[CITASA] Will the real sociology of technologies stand up?

[Ellis Godard]

There's arguably no consistent essence to sociology. Donald Black argues
that the discipline has no standard purpose, goals, criteria, etc. And, from
a very different perspective but with comparable effect, Stephan Fuchs
argues "against essentialism" in a book by that title.

-eg


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> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 11:48 AM
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> 
> on the contrary side... I've always wondered what 'sociology' is... i must
have 50
> articles debating that spread across 75 or so years, trying to
differentiate it from
> 'scientific history', 'political economics', and 'policy sciences' and
later 'cultural
> studies' and more...  The technology side to me is easier to objectify i
suppose in
> materiality, but in the end, it is the practice/techne/phronesis side of
technology
> that i think most people get curious about in sociology.
> 
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