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About: Social studies is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 17026 publications have been published within this topic receiving 218595 citations.
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15 Feb 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, a text that emphasizes the importance of case studies in social science scholarship and shows how to make case study practices more rigorous is presented, with a focus on case studies.
Abstract: A text that emphasizes the importance of case studies in social science scholarship and shows how to make case study practices more rigorous.
6,260 citations
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01 Jan 1987
TL;DR: Social construction of technology (SCOT) as mentioned in this paper is a popular approach to the study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions, and demonstrates the illuminating effects of the integration of empirics and theory.
Abstract: This pioneering book, first published in 1987, launched the new field of social studies of technology. It introduced a method of inquiry--social construction of technology, or SCOT--that became a key part of the wider discipline of science and technology studies. The book helped the MIT Press shape its STS list and inspired the Inside Technology series. The thirteen essays in the book tell stories about such varied technologies as thirteenth-century galleys, eighteenth-century cooking stoves, and twentieth-century missile systems. Taken together, they affirm the fruitfulness of an approach to the study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions, and they demonstrate the illuminating effects of the integration of empirics and theory. The approaches in this volume--collectively called SCOT (after the volume’s title) have since broadened their scope, and twenty-five years after the publication of this book, it is difficult to think of a technology that has not been studied from a SCOT perspective and impossible to think of a technology that cannot be studied that way.
3,191 citations
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2,303 citations
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01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: The Narrative Turn in Social Studies How Stories are made Collecting Stories Narratives in an Interview Situation Reading Narratives Structural Analyses Close Readings Poststructuralism, Interruption, Deconstruction Reading Social Sciences Writing Social Sciences Narrativizing Social Sciences
Abstract: The Narrative Turn in Social Studies How Stories Are Made Collecting Stories Narratives in an Interview Situation Reading Narratives Structural Analyses Close Readings Poststructuralism, Interruption, Deconstruction Reading Social Sciences Writing Social Sciences Narrativizing Social Sciences
1,871 citations