Technology and Culture

Running head: TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE
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Chosen article:
Winner, L. (1993). Upon opening the black box and finding it empty: Social constructivism
and the philosophy of technology. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 18(3), 362-378.
Introduction:
Social construction of technology refers the theory within the science and technology
studies that advocates the social constructivism philosophies. The social constructivism
argues that instead of human action influences by the technology, the human action shapes
the technological advancement. The philosophy of technology which is available in Science,
Equipment of technology, and Human Ethics, Langdon Winner's article is adjusted from an
executive exchange of ideas agreed at the argument in lieu of the Society designed for morals
and Values along with the Technology. Along with this article, this paper has taken other 6
articles into consideration. Three of those additional six articles are the literatures that
influenced the content of the chosen article and other three articles are the literatures that
have been influenced by the reading of this article. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate
the key concepts emerged from this chosen articles and the other six articles in a cohesive
format.
Articles that influenced the chosen study
The philosophy of technology, which is available in Science, Equipment of
technology, and Human Ethics, Langdon Winner's article is adjusted from an executive
exchange of ideas agreed at the argument in lieu of the Society designed for morals and
Values along with the Technology. The dialogue of the article is a prolonged analysis of
communal constructiveness in technology initiating the viewpoint of philosophy on the whole
and principles or morals in certain. The piece of the article is encouraged by the members of
the individuals of sociologists reviewing science and technology and the progression of STS

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in general. He has quoted the name of Trevor Pinch and Wiebe E. Bijker specifically. Winner
acclaims the sociological learning skills along with the study of Science for conveying
pragmatic consistency by the education of science and the earnings over and done through
which this one is produced. Even still he discusses the constructivists of the communal group
have remunerated fewer responsiveness towards technology, on the other hand he claims that
on condition a beneficial amenity in profession interested in queries which involves the
highly illogical disunions between the societal scope and the technical domain. Nevertheless
Winner also points out the fact that the collective constructivists are basically aggressive for
the importance in contradiction of additional deep-rooted thoughts of equipment similar to
those by the eminent personalities like Trevor Pinch and Wiebe E. Bijker. Winner gives a
special treatment to all the readers that they must be known about what one capitulates in
addition to what an individual achieve by selecting this scholarly track in the direction of the
learning of technology and social activities. In this article Winner claims, that the societal
implications of methodological excellent are practically missing out from its standpoint by
the additional logic which is a disapproving method. On the other hand his emphases on
"related social performers" which trimmings up disregarding the knowledge or principles of
"immaterial" crowds who are actually affected by the technology noticing that evacuating the
black boxes which will finish up covering as abundantly as it exposes. This article also
influenced by another article on the social construction namely ‘DO ARTIFACTS HAVE
POLITICS?’, which examined the provocative in controversies about technology and society
than the notion that technical things while considering political qualities. The study of
Winner (1986), highly influence the chosen literature of Winner. Winner (1986), emphasizes
the principles of the Technical Arrangements and Social Order on the Inherently Political
Technologies, that has made an upsetting method to evaluate technological varieties. The
chosen study of Winner is heavily influenced by the core concept of technological progress as