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and their lives. Focusing on methods as tools alone and dismissing the more philosophically
grounded debates serves to defer confronting these deeper, more personal questions. The final
two chapters of the book dwell on these matters.

NOTES

1. These include, among others, the Society for the Social Studies of Science, the European Association
   for the Study of Science and Technology, the Society for the History of Technology, and the Society for the
   Philosophy of Technology. See note 2 in the introduction to part III.


2. To be clear, clients may request change-oriented research, but those providing funding resources often
   have certain types of change in mind or parameters of critique within which scholars are expected to remain.