GENERAL CONCEPTS

• Science and Technology and Society is an interdisciplinary course designed to examine the ways that science and technology shape, and are shaped by, our society, politics, and culture. It explores the conditions under which production, distribution and utilization of scientific knowledge and technological systems occur;; and the effects of these processes upon the entire society.
• Science - is an evolving body of knowledge that is based on theoretical expositions and experimental and empirical activities that generates universal truths.
• Technology - is the application of science and creation of systems, processes and objects designed to help humans in their daily activities.
• The development of science and technology has brought immense progress in society
• Scientific knowledge and technology influences individuals and society. Better understanding of science and technology is essential to know the unique attributes of each enterprise, then addressing their implications for society.
• Society is the sum total of our interactions as humans, including the interactions that we engage in to understand the nature of things and to create things. It is also defined as a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political

  authority and dominant cultural expectations.
• Science, technology and society is important to the public because it helps address issues and problems that are of concern to the general population. Scientific and technological principles have been and continue to be applied to solve problems that people experience in their day-­to-­day aspects of living.
• A lot of our problems in modern society involve not only technology but also human values, social organization, environmental concerns, economic resources, political decisions, and a myriad of other factors. These things sits at the interface between the three fields and can also be solved (if they can be solved at all) by the application of scientific knowledge, technical expertise, social understanding, and humane compassion.