On The Development View Shaping Technological Innovation

The Social Shaping of Technology(SST) is a new-style research on technology arose in Europe and America in 1980s,and it is called a new kind of sociology of technology.Compared with STS(Science,Technology and Society),SST emphasizes the influnce of social factors on shaping of technology particularly.SST emphasizes the complexity, changeability, selectivity of technology and the diversity of technological innovation's pathway.The shaping of technological innovation is decided by variety factors,and multi social-technological factors participates in the process of technological innovation.Based on SST,the thesis will treat technological innovation as a process of social,and probe into the development view shaping technological innovation.The view of traditional development treated development as...