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Wiebe E. Bijker
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Wiebe E. Bijker is Professor of Technology and Society at the University of Maastricht. He is the author of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change (MIT Press, 1997) and other books.

The Paradox of Scientific AuthorityThe Paradox of Scientific Authority
The Role of Scientific Advice in Democracies
Wiebe E. Bijker, Roland Bal and Ruud Hendriks
Cloth / October 2009
Assessing the influence of scientific advice in societies that increasingly question scientific authority and expertise.
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Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and BulbsOf Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs
Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change
Wiebe E. Bijker
Paper / January 1997
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No cover image available for this edition.Shaping Technology / Building Society
Studies in Sociotechnical Change
Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law (Eds.)
Cloth / August 1992
Building on the influential book The Social Construction of Technological Systems, this volume carries forward the project of creating a theory of technological development and implementation that is strongly grounded in both sociology and history.
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No cover image available for this edition.The Social Construction of Technological Systems
New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology
Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes and Trevor Pinch (Eds.)
Cloth / June 1987
The 13 essays in this book draw on a wide array of case studies from cooking stoves to missile systems, from 15th­century Portugal to today's AI labs - to outline an original research program based on a synthesis of ideas from the social studies of science and the history of technology.
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