ABSTRACT
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary field that examines science, technology and closely connected areas as social and material activities. The central stance of STS is the idea that all aspects of science and technology can be studied and understood as constructed – that is, made by particular people with particular aims, operating in specific contexts using certain materials. In part, the development of STS has been a history of increasing the scope of this anti-essentialism about science and technology, starting with scientific knowledge, and expanding to artifacts, methods, observations, phenomena, classifications, institutions and cultures.
