Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) Theory Quiz

SCOT is a theory within the field of science and technology studies that argues that technology does not determine human action, but rather, human action shapes technology.

Advocates of SCOT argue that the ways a technology is used cannot be understood without understanding how that technology is embedded in its social context.

SCOT is a response to technological determinism and is sometimes known as technological constructivism.

<p>SCOT draws on work done in the constructivist school of the sociology of scientific knowledge, and its subtopics include actor-network theory and historical analysis of sociotechnical systems.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Its empirical methods are an adaptation of the Empirical Programme of Relativism (EPOR), which outlines a method of analysis to demonstrate the ways in which scientific findings are socially constructed.</p> Signup and view all the answers