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Growing interest to study Science and Technology started to emerge as an interdisciplinary field of study during the 1970s, under the umbrella term science and technology studies (STS). The same analytical frameworks started to use in the studies of science and technology. The following gives a brief overview of the important trajectories of the development of sociological interest in studying technology since the rise of science and Technology studies, how sociology started to view technology, and the major theoretical approaches with some sample works.