Talk:Closure (psychology)

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[edit] Satirical and bitter?

Is it just me, or is this page extremely satirical and bitter?

Derrick Coetzee 03:26, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Yea, it seems pretty silly --Taak 23:51, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

And it is under a ridiculous title. Whatever it ought to be under (if anything), it certainly shouldn't be "sociology". "Social psychology" just maybe, "psychobabble" would be better. Tannin 00:25, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

It would be just regular psych, not social psych. --Taak 01:20, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

I agree; the way it's written is silly. Michael Hardy 22:08, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Closure (science and technology studies)

The addition on closure in STS doesn't really seem to belong in a page Closure (Psychology).... perhaps we need a disambiguation page and a new article for the STS stuff?Bryan 16:15, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Agreed taken out.--Dwarf Kirlston 00:50, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

The term is also used in social construction of technology (SCOT) as described by Wiebe Bijker, Trevor Pinch and John Law, among others. The focus of SCOT-studies is to examine the ways in which technological artifacts, which are part of broader technological systems, are socially constructed by so-called relevant social groups or actors. This in essence often means explaining why an artifact looks the way it does. Closure here refers to the end of the process of social construction, meaning that the artifact no longer goes through dramatic changes. Bijker has exemplified this with the development of the bicycle.

References (closure in technological change)

• Pinch, T. J., & Bijker, W. E. (1984). The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit Each Other. Social Studies of Science, 14, 388–441.
• Misa, T. J. (1992). Controversy and Closure in Technological Change: Constructing "Steel". In W. E. Bijker & J. Law (Eds.), Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change (pp. 109–139). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

[edit] Old Harry's Game

To quote satan in Old Harry's Game: "Did someone just use the word 'closure' - where's that sledgehammer?"