Tények és termékek társadalmi konstrukciója - avagy hogyan segítheti egymást a tudomány szociológiája és a technika szociológiája
The social construction of facts and artefacts: Or how the sociology of science and the sociology of technology might benefit each other

Summary/Abstract: This paper is the establishing article of Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) theory. Constructivism in this case means that scientific and technological phenomena are also socially constructed and determined. The article of Pinch and Bijker takes this theoretical path to show the ways social groups are able to influence the development of a given technological object. In their view, there is no most efficient method or best plan that can be clearly defined with respect to a given technological object. Efficiency always depend on the ways a given social group intends to use the object, that is, what it is perceived. In their article they demonstrate through the early development of the bicycle, how the differences in the interpretation of the distinct social groups defined different problems with respect to the use of a technological object, and therefore delineated further, novel ways of development.

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