Bernd Wingert

Selected Results from German Language Studies in the Social Sciences on the Effects of CAD-Techniques

When one has worked for several years in a certain area, in an interdisciplinary project with an expanding network of contacts to similar studies, to current projects or to studies at the planning stage, the impression of a mainstream of research will gradually emerge. In the preparation of this contribution which will attempt a content analysis of several German language studies on CAD it became apparent that there are in fact not all that many completed or truly empirical studies. Therefore, we shall first refer to studies whose central theme was not CAD although they dealt with CAD as one aspect of their subject. These studies will not be included in the following analysis. As a rule, they are dealt with in separate publications and several of the researchers whose projects are mentioned attended the workshop so that they were able to present results and details in the discussion. Despite the heterogeneity of approaches, methods selected and cognitive interests, an attempt will be made in the section after the next to point out similarities - or in some cases discrepancies — with regard to certain theses.

Zur betrieblichen Gestaltung von CAD-Anwendungen

Vor kurzem wies BURKHART LUTZ, der Leiter des Instituts fur sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, darauf hin, das eine der wichtigsten Erkenntnisse der deutschen Industriesoziologie der 70er Jahre die des Fehlens eines deterministischen Zusammenhangs zwischen Technik und organisatorischen Auswirkungen sei /1/.