Um Olhar Sociotécnico sobre a Engenharia de Software

Abstract

New technologies modify the form and the substance of social control, participation and cohesion. However, as they modify, they are also modified by social practices in such a way it is possible to argue that social and technical dimensions constitute a process of mutual construction, only apprehended through an approach simultaneously social and technical, trough a sociotechnical frame. This article presents some of this frame’s main features, as well as its challenges to software engineering.