Living in a material world: Economic sociology meets science and technology studies – Part 1

(BQ) In this book, an attempt is made to reconceptualize the meeting between the economy and technology with the help of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and economic sociology. Both of these approaches are relatively young and have developed new sets of ideas and concepts that have not yet been assimilated into mainstream social science. The theoretical point at which we suggest that economic and technological analysis may come together is in the idea of materiality, or the notion that social existence involves not only actors and social relations but also objects.