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The 20 pages that link to Social construction of technology, each with the reason it gives.

• Social constructionismBroader topic: It extends constructionist analysis to artifacts whose meanings and designs are contested.

• Technological determinismCompared with: It reverses determinism’s usual direction of explanation by treating society as shaping technology.

• Science and Technology StudiesRelated: It shows how social groups shape which technologies are developed and how they work.

• TechnologyCompared with: It emphasizes that technologies are shaped by society, not simply imposed upon it.

• History of technologyRelated: It shows how societies influence which technological designs become established.

• Marshall McLuhanCompared with: It contrasts with readings that make media technologies the primary drivers of social change.

• Donna HarawayRelated: This approach parallels Haraway’s attention to the social relations embedded in technologies.

• Sociology of knowledgeRelated: It extends sociological analysis from knowledge claims to the technologies that embody them.

• Bruno LatourCompared with: Its emphasis on social groups provides a useful comparison with Latour’s broader network of human and nonhuman actors.

• Information societyCompared with: It challenges accounts that present information technologies as having inevitable social effects.

• Technological utopianismCompared with: It challenges the idea that inventions produce benefits independently of social choices.

• Science studiesRelated: It extends science-studies analysis from knowledge-making to technological development.

• Technology and societyRelated: It shows how groups and institutions influence which technological designs succeed.

• History of communicationCompared with: It counters accounts that treat communication technologies as independent causes of change.

• Marilyn StrathernRelated: Her work helped bring anthropological attention to the social effects of scientific and technical practices.

• Digital anthropologyRelated: It frames digital tools as products of social choices, not merely technical forces.

• Elizabeth EisensteinCompared with: This approach redirects attention from print’s intrinsic effects to its users and institutions.

• History of engineeringCompared with: It contrasts with histories that attribute engineering outcomes mainly to technical efficiency.

• History of military technologyCompared with: It highlights how military institutions and political priorities shape which technologies are adopted.

• History of Science and TechnologyRelated: It highlights that technologies reflect historical negotiations rather than inevitable progress.