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  • adjective Having both social / sociological and technical / technological aspects

Etymologies

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socio- +‎ technical

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Examples

  • The term sociotechnical systems was coined in the 1960s by Eric Trist and Fred Emery, who were working as consultants at the Tavistock Institute in London.

    The FASTForward Blog 2009

  • What Professor Liles is describing here is what historians and sociologists of technology have come to refer to as "sociotechnical systems."

    Forbes.com: News Sean Lawson 2011

  • Shaping technology/building society: Studies in sociotechnical change, edited by W. Bijker and J. Law.

    Philosophy of Technology Franssen, Maarten 2009

  • As a final example, the sociotechnical systems approach to designing work now sounds very much like the relationship-oriented view of how to create a work environment.

    Managing Strategic Relationships Leonard Greenhalgh 2001

  • But people have been operating sociotechnical systems for thousands of years.

    Managing Strategic Relationships Leonard Greenhalgh 2001

  • But people have been operating sociotechnical systems for thousands of years.

    Managing Strategic Relationships Leonard Greenhalgh 2001

  • As a final example, the sociotechnical systems approach to designing work now sounds very much like the relationship-oriented view of how to create a work environment.

    Managing Strategic Relationships Leonard Greenhalgh 2001

  • As a final example, the sociotechnical systems approach to designing work now sounds very much like the relationship-oriented view of how to create a work environment.

    Managing Strategic Relationships Leonard Greenhalgh 2001

  • But people have been operating sociotechnical systems for thousands of years.

    Managing Strategic Relationships Leonard Greenhalgh 2001

  • These changes will challenge the basic values of the corporation as a sociotechnical system and, indeed, may threaten its survival as an economic enterprise.

    Stress and the Manager KARL ALBRECHT 1979

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