Upon opening the black box and finding it empty : social contructivism and the philosophy of technology

 The main argument of the article rests in the critique of social constructivism and its conceptual basic premises. Like most prominent scholars in STS, Winner also agrees with the larger idea of 'social construction of Technology, but he disagrees with the negation of early scholarly tradition by SCOT Academicians, who firmly believe that the others who studied technology earlier were only able to study the consequence of society. Langdon winner argues that the mere description and direct commentary upon what constitutes a technology and how it works will not complete picture without writing about the direct consequences happening across the contemporary world from Whale to Reactor.

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