STS Concepts
A
Actant
Actor-network theory
Affordance
Agency
Alienation
Appropriation
Artefact
B
Biography of Artefacts Framework
Black box
Boundary object
Boundary work
C
Case study
Closure
Co-production (or sometimes co-construction or co-evolution)
Communicative rationality
Community
Community of Practice
Constructive technology assessment
Consumption junction
Controversy studies
Convergence
Critical theory
Cultural fix
Cyborg
D
Deficit model
Delegation
Description
Deskilling
Discourse analysis
Division of labour
Domestication
E
Empiricism
Epistemology
Essentialism
Essentially contested concept
Ethnography
Evolutionary economics
F
Factish
Falsification
Forced technology choice
Fordism
G
Gender script
Gender shapes technology
Genomics
Geographical disembedding
Globalisation
Governance
Gynotechnics
H
Hermeneutics
Hybrid
I
I-methodology
Ideal type
Idealism
Identity
Incremental innovation
Induction
Industrial revolution
Information society
Infrastructure
Inscription
Instrumental rationality
Intermediary organisation
Internalist history
Interpretive flexibility
J
K
L
Large technical system
Level of analysis
Liberalism
Lifeworld
Linear model
Long waves
Luddites
M
Material-semiotic actor
Mediation
Methodological individualism
Mode II
Model
Modernism
Modernity
Momentum
Multiscalar approach
N
Nanotechnology
National system of innovation
Normal science
Normativity
Norms
Nutrigenomics
O
Objectivity
Ontology
P
Paradigm
Parliament of things
Participant observation
Patents
Path dependency
Performativity
Philosophy
Politics of Artifacts
Positivism
Post-humanism
Post-modernity
Principle of Causality
P cont.
Principle of Impartiality
Principle of Symmetry
Q
Quasi-objects
Quiddity
R
Realism
Reflexive modernity
Reflexivity
Regulation
Reification
Relevant social groups
Representation
Reverse salient
Risk society
S
Social construction of technology (SCOT)
Sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK)
STS
Schumpeterian entrepreneur
Scientific paradigm
Script
Sensitisation
Social shaping of technology
Sociology of translation
Sociotechnical systems
Space of flows
Stabilisation
Standardized Package(s)
Strong program
Strong programme
Surveillance
Sustainability
System builder
T
Tech fix
Techno-economic paradigm
Techno-science
Technological determinism
Technological drama
Technological regime
Technological somnambulism
Technology
Technoscience
Thick description
Trajectory
Transational infrastructure
Transdisciplinary Research
Triple helix
Technological Nationalism
U
Unintended consequences
User heuristic
User-producer relations
V
Vertical integration
Virtuality
WXYZ
weak program (Bloor version, Restivo/Chubin version) Whig history