Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Social Shaping of Technology	Multi-Level Perspective on Transitions
Πεδίο	Science Technology Studies	Science Technology Studies
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1985	2002
Δημιουργός	Donald MacKenzie, Judy Wajcman, Robin Williams, David Edge	Frank W. Geels (building on Arie Rip and René Kemp)
Τύπος	Analytic tradition and method in the sociology of technology	Conceptual framework and analytic method for sociotechnical change
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	MacKenzie, D., & Wajcman, J. (Eds.). (1999). The Social Shaping of Technology (2nd ed.). Open University Press. ISBN: 9780335199136	Geels, F. W. (2002). Technological transitions as evolutionary reconfiguration processes: a multi-level perspective and a case-study. Research Policy, 31(8-9), 1257-1274.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	SST analysis, Social shaping approach, Shaping of technology framework	MLP, Multi-level perspective framework, Sociotechnical transitions analysis
Συναφείς	4	4
Σύνοψη	The Social Shaping of Technology (SST) is the umbrella tradition in the sociology of technology that rejects technological determinism and argues that the content and trajectory of technical artefacts are themselves outcomes of social, economic, organisational, and political choices. Rather than treating technology as an autonomous force whose effects society must merely absorb, SST analysis opens the 'black box' of design and shows that at every stage—conception, development, standardisation, and use—things could have been, and were, decided otherwise.	The Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) is a middle-range framework for analysing how large sociotechnical systems—energy, mobility, food, water—shift from one dominant configuration to another. It locates change in the interplay of three analytic levels: protected niches where radical novelties incubate, the incumbent sociotechnical regime that structures ordinary practice, and a slow-moving exogenous landscape. Transitions occur when landscape pressures destabilise the regime and open windows of opportunity for maturing niche innovations to break through.