Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: The Visionary Challenges of STS 1
4. General Perspectives
5. Where Technological Determinism Went 11
6. Understanding Technological Culture through a Constructivist View of Science, Technology, and Society 19
7. Three Perspectives in STS in the Policy Context 35
8. Making Disciplines Disappear in STS 51
9. Applications
10. An STS Perspective on Technology and Work 67
11. Science-Technology-Society and Education: A Focus on Learning and How Persons Know 81
12. STS from a Policy Perspective 99
13. Critiques
14. STS on Other Planets 111
15. Gender: The Missing Factor in STS 123
16. Postmodern Production and STS Studies: A Revolution Ignored 139
17. Bibliography 155
18. Index 163
19. SUNY series in Science, Technology, and Society 169