Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs

Bijker, W. E. (1997). Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change. MIT Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1997

Link

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262522274/of-bicycles-bakelites-and-bulbs/

Cited from

organizational_management, sociology_anthropology

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3 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Culture Lag

  • This sourceScience and technology studies treatment of technology-society co-evolution; documents lag periods in multiple technologies. sociotechnical change and lag.

  • History of technology documents electrification (workplace safety norms lagged), automobiles (traffic law lagged decades), aviation (international coordination lagged commercial expansion), digital media (copyright, defamation, privacy all in extended lag), biotechnology (germline-editing ethics in active lag)

    This sourceSTS treatment of technology–society co-evolution; supports the Broad-Use claim that legal/professional/institutional structures co-evolve with technical systems with lag as a recurring pattern (D29-085). NOTE: prime dates it 1997; the original edition is 1995.

• Sociotechnical Systems
  • - **T6: Efficiency optimization versus resilience.

    This sourceScience and technology studies treatment of technology-society co-evolution; documents lag periods in multiple technologies. sociotechnical change and lag.

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