The major literature that the author draws from are
1) The social construction of technology (SCOT): As a critical and response paper, most of the concepts he dissects or unpacks are coming from the writing of Pinch and Bijker. The concepts such as relativism, knowledge system, science and technology, relevant group etc are borrowed from the above school of thought
2) Labour process theory: Harry Braverman's ideas of deskilling, Marxian idea of alienation, technological supremacy are used for both methodological and analytical purpose in this response paper. The author believes that the application of this theory in a different sphere of social life such as politics, policy making, economy etc in relation to technology will give a new insight which will cover the shortcomings of the social constructivist approach.
3) Theories of knowledge: A vague mentioning of this literature are used to show that what are the issues emerge when somebody blurs the demarcation between science and technology. It also navigates the author to problematize the use of certain theories of sociology of science in the "so-called" new sociology of technology without any caution.
