The Society for Social Studies of Science is the oldest and largest scholarly association devoted to understanding science and technology. While as many of us study technology as science, we continue to use our original name, or simply "4S". Mission
The Society for Social Studies of Science exists to facilitate communication across conventional boundaries that separate the disciplines and across
national boundaries that separate scholars. 4S includes scholars in sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, political science, economics, and psychology. Areas of study that fall outside of the traditional academic disciplines are also welcome such as feminist studies and cultural studies, as well as those addressing science and technology for the public studies of knowledge, policy, R&D, the development and use of specific technologies, working scientists and engineers interested in the social aspects of their fields, and
members of the public who have an interest in the way that science and technology affect their lives.
