sociotechnical
- adjective
- /ˌsoʊsiəʊˈtɛknɪkəl/
- Specialized
- The workshop focused on how sociotechnical factors affect the success of renewable energy projects in urban areas.
- sociotechnical practices
Examples
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As mobile technologies are integrated further into literacy curricula, we must consider—and critique—the ways in which we regulate students' sociotechnical practices with these devices.
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The consequences of peak oil and global financial meltdown are wreaking havoc on the sociotechnical systems that shape our built environment.
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We have argued that they can be linked to different sociotechnical imaginaries that guide invention management.
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His arrival is celebrated by an extraordinary display of sociotechnical choreography.
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Here, a forum suitable for supporting multisector energy-focused sociotechnical change in Latin America is developed and discussed.
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Moreover, it is also recognized that there are alternative conceptions of sustainability and optimal or preferred sociotechnical routes to similar lower carbon goals.
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We approach this comparison using a framework that combines the concepts of path dependencies and sociotechnical imaginaries.
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Transition management advocates' experimental fora in which possibilities for sociotechnical change can be explored among multi-sector stakeholders.
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The concept of "sociotechnical imaginaries" thus implies the idea that societally and historically situated sociotechnical arrangements are coproduced by specific ways of meaning-making; however, in sometimes discontinuous and non-deterministic ways.
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The approach responds to the way in which sociotechnical systems are complex and adaptive, and the way in which transitions management seeks to guide transition processes via experiments and collaborative visioning, coupling this with participatory futures or scenario design processes.
Academic text (2018)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sociotechnical is made of the parts socio- meaning 'people' and technical meaning 'tools or technology'. So a sociotechnical idea is about how people and tools work together in a system, which is why the word describes both social and technical parts at the same time.