Everyday Engineering
An Ethnography of Design and Innovation
$44.29
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
23 January 2009
Summary
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 tra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262512640 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262512645 |
| Author: | Dominique Vinck |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 23 January 2009 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Inside Technology |
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This collection presents multiple worlds of work in an accessible way that nonetheless emphasizes their complexity—a rarity in any academic writing, and especially difficult to achieve in ethnographic studies.
– Scott Taylor * Prometheus *About The Author
Dominique Vinck
Dominique Vinck is Professor at Pierre Mend 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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