British sociologist

Trevor J. Pinch (1 January 1952 – 16 December 2021) was a British sociologist, part-time musician and chair of the Science and Technology Studies department at Cornell University. In 2018, he won the J.D. Bernal Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science for "distinguished contributions to Science and Technology Studies over the course of career".

Contents

• 1 Life and career
• 2 Works
  • 2.1 Books
  • 2.2 Chapters in books
  • 2.3 Journal articles
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Life and career

Pinch was born in Lisnaskea, Northern Ireland on 1 January 1952. He held a degree in Physics from Imperial College London and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bath.

He taught sociology at the University of York before moving to the United States. Together with Wiebe Bijker, Pinch started the movement known as Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) within the sociology of science.

Pinch died from cancer, four years after his initial diagnosis, on 16 December 2021, at the age of 69.

Works

Pinch was a significant contributor to the study of Sound culture, and his books include a major study of Robert Moog. His book, Confronting Nature is widely considered the definitive sociological account of the history of the solar neutrino problem, and was mentioned by Raymond Davis in his 2002 Nobel Prize autobiography.

Books

• Pinch, Trevor; Bijker, Wiebe E.; Hughes, Thomas P. (1987). The social construction of technological systems: new directions in the sociology and history of technology. Cambridge, M*achusetts: MIT Press. ISBN:9780262022620.
• Pinch, Trevor; Mulkay, Michael; Ashmore, Malcolm (1989). Health and efficiency: a sociology of health economics. Milton Keynes England Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN:9780335099122.
• Pinch, Trevor; Gooding, David; Schaffer, Simon (1989). The uses of experiment: studies in the natural sciences. Cambridge England New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN:9780521337687.
• Pinch, Trevor; Collins, Harry M. (1998) . The golem: what you should know about science (2nd:ed.). Cambridge England New York City: Cambridge University Press. ISBN:9781107604650.
• Pinch, Trevor; Collins, Harry M. (2014) . The golem at large: what you should know about technology (6th:ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN:9781107688285.
• Pinch, Trevor; Trocco, Frank (2002). *og days the invention and impact of the Moog synthesizer. Cambridge, M*achusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN:9780674016170.
• Pinch, Trevor; Oudshoorn, Nellie (2005). How users matter the co-construction of users and technology. Cambridge, M*achusetts: MIT Press. ISBN:9780262651097.
• Pinch, Trevor; Collins, Harry M. (2005). Dr. Golem how to think about medicine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN:9780226113692.

Chapters in books

• Pinch, Trevor; Kline, Ronald (1999) , "The social construction of technology", in MacKenzie, Donald; Wajcman, Judy (eds.), The social shaping of technology (2nd:ed.), Buckingham England Philadelphia: Open University Press, pp.:113–115, ISBN:9780335199136.
• Pinch, Trevor; Bijker, Wiebe E. (1987), "The social construction of facts and artefacts: or how the sociology of science and the sociology of technology might benefit each other", in Pinch, Trevor; Bijker, Wiebe E.; Hughes, Thomas P. (eds.), The social construction of technological systems: new directions in the sociology and history of technology, Cambridge, M*achusetts: MIT Press, pp.:17–50, ISBN:9780262022620.
• Pinch, Trevor; Ashmore, Malcolm; Mulkay, Michael (1992), "Technology, testing, text: clinical budgeting in the UK National Health Service", in Bijker, Wiebe E.; Law, John (eds.), Shaping technology/building society: studies in sociotechnical change, Cambridge, M*achusetts: MIT Press, pp.:265–289, ISBN:9780262521949.
• Pinch, Trevor (1996), "The social construction of technology: a review", in Fox, Robert (ed.), Technological change: methods and themes in the history of technology, Amsterdam, Holland: Harwood Academic Publishers, pp.:17–35, ISBN:9789057023378.
• Pinch, Trevor (2001), "Why do you go to a piano store to buy a synthesizer: path dependence and the social construction of technology", in Garud, Raghu; Karnøe, Peter (eds.), Path dependence and creation, Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum *ociates, pp.:381–399, ISBN:9780805832723.

Journal articles

• Pinch, Trevor; Bijker, Wiebe E. (August 1984). "The social construction of facts and artefacts: or how the sociology of science and the sociology of technology might benefit each other" (PDF). Social Studies of Science. 14 (3): 388–441. doi:10.1177/030631284014003004. S2CID:19157599.

Russell, Stewart (May 1986). "The social construction of artefacts: a response to Pinch and Bijker". Social Studies of Science. 16 (2): 331–346. doi:10.1177/0306312786016002008. S2CID:144072557.

• Pinch, Trevor; Bijker, Wiebe E. (May 1986). "Science, relativism and the new sociology of technology: reply to Russell". Social Studies of Science. 16 (2): 347–360. doi:10.1177/0306312786016002009. S2CID:146498773.
• Pinch, Trevor (November 1990). "Deconstructing Roth and Barrett". Social Studies of Science. 20 (4): 658–663. doi:10.1177/030631290020004004. S2CID:144299717.
• Pinch, Trevor; Kline, Ronald (October 1996). "Users as agents of technological change: the social construction of the automobile in the rural United States". Technology and Culture. 37 (4): 763–795. doi:10.2307/3107097. JSTOR:3107097.
• Pinch, Trevor (January 2010). "On making infrastructure visible: putting the non-humans to rights". Cambridge Journal of Economics. 34 (1): 77–89. doi:10.1093/cje/bep044.

References

External links

• Trevor Pinch at Cornell S&TS