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TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding the Social Practices of Systems Developers
AU - Bloomfield, Brian
PY - 1992/7
Y1 - 1992/7
N2 - The aim of this paper is to explore some of the ways in which we think about the development of information systems by drawing upon arguments articulated within the philosophy of science and the sociology of technology. It argues that many of these approaches operate on the basis of a reified and sociologically restricted view of technology. Drawing upon recent work in the sociology of technology the paper proposes a more thorough-going analysis of the social practice of information systems development and discusses examples from knowledge engineering and requirements analysis to illustrate its argument.
AB - The aim of this paper is to explore some of the ways in which we think about the development of information systems by drawing upon arguments articulated within the philosophy of science and the sociology of technology. It argues that many of these approaches operate on the basis of a reified and sociologically restricted view of technology. Drawing upon recent work in the sociology of technology the paper proposes a more thorough-going analysis of the social practice of information systems development and discusses examples from knowledge engineering and requirements analysis to illustrate its argument.
KW - knowledge engineering
KW - requirements specification
KW - sociology of technology
KW - systems development
U2 - 10.1111/j.1365-2575.1992.tb00075.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1365-2575.1992.tb00075.x
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2
SP - 189
EP - 206
JO - Information Systems Journal
JF - Information Systems Journal
SN - 1365-2575
IS - 3
ER -