SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HTS 6115 Wenda Bauchspies, Phd G23 Old Civil Engineering Office Hours:

1:00-2:00 TR and other hours by appointment. wkbauchspies@gatech.edu 404 385 3382 Course Description: The course will address the history of sociology of science and technology as well as contemporary understandings current in the field. Introduction: The objective of this course is to introduce students to the history of sociology of science and technology as well as contemporary works in the field through classroom discussions, readings and assignments. Books Science Barber, Bernard, and Walter Hirsch. 1962. The Sociology of science. New York: Free Press of Glencoe. (chps 29-32) Barnes, Barry, and David O. Edge. 1982. Science in context: readings in the sociology of science. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. (part 3 and chps 4-7 &15) Biagioli, Mario. 1999. The science studies reader. New York: Routledge. Bowker, Geoffrey C. 2005. Memory practices in the sciences. Inside technology. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Epstein, Steven. 2007. Inclusion: the politics of difference in medical research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (1-73 and 277-302) Fleck, Ludwik. 1979. Genesis and development of a scientific fact. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (82-145) Frickel, Scott, and Kelly Moore. 2006. The new political sociology of science institutions, networks, and power. Science and technology in society. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. http://www.netlibrary.com Harding, Sandra. 2006. Science and social inequality: feminist and postcolonial issues. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. (1-49) Herzig, Rebecca M. 2005. Suffering for science: reason and sacrifice in modern America. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. Merton, R. Sociology of Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973 (chps: 11, 13, 14-18, 20). Reid, Roddey, and Sharon Traweek. 2000. Doing science + culture. New York: Routledge. (1-20) Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. 2006. Scandalous knowledge: science, truth and the human. Science and cultural theory. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. (1-84) Star, Susan Leigh. 1995. Ecologies of knowledge work and politics in science and technology. SUNY series in science, technology, and society. Albany: State University of New York Press. http://www.netlibrary.com (39-87)

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Technology (Cluster)Woolgar, Steve. 1991. The turn to technology in social studies of science. Science, Technology, and Human Values 16 (1):20-50; Winner, Langdon. 1993. Upon opening the black box and finding it empty: Social constructivism and philosophy of technology. Science, Technology, & Human Values 18:362-378; Pinch, Trevor. 1996. The social construction of technology: A review. In Technological change: Methods and themes in history of technology, edited by R. Fox. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers. Bijker, Wiebe E. 1995. Of bicycles, bakelites, and bulbs: toward a theory of sociotechnical change. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. (390 pages) Bijker, Wiebe E., Thomas Parke Hughes, and T. J. Pinch. 1987. The Social construction of technological systems: new directions in the sociology and history of technology. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. (419 pages) MacKenzie, Donald A. 1998. Knowing machines essays on technical change. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. http://www.netlibrary.com/. MacKenzie, Donald A., and Judy Wajcman. 1999. The social shaping of technology. Buckingham [England]: Open University Press. Oudshoorn, Nelly, and T. J. Pinch. 2003. How users matter: the co-construction of users and technologies. Inside technology. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Oudshoorn, Nelly. 2003. The male pill: a biography of a technology in the making. Durham: Duke University Press. Rapp, Rayna. 1999. Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America. Star, Susan L., and Geoffrey C. Bowker. 1999. Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. http://www.netlibrary.com Suchman, Lucille Alice. 2007. Human-machine reconfigurations: plans and situated actions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Week 11 Jan 18 25 1 Feb 8 15 22 1 Mar 8 15 22

Reading Science Fiction? video Merton, Barber Barnes (4-7, 15), Fleck, Smith Epstein, Harding, Reid & Traweek, Biagioli 1-18 Biagioli 19-36 Frickel & Moore Bowker, and Herzig Barnes (Part 3), and Bijker 1987 Bijker 1995, Cluster of readings, Spring Break

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29 5 April 12 19 26 Course Requirements:

MacKenzie MacKenzie/Wajcman Oudshoorn and Pinch Star and Bowker Oudshoorn or Rapp or Suchman

Attendance and Participation: 50 (pts). Ten Weekly one - two page single spaced paper (10pts) on the reading that helps you to focus your thoughts and to articulate what you find as interesting or important in the reading for your work (you pick which weeks). 15 Feb and 5 April: Book Reviews (40 pts each) due of a minimum of two books of authors from The science studies reader; and The social shaping of technology and/or The Social construction of technological systems. Please check out the journals of the field for a sample and length of a book review and notice that there are different types of book reviews: short, long and multiple. (In STS: Science, Technology, and Human Values, Social Studies of Science, Technology and Culture, to name a few examples.) If you have questions about what author/book to read, please consult with me and once you have selected your book, let me know what book you are planning to read and what type of review you will do. Final Paper: Research paper on topic of your choice related to sociology of science, and/or technology. Approximately 30 pages. (100pts) This paper can feed into your dissertation or master thesis project and provide some foundation for it or be on another area of your choice. Please keep me posted as to the direction and focus of your paper through out the semester. Grading Scale: Your Points/Total Points = 90% and above) = A Your Points/Total Points = 80% to 89% = B Your Points/Total Points = 70% to 79% = C Your Points/Total Points = 60% to 69% = D Your Points/Total Points = less than 59% = Failing

General Notice:
All writing assignments are to be typed with a 10 or 12 point font. If this is a hardship for you, please see me. Please use gender neutral pronouns (i.e. he/she, they) and proper citations. All written work is to be your own original work and may not have been submitted in another class for a grade. Plagiarism violates GaTechs code of conduct and students who plagiarize will be reported to the Dean of Students. If you have any questions whatsoever, read the Honor Code and discuss it with me. It is available at: www.deanofstudents.gatech.edu/Policy/code.in.sections.htm#AHC.

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Always use proper citation practices. If you have questions about writing and citation practices, please see me and/or the librarys website: http://www.library.gatech.edu/search/citation_guide.php. If it should happen that you need to deviate from the established syllabus in any way for any reason please be respectful of yourself, your classmates and the instructor by attending to the situation in a respectful, honest and professional manner. Georgia Tech complies with the regulations of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and offers accommodations to students with disabilities. If you are in need of a classroom accommodation, please make an appointment with the ADAPTS office to discuss the appropriate procedures as soon as possible in order for us to make appropriate modifications to ensure your success in HTS 6115. The website for ADAPTS is: http://adapts.gatech.edu. Please note that accommodations can only be made for the future. The instructor reserves the right to alter the syllabus as needed. All changes will be announced in class and on T-Square. It is the students responsibility to stay informed.

Handbooks & Encyclopedias 1. Spiegel-Rosing, Ina and Derek de Solla Price (eds.), Science, Technology and Society: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective (Sage, 1977). 2. Jasanoff, Sheila, Gerald E. Markle, James C. Petersen, and Trevor Pinch (eds), Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Revised edition (Sage, 1995). 3. Hackett, Ed., et al. (eds) The New Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. (MIT Press 3rd edition 2007). 4. Restivo, Sal, editor in chief, Oxford Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society (Oxford University Press, 2005). Web resources: http://www.sts.rpi.edu/pl/science-studies-reading-list http://www.sts.rpi.edu/pl/technology-reading-list http://www.racesci.org/home.html http://www.4sonline.org/

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