Everyday Engineering by Dominique Vinck

Everyday Engineering by Dominique Vinck

A guide to the everyday working world of engineers, written by researchers trained in both engineering and sociology.

Everyday Engineering was written to help future engineers understand what they are going to be doing in their everyday working lives, so that they can do their work more effectively and with a broader social vision. It will also give sociologists deeper insights into the sociotechnical world of engineering. The book consists of ethnographic studies in which the authors, all trained in both engineering and sociology, go into the field as participant-observers. The sites and types of engineering explored include mechanical design in manufacturing industries, instrument design, software debugging, environmental management within companies, and the implementation of a system for separating household waste.

The book is organized in three parts. The first part introduces the complexity of technical practices. The second part enters the social and cultural worlds of designers to grasp their practices and motivations. The third part examines the role of writing practices and graphical representation. The epilogue uses the case studies to raise a series of questions about how objects can be taken into account in sociological analyses of human organizations.

Vinck, Dominique: - Dominique Vinck is Professor at Pierre Mendü¾Ž†”¼ s-France University and at the Polytechnic National Institute of Grenoble. He is also a member of CRISTO, a research center associated with CNRS that focuses on sociotechnical innovation and industrial organizations.

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ISBN 13	9780262512640
ISBN 10	0262512645
Title	Everyday Engineering
Author	Dominique Vinck
Series	Everyday Engineering
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	2009-01-23
Number of pages	256
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