技术与社会之间关系的SST解读——兼评“技术的社会形成”理论

技术的社会形成理论是在批判技术决定的基础上产生的。它赋予社会的因素在技术的形成过程中的重要作用,强调技术与社会之间的互惠关系,从而避免了技术决定论和社会决定论的片面性与极端性,更接近与技术与社会之间的客观情况。从技术的社会形成理论对技术决定论的批判中以及技术的选择和技术创新等层面,分析了SST语境中的技术与社会之间的关系。

The Relations of Technology and Society under the Social Shaping of Technology(SST)

The theory of the social shaping of technology comes into being on the basic of animadverting on the technological determinism.It endows social factors with important effects in the shaping of technology.It emphasizes the mutual connections between technology and society and avoids the unilateralism and extremity in the technological determinism and the social determinism,and so it is more close to the external instance between technology and society.In this paper,it analyzes the relations between technology and society in the view of SST from the animadverting on the technological determinism by the social shaping of technology,technological choice and technological innovation,etc.