1944) The City in History (1961) The Myth of the Machine (two volumes) Technics and Human Development (1967) The Pentagon of Power (1970) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford#Works

REYNOLDS, PETER C.

uage and Skilled Activity (1976) Use of Computers in the Formal Description of Behavior (1978) On the Evolution of Human Behavior: The Argument from Animals to Man(1981) primate constructional system: the theory and description of instrumental object use in humans and chimpanzees (1982) Stealing Fire: The Atomic Bomb as Symbolic Body (1991) nology – Not Tool Use: Cognitive Representation of Cooperative Construction (1993) *Priests of Cyborg (1993) http://www.sallyglean.org/reynolds/

WAJCMAN, JUDY

The Social Shaping of Technology: How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum (1985) – with Donald MacKenzie The Social Shaping of Technology (1999) – with Donald MacKenzie Technofeminism (2004) The Politics of Working Life (2005) The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (2008) – with Ed Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska and Mike Lynch http://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/whoswho/academic/wajcman.aspx

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