纪念特里弗·平齐:一个STS世界的“建构者”

Memorializing Trevor Pinch:A“Constructor”of the STS World

本文总结了特里弗·平齐的学术研究的三个主要阶段,并简要回顾了他的其他工作以及他与东亚STS学界的渊源。在其职业生涯的早期阶段,即从1970年代后期开始,平齐对“科学知识社会学”做出了重要贡献。自1980年代开始,平齐与同事发展出一个研究技术系统的新路径,即“技术的社会建构”纲领。到了1990年代,平齐对现在被称为“声音研究”的领域产生了浓厚兴趣,对这个跨越艺术、人文和社会科学的跨学科领域的发展起到了重要的推动作用。这三个方面的工作在平齐的学术生涯中紧密相连、相互推进。此外,平齐还致力于经济社会学研究,并为将STS研究介绍给学术界内外的广大受众作出了卓有成效的努力。

This article presents a summary of three phases of Trevor Pinch’s research,as well as an overview of his other works and his encounters with the East Asian STS community.In the initial phase of his career,starting in the late 1970s,Pinch made important contributions to the sociology of scientific knowledge(SSK),which was a major development in the sociology of science at the time.Starting in the 1980s,Pinch helped develop a novel approach to the study of technological systems,which became known as the social construction of technology(SCOT)program.The third area in which he made important contributions is now called“sound studies”,an interdisciplinary area that spans the arts and humanities and social sciences.He continued to make overlapping and simultaneous contributions to all three areas during his extremely active and productive teaching and research career.In addition,Pinch worked on economic sociology and was committed to introducing the STS field to a broad audience within and beyond academia.