How is technology made?-That is the question!

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-76

  Bijker, Wiebe E ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Idealism; Ontology; Realism; Relativism; Social construction; Technological culture; Technological frame; Technology

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 77950937956     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/bep068     Document Type: Article

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