The Sociology of an Actor-Network: The Case of the Electric Vehicle

作者: Michel Callon

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07408-2_2

关键词: Automotive engineeringNothingGeneralityTechnical objectEpistemologyRigourFuel cellsSociology

摘要: If laboratories and research sites are to the twentieth century what monasteries were to the twelfth, then the sources of their power and efficacy remain a mystery. How is it that the ideas and writings that issue from these institutions are able to revolutionise, if only gradually, conditions of work in industry, the universe of consumer goods and lifestyles? How are the discoveries made in Stanford, Gif-sur-Yvette, and Cambridge diffused such that they become universally known and recognised? How are certain technical devices, shaped in research …

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