<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello all,<div><br></div><div>Sociology for Simmel, is the study of social forms (<a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/2762513)">http://www.jstor.org/stable/2762513)</a>. he says we can empty our interactions of the actual content (economy, desires, politics) and study the ways through which people form groups, create connections, introduce conflicts, etc.<div><br></div><div>Simple, but brilliant. Sociology as the study of social interaction, bracketing the content of this interaction. And with changing forms of interaction, it is also very useful, because, as Nathan said, people don't change. The content of our interactions is pretty much the same, isn't it? Love, hate, greed, compassion. But the forms, the scope, vary a lot.</div><div><br></div><div>So I would define sociology of technology as the study of those social interactions which are shaped by technology. Pretty much like urban sociology is the study of interactions which are shaped by the urban landscape, that are made possible (or prevented) by our urban environment.</div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Abraço,</div><div>Heloisa</div><div>Cell: 617.794.0526</div><div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000">Work: 412.365.1820</font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000">skype: helopait</font></div></div></div></span> </div><br><div><div>Em Feb 2, 2009, às 2:48 PM, jeremy hunsinger escreveu:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>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.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>CITASA mailing list<br><a href="mailto:CITASA@list.citasa.org">CITASA@list.citasa.org</a><br>http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>