Wiebe Bijker
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Wiebe E. Bijker (born 19 March 1951, Delft) is a Dutch professor, chair of the Department of Social Science & Technology at the Faculty of Arts & Culture in the Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands.
After finishing Gymnasium in Emmeloord (1969), Bijker received his Bachelor's from the Universiteit van Amsterdam (1974), his Master's degree in Physical Engineering from the Delft University of Technology (1976), and his PhD from the Universiteit Twente in 1990. He was an assistant and associate professor of philosophy from 1987 at the Maastricht University before becoming the Professor of Technology & Society in 1994.
Bijker's fields of research include social and historical studies of science, technology and society; theories of technology development; methodology of science, technology and society studies; democratisation of technological culture; science and technology policies; ICT, multimedia and the social-cultural dimensions of the information society; gender and technology; and meta studies of architecture, planning, and civil engineering.
[edit] Publications
- 1987 The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology MIT press, with Thomas P. Hughes and Trevor Pinch
- 1995 Of bicycles, bakelites and bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change MIT press
