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This document introduces the concept of technological determinism, which views technology as developing autonomously according to its own internal logic or laws, and then having direct impacts on society. However, the authors argue that technology is shaped by social factors and that its development and effects are influenced by economic, political, and cultural values. They propose that technology should be seen as shaped by society as much as shaping it.
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GREAT SOCIOCULTURAL revolution is now sweeping our world. Centered in North
America, Japan, and the urban, industrialized countries of Western Europe, it extends to
the still largely rural, third World nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America and to the
formerly communist-dominated (“second World”) regions of Central and Eastern Europe.
Rapid change, both peaceful and violent, is a fact of life that virtually everyone on Earth today
has come to expect, if not unconditionally accept.
The Shape of Things to Come
This revolution is now boiling at or near the surface of contemporary social relations
everywhere. With increasing regularity, it erupts into our daily affairs, taking on many different
guises. In the United States, this revolution is evident in the conflict between the defenders and
attackers of government regulation, in the debates about immigration—legal and illegal—about
the country’s participation in the United Nations, in the challenges to welfare programs for the
poor, and in the post–September 11 concern about “homeland security.” Here, and in other
countries throughout the world, it has manifested itself in pro- and antiglobalization protests
and movements for civil rights on behalf of formerly excluded ethnic minority groups, gays and
lesbians, persons with disabilities, children, and senior citizens. It is also evident in our
changing attitudes and behavior in the realm of gender. The realities that our parents and
grandparents took for granted are now in such doubt that today we are even asking ourselves
what it means to be a man or a woman.
Common to all of these debates, conflicts, challenges, and movements is the explicit
recognition that something is wrong with society as we have known it. Those involved,
regardless of their specific views on the various issues, acknowledge that serious
shortcomings and unwanted costs are now associated with the manner in which people have
become accustomed to treating one another.
A historical juncture has been reached at which the old ways of managing human affairs,
from the interpersonal to the international levels, are becoming less and less effective. Yet,
despite the numerous possible options with which we have experimented or merely dreamed,
no clear alternatives have emerged to guide us into a highly uncertain future. Just as modernity
displaced feudalism as the dominant cultural form in Europe some 250 years ago, something is
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- 1. Donald MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman Introductory essay: the social shaping of technology Book section Original citation: Originally published in MacKenzie, Donald and Wajcman, Judy, eds. (1999) The social shaping of technology. 2nd ed., Open University Press, Buckingham, UK. ISBN 9780335199136 © 1999 Donald MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman This version available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/28638/ Available in LSE Research Online: August 2012 LSE has developed LSE Research Online so that users may access research output of the School. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LSE Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute the URL (http://eprints.lse.ac.uk) of the LSE Research Online website. This document is the author’s submitted version of the book section. There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher’s version if you wish to cite from it.
- 2. 1 Introduction Technology is a vitally important aspect of the human condition. Technologies feed, clothe, and provide shelter for us; they transport, entertain, and heal us; they provide the bases of wealth and of leisure; they also pollute and kill. For good or ill, they are woven inextricably into the fabric of our lives, from birth to death, at home, in school, in paid work. Rich or poor, employed or non- employed, woman or man, ‘black’ or ‘white’, north or south - all of our lives are intertwined with technologies, from simple tools to large technical systems. When this intertwining is discussed in newspapers or other mass media, the dominant account of it can summed up as ‘technological determinism’. Technologies change, either because of scientific advance or following a logic of their own; and they then have effects on society. The development of computer technology, for example, is often seen as following trajectories that are close to natural laws, the most famous being Moore’s law, describing how the number of components on a state-of-the-art microchip doubles in a fixed, predictable period of time (originally a year; now 18 months). This ‘defining rule of the modern world’ (Malone, 1995) fuels an information and communication technology revolution that, numerous pundits tell, is changing and will change the way we live. Technological Determinism as a Theory of Society