SST视角下对技术创新的再认识

Reflection of Technological Innovation from the Angle of SST

"技术的社会形成"(SST)是一种对技术的社会学分析,强调社会因素在技术发展中起核心作用,借鉴SST的研究进路和方法,从技术创新与社会互动关系研究技术创新过程中技术因素与非技术因素的参与作用,探讨了技术创新的选择性、不确定性和过程性等特征的社会形成,强调成功的技术创新不是单纯取决于技术自身的技术因素,也不是单纯取决于非技术的社会因素,而是取决于形成"新组合"的过程中诸种技术、非技术因素的共同建构,通过"社会的形成"使技术因素与非技术因素形成一定的衔接,进而"社会地形成"技术创新过程。

Social shaping of technology （SST） is essentially a sociological analysis of technology, where the social factors are emphasized to play a nuclear role in technological development. By virtue of the orientation and method in SST research, the effect of either technological or non-technological factors on technological innovation process studied in respect to the interactive relationship between technological innovation and society, thus discussing the social formation of selectivity, uncertainty and procedure in technological innovation. It is emphasized that a successful technological innovation depends not only on the factors of technology itself and non-technological social factors, but also on the recombination of various technological/ non-technological factors＇ as a social framework. It is nothing but the ＂social shaping＂ that links the technological and non-technological factors together and, as a result, the technological innovation comes to pass under social requirements.