Career
Bijker was an assistant and associate professor of philosophy from 1987 at the Maastricht University before becoming full professor of technology and society in 1994. Bijker's fields of research include social and historical studies of science,technology and society;theories of technology development;methodology of science,technology and society studies;democratisation of technological culture;science and technology policies;ICT,multimedia and the social-cultural dimensions of the information society;gender and technology;and meta studies of architecture,planning,and civil engineering. With Trevor Pinch he is considered as one of the main adherents of the Social Construction of Technology-approach,(SCOT) [3] their 1984 article "The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts:or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit Each Other" is cited as the first substantive work to elaborate on the SCOT perspective. [4] Central to the SCOT theoretical framework is the idea of 'interpretive flexibility',that is that the products of scientific and technological endeavours are not fixed on a given trajectory determined by a physical nature,but rather interact with the social environments in which they are produced. [4] To illustrate their theorectical argument Pinch and Bijker,in their 1984 article,use the development of the bicycle and the substantive shaping of this through the influences of various user groups,manufacturers and interested others. [5]
On 12 May 2017 Wiebe Bijker became emeritus professor. [6]
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