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Wiebe E. Bijker (born 19 March 1951, Delft) is a Dutch professor, chair of the Department of Social Science & Technology at the Faculty of Arts & Culture in the Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands.

After finishing Gymnasium in Emmeloord (1969), Bijker received his BSc degree in Philosophy from the Universiteit van Amsterdam (1974), his engineer's degree in Physical Engineering from the Delft University of Technology (1976), and his PhD degree from the Universiteit Twente in 1990. He was an assistant and associate professor of philosophy from 1987 at the Maastricht University before becoming full professor of Technology & Society in 1994.

Bijker's fields of research include social and historical studies of science, technology and society; theories of technology development; methodology of science, technology and society studies; democratisation of technological culture; science and technology policies; ICT, multimedia and the social-cultural dimensions of the information society; gender and technology; and meta studies of architecture, planning, and civil engineering.

[edit] Main works

• with John Law, Technology and heterogeneous engineering : the case of Portuguese expansion, Cambridge, MA : MIT press, 1987.
• with Thomas P. Hughes and Trevor Pinch, The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT press, 1987.
• with John Law (ed.), Shaping Technology/Building Society. Studies in sociotechnical change, Cambridge, Mass. ; London, MIT Press, 1992.
• Of bicycles, bakelites and bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change, Cambridge, Mass ; London MIT press, 1995.
• King of the road : the social construction of the safety bicycle, Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1995.
• with Marc van Lieshout et Tineke M. Egyedi (ed.), Social learning technologies : the introduction of multimedia in education, Aldershot : Ashgate, 2001.

[edit] See also

• Social construction of technology
• Science and technology studies
• Sociology of scientific knowledge

[edit] External links

• Personal website at University of Maastricht

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