Boundary objects between arthistory, history of technology, and sociology

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Michel Callon, Society in the Making: The Study of Technology as a Tool for Sociological Analyses

  • study of technology can be transformed into a sociological tool of analysis
  • engineers developing new technology constantly construct hypotheses and forms of argument => they are engineer-sociologists
  • during phases of invention (birth of an idea) and innovation (commercialization), it is not possible to distinguish between activites that are distinctly technical or scientific from others that are social or political or guided by economic or commercial logic; often it is believed that the phase of innovation only solves technical problems, which is not true--particularly in case of radical innovations
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