Rethinking Science, Technology, and Social Change

摘要

Ralph Schroeder challenges what he labels the new "orthodoxy" of social constructivism which asserts that "science and technology never determine social change in and of themselves or independently" (p. 1). Schroeder's mission is a worthy one; every notion that threatens to become conventional wisdom ought to be called out (even if I am myself called out as an "extreme" constructivist [p. 101]). Schroeder sees his book as a "defense of scientific and technological determinism" (p. 5).