Trevor Pinch
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Trevor J. Pinch | |
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Born | Lisnaskea, Northern Ireland |
1 January 1952
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Bath |
Academic work | |
Notable works | Confronting Nature |
Notable ideas | Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) |
Trevor J. Pinch (born 1 January 1952),[1] is a British sociologist, part-time musician and former chair of the Science and Technology Studies department at Cornell University.
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Early life
Pinch was born in Lisnaskea, Northern Ireland.[2]
Education
He has a degree in Physics from the Imperial College London and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bath.
Career
He taught sociology at the University of York before moving to the USA.
Together with Wiebe Bijker he started the movement known as Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) within the sociology of science.
Works
He is a significant contributor to the study of Sound culture, and his books include a major study of Robert Moog.
Pinch's 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.[3]
Books
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Chapters in books
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Journal articles
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References
External links
- EngvarB from April 2015
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- Articles with hCards
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- 1952 births
- Alumni of Imperial College London
- Alumni of the University of Bath
- Academics of the University of York
- Cornell University faculty
- Historians of technology
- Living people
- Scottish sociologists
- Men sociologists
- Sociologists of science