Berliner Schlüssel zur Techniksoziologie

This volume offers a cross-section of a good fifteen years of research in the sociology of technology and innovation at the Department of Sociology of Technology headed by Werner Rammert at the TU Berlin. All articles in this volume were initiated or discussed there and thus bear a "Berlin signature" in a certain sense - not in the sense of a clearly delimited scientific school, but rather in the form of an open discussion group with different, but mutually interrelated focal points. The Berlin Key, which gives the title, imposes on all its users the programme of action objectified in its mechanism: "User, if after unlocking the door you want to take the key back and go your way, you must first lock the door again. Unlike that Berlin key, the "Berlin Keys to the Sociology of Technology" presented here offer a set of keys to different but interconnected conceptual and methodological approaches in social science research on technology and innovation.