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PhD Sociology University of York
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According to Wikipedia, Trevor J. Pinch 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 [a] career."

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The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit Each Other (1984) (3739)
The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (1989) (2520)
Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (1995) (1144)
How users matter : The co-construction of users and technologies (2003) (932)
Users as Agents of Technological Change: The Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States (1996) (516)
Book-Review - the Golem - what Everyone Should Know about Science (1993) (274)
Towards an Analysis of Scientific Observation: The Externality and Evidential Significance of Observational Reports in Physics (1985) (198)
The Construction of the Paranormal: Nothing Unscientific is Happening (1979) (197)
Technology and institutions: living in a material world (2008) (189)
The Uses of Experiment (1992) (173)
How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology (Inside Technology) (2003) (166)
The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies (2011) (162)
To have and to hold: exploring the personal archive (2006) (159)
Confronting nature : the sociology of solar-neutrino detection (1986) (153)
User-technology relationships: Some Recent Developments (2007) (149)
Introduction: How users and non-users matter (2003) (149)
Six degrees of reputation: The use and abuse of online review and recommendation systems (2006) (139)
"Testing - One, Two, Three ... Testing!": Toward a Sociology of Testing (1993) (127)
Health and efficiency : a sociology of health economics (1989) (121)
Living in a Material World: Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies (2008) (118)
How users and non-users matter (2003) (117)
Sociomateriality is 'the New Black': Accomplishing repurposing, reinscripting and repairing in context (2013) (110)
The Invisible Technologies of Goffman's Sociology From the Merry-Go-Round to the Internet (2010) (95)
The Sun-Set: The Presentation of Certainty in Scientific Life (1981) (92)
Sound Studies (2004) (90)
Frames of Meaning: The Social Construction of Extraordinary Science (2008) (90)
Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer (2002) (88)
Managing prospect affiliation and rapport in real-life sales encounters (2003) (86)
The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology (1998) (82)
Theory Testing in Science—The Case of Solar Neutrinos: Do Crucial Experiments Test Theories or Theorists? (1985) (77)
Scientific Knowledge , Controversy , and Public Decision-Making (2013) (72)
The Hard Sell: `Patter Merchanting' and the Strategic (Re)Production and Local Management of Economic Reasoning in the Sales Routines of Markt Pitchers (1986) (70)
Dr. Golem: How to Think about Medicine (2005) (69)
Science, Relativism and the New Sociology of Technology: Reply to Russell (1986) (65)
How Users Matter. The Co-construction of Technologies and Users (2003) (64)
The Reflexive Thesis: Wrighting Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. (1990) (60)
On Making Infrastructure Visible: Putting the Non-Humans to Rights (2010) (60)
New Keys to the World of Sound (2011) (57)
Inside Knowledge: Second Order Measures of Skill (1996) (55)
Opening Black Boxes: Science, Technology and Society (1992) (54)
Hubris and Hybrids: A Cultural History of Technology and Science (2006) (54)
"Should One Applaud?" Breaches and Boundaries in the Reception of New Technology in Music (2003) (53)
The Culture of Scientists and Disciplinary Rhetoric (1990) (52)
Art and Artifact in Laboratory Science: A Study of Shop Work and Shop Talk in A Research Laboratory. (1987) (49)
Performing Sales: Material Scripts and the Social Organization of Obligation (2013) (44)
What Does a Proof Do if it Does Not Prove (1977) (43)
Private Science and Public Knowledge: The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of the Claims of the Paranormal and its Use of the Literature (1984) (43)
Clinical budgeting: Experimentation in the social sciences: A drama in five acts (1989) (43)
Review Essay: Karen Barad, quantum mechanics, and the paradox of mutual exclusivity (2011) (40)
Normal Explanations of the Paranormal: The Demarcation Problem and Fraud in Parapsychology (1979) (38)
Measuring the Quality of Life: A Sociological Invention Concerning the Application of Economics to Health Care (1987) (37)
Sound Studies: New Technologies and Music (2011) (36)
Paradigm Lost? A Review Symposium (1979) (35)
SCOT Answers, Other Questions: A Reply to Nick Clayton (2002) (34)
Managing Customer `Objections' during Real-Life Sales Negotiations (1994) (32)
Colonizing the Mind: Dilemmas in the Application of Social Science (1987) (31)
Turn, Turn, and Turn Again: The Woolgar Formula (1993) (31)
Theoreticians and the Production of Experimental Anomaly: The Case of Solar Neutrinos (1981) (29)
The Sociology of Science and Technology (2007) (27)
Why you go to a piano store to buy a synthesizer: Path dependence and the social construction of technology (2001) (25)
Laughter and the profit motive: the use of humor in a photographic shop (1993) (23)
Hearing and the Hospital: Sound, Listening, Knowledge, and Experience. Tom Rice, Canon Pyon, Herefordshire, UK: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2013, 204 pp. (2015) (23)
The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in Sociology and History of Technology (25th Anniversary Edition with new preface) (2012) (19)
How Do We Treat Technical Uncertainty in Systems Failure? The Case of the Space Shuttle Challenger 1 (1991) (18)
Technologically Dense Environments: What For? What Next? (2014) (18)
The anatomy of a deception: Fraud and finesse in the Mock Auction sales ‘con’ (1992) (16)
Organisation, Interaction and Practice: Some major organisational consequences of some ‘minor’, organised conduct: evidence from a video analysis of pre-verbal service encounters in a showroom retail store (2010) (16)
Kuhn — The Conservative and Radical Interpretations: Are Some Mertonians `Kuhnians' and Some Kuhnians `Mertonians'? (1997) (16)
Briging it all back home: some implications of recent science and technology studies for the classroom science teacher (1998) (16)
Cold fusion and the sociology of scientific knowledge (1994) (15)
Preface to the Anniversary Edition (2021) (15)
Some suggestions from sociology of science to advance the psi debate (1987) (14)
Sociology of sciences : an annotated bibliography on invisible colleges, 1972-1981 (1985) (13)
The golem: Uncertainty and communicating science (2000) (12)
Generations of SSK (1993) (10)
Social Construction and Neoinstitutional Theory (2000) (9)
Explorations in Islamic Science. Ziauddin Sardar (1991) (9)
Lifeworld and Technology (1990) (9)
Dialogues Between Artistic Research and Science and Technology Studies (2019) (9)
Comment on “Nudges and Cultural Variance” (2010) (8)
"Emulating Sound. What Synthesizers can and can't do: Explorations In the Social Construction of Sound" (2013) (8)
Complexities: Social Studies of Knowledge Practices. Edited by John Law and Annemarie Mol. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. 295. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). (2003) (8)
Betrayers of the Truth – Fraud and Deceit in Science (1985) (8)
The hidden- variables controversy in quantum physics (1979) (7)
The Role of Scientific Communities in the Development of Science. (1990) (6)
Golem – How to think about medicine (2009) (6)
Book Reviewing For Amazon.com: How Socio-Technical Systems Struggle to Make Less from More (2012) (6)
The sociology of technology. (2003) (5)
Recontextualising Sales Resistance (2001) (5)
Is Anti-Science not-Science? (1979) (4)
On Misunderstanding the Hard Sell (1987) (4)
The Golem at Large: The naked launch: assigning blame for the Challenger explosion (2002) (4)
Deconstructing Roth and Barrett (1990) (4)
Half a House: (1999) (4)
Does science studies undermine science? Wittgenstein, Turing and Polanyi as precursors for science studies and the science wars (2001) (4)
Who is to blame for the Challenger explosion (2007) (4)
Science as a cultural construct (1997) (3)
The Golem at Large: ACTing UP: AIDS cures and lay expertise (2002) (3)
The Golem at Large: A clean kill?: the role of Patriot in the Gulf War (2002) (3)
“Bring on Sector Two!” The sounds of bent and broken circuits (2016) (3)
Discussion of Nature of Science Provokes Hit‐or‐Myth Debate (1997) (3)
The socially organized basis of everyday ‘economic’ conduct: evidence from video recordings of real-life pre-verbal salesperson-shopper encounters in a showroom retail store (2009) (3)
Online Music Sites as Sonic Sociotechnical Communities: Identity, Reputation, and Technology at ACIDplanet.com (2011) (3)
Drifting Continents and Colliding Paradigms: Perspectives on the Geoscience Revolution. (1991) (3)
In and Out of the Petri Dish: Science and S&TS (1995) (2)
4. Cutting Up Skills: Estimating Difficulty as an Element of Surgical and Other Abilities (1997) (2)
Sociologists, Scientist Pick at Threads of Argument about Science (1997) (2)
The Golem at Large: The world according to Gold: disputes about the origins of oil (2002) (2)
Rationality and paradigm allegiance in extraordinary science (1981) (2)
Instruments and Innovation (2015) (2)
Moments in the Valuation of Sound: The Early History of Synthesizers (2015) (2)
A Hitchhiker's Guide to STS@@@Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (1995) (2)
Between Technology and Music (2015) (2)
Tidings of comfort and joy: Seven Wise Men and the science of economics (2002) (2)
Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge.Karin Knorr-Cetina (2000) (2)
Relativism: Is it Worth the Candle? (2016) (2)
Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life.Theodore M. Porter (1996) (2)
Comment: All Pumped Up about the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (2017) (2)
Six degrees of reputation (2006) (2)
New Technologies and Music (2016) (2)
Allan Franklin. The Neglect of Experiment . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xii + 290. ISBN 0-521-32016-X. £30.00. (1988) (2)
Strata Various (1986) (2)
Wittgenstein's visit to Ithaca in 1949: on the importance of details (2013) (2)
The Golem: The germs of dissent: Louis Pasteur and the origins of life (2012) (1)
The Electronicists: Techno-aesthetic Encounters for Nonlinear and Art-based Inquiry in HCI (2022) (1)
SocialStools: A Playful, Socio-Spatial Interface for Fostering Togetherness Across Strangers (2022) (1)
The Sociology of the Scientific Community (2020) (1)
Theoretical Approaches to Science, Technology and Social Change: Recent Developments (1998) (1)
Book Review:The Anthropology of Science and Technology David J. Hess, Linda L. Layne (1995) (1)
From Technology Studies to Sound Studies (2019) (1)
Teaching sociology to science and engineering students: some experiences from an introductory science and technology studies course (2008) (1)
TELLING TALES ABOUT HOW CONCEPTS DEVELOP: Stories from ethnographic encounters with the Moog synthesizer (2009) (1)
The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation. By Steven Shapin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xviii+468. $29.00. (2010) (1)
Final Response to McKinney (1999) (1)
The Golem: A new window on the universe: the non-detection of gravitational radiation (2012) (1)
Sociologists, Scientist Continue Debate about Scientific Process (1996) (1)
Tacit Knowledge and Realism and Constructivism in the Writings of Harry Collins (2013) (1)
The Interactional Study of Exchange Relationships: An Analysis of Patter Merchants at Work on Street Markets (1994) (1)
Book Reviews (1986) (1)
False Prophets: Fraud and Error in Science and Medicine (1987) (1)
Science as Golem. (1996) (1)
Performativity and economic demonstrations: pitching quality and quantity (2010) (1)
Growing up in SLAC (1989) (1)
Designing and Building communIT (2021) (1)
RESPONSE TO D. WADE HANDS'S CONJECTURES AND REPUTATIONS (1997) (1)
Karen Barad, quantum mechanics, and the paradox of mutual exclusivity. Author's Reply (2011) (1)
Preface to second edition (2012) (0)
Controversies in Science (1986) (0)
The Golem: The sex life of the whiptail lizard (2012) (0)
The Interpretative Flexibility of Evidential Contexts (1986) (0)
Introduction: the golem (2012) (0)
Cold Fusion Fiasco (1992) (0)
Experiment and Evidential Context — Funding the Link (1986) (0)
The Golem at Large: Crash!: nuclear fuel flasks and anti-misting kerosene on trial (2002) (0)
The Golem: Two experiments that ‘proved’ the theory of relativity (2012) (0)
sovereignty is contested today, therefore, it is always and only among (2016) (0)
De-scription at early phases of artifact design (2022) (0)
Essay Review (2007) (0)
Immanuel Velikovsky and the return of the fringe (2014) (0)
Acknowledgement to reviewers (2010) (0)
Keynote 2: Electronic Music Filtered Through Science and Technology Studies (2016) (0)
Pulling apart the quantum’s entanglement with the counter culture: How fysiks became physics (2012) (0)
31. Peace for Whom and on Whose Terms (2019) (0)
On chance and contingency in science and art (2006) (0)
Saving Schools: Vacancy, Ruin, and Adaptive Reuse in Detroit (2018) (0)
PROPERTY OF THE MIT PRESS FOR PROOFREADING, INDEXING, AND PROMOTIONAL PURPOSES ONLY (2015) (0)
How Experiments End (1988) (0)
Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science. By Mary Jo Nye. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xii+405. $45.00. (2013) (0)
The Sociology of the Scientific Community (2020) (0)
Reply to Hardin (1981) (0)
Space is the Place: The Electronic Sounds of Inner and Outer Space (2014) (0)
Old habits die hard: Retrieving practices from social theory (1997) (0)
In this issue (2010) (0)
Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP. By Susan Schmidt Horning. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xi + 292 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1022-7 (2016) (0)
Pulling apart the quantum’s entanglement with the counter culture: How fysiks became physics (2012) (0)
Book Review:Psychical Research: A Guide to Its History, Principles, and Practices I. Grattan-Guinness (1983) (0)
Book Review: The Science Studies Reader (2002) (0)
The development of solar-neutrino astronomy : the theoretical-experimental nexus and the social deconstruction and construction of knowledge (1982) (0)
What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History. By Walter G. Vincenti · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, viii + 326 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-8018-3974-2 (1992) (0)
Book Review: Human Resources, Management, and Personnel: Selling Technology: The Changing Shape of Sales in an Information Economy (2008) (0)
The Golem at Large: Preface and acknowledgements (2002) (0)
Erving Goffman as Sociologist of Technology (2012) (0)
The Golem at Large: Tidings of comfort and joy: Seven Wise Men and the science of economics (2014) (0)
Masters of Uncertainty: Weather Forecasters and the Quest for Ground Truth (2017) (0)
Puritanism and the Rise of Modern Science: The Merton Thesis.Edited by I. Bernard Cohen with K.E. Duffin and Stuart Strickland. Afterword by Robert K. Merton. Rutgers University Press, 1990. 360 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $17.00 (1992) (0)
The Golem at Large: Introduction: the technological golem (2014) (0)
Hillel Schwartz.Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond. 912 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Zone Books, 2011. $38 (cloth). (2013) (0)
The Golem at Large: References and further reading (2002) (0)
Peace for whom on whose terms (2001) (0)
The social construction of technology (2018) (0)
Book Reviews (1987) (0)
Conclusion — Evidential Contexts and Social Contexts (1986) (0)
Book Reviews (1985) (0)
The Golem: Edible knowledge: the chemical transfer of memory (2012) (0)
Andrew Pickering;, Keith Guzik (Editors).The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society, and Becoming. xiv + 306 pp., illus. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008. $23.95 (paper). (2010) (0)
Thomas Parke Hughes: 13 September 1923 * 3 February 2014 (2016) (0)
Afterword: Golem and the scientists (2012) (0)
Book review: "Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths" by Stefan Timmermans (2008) (0)
Set the controls for the heart of the sun: the strange story of the missing solar neutrinos (2012) (0)
On Chance and Contingency (2006) (0)
The Golem: The sun in a test tube: the story of cold fusion 5 (2012) (0)
Coda (2020) (0)
The Golem at Large: The science of the lambs: Chernobyl and the Cumbrian sheepfarmers (2002) (0)
Book Review:Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy Barbara Herrnstein Smith (1998) (0)
Comment on Richard Swedberg/3 (2008) (0)
The science of the lambs: Chernobyl and the Cumbrian sheepfarmers (2014) (0)
Book Review (2000) (0)
The Sound of Economic Exchange (2020) (0)
How Institutions Think. Mary Douglas (1988) (0)
Experiment and Evidential Context: Their Early History and Background (1986) (0)
Alchemy and Parapsychology (1983) (0)
Auctions: The social construction of value: Charles W. Smith, Harvester Wheatshef, London, 1989. pp. xii + 225, [UK pound]25.00.$45.00 (1989) (0)
Consolidating the Link (1986) (0)
Trying to lift science out of the doldrums (1995) (0)
Thematic Series: Sonic Impressions at Green College - Listening and Participating in AcidPlanet: A study of An Online Music Site (2011) (0)
Coda: Testing and Why It Matters (2021) (0)
Lewis Pyenson. The Young Einstein: The Advent of Relativity. Bristol and Boston: Adam Hilger, 1985. Pp. xiv + 246. ISBN 0-85274-779-9. £19.95, $28.00. (1987) (0)
Farewell to Reason.Paul Feyerabend (1989) (0)
Mikael Håard, Andrew Jamison. Hubris and Hybrids: A Cultural History of Technology and Science. New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. xv, 335. $90.00 (2006) (0)
J. A. Schuster & R. R. Yeo (eds). The Politics and Rhetoric of Scientific Method. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1986. Pp. xxxix + 305. ISBN 90-277-2152-1. £42.45. (1987) (0)
Application of Social Science (2016) (0)
The Reception of Davis’s Results — When is a Contradiction Not a Contradiction? (1986) (0)
Conclusion: the golem goes to work (2002) (0)
Book Review:Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony James T. Cushing (1996) (0)
The Golem: Preface to first Canto edition (2012) (0)
The Golem at Large by Harry Collins (2002) (0)
The Golem: Preface and acknowledgements (2012) (0)
In Memoriam (2003) (0)
The Art of a New Technology (2016) (0)
Immanuel Velikovsky and the return of the fringe (2014) (0)
Explanation and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (1986) (0)
Conclusion: putting the golem to work (2012) (0)
Evaluation of communIT, a large-scale, cyber-physical artifact supporting diverse subgroups building community (2022) (0)
Against historicism: critical remarks on Thomas Kuhn's conception of science and its reception in parapsychology (1984) (0)
Sonic imaginaries (0)
Strategic Research Sites for the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (1986) (0)

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