STS01 - introduction to sts

Cards (21)

  • science
    the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence.
  • science involves
    more than the gaining of knowledge
  • science
    the systematic and organized imquiry into the natural world and its phenomena
  • culture of doubt
    science
  • technology origin word
    tekhne + logia
  • tekhne define
    art, craft
  • tekhnologia
    systematic treatment
  • logy
    study
  • define technology in 5 ways
    1. the rational process of creating means to order and transform matter, energy, and information to realize certain valued ends.
    2. set of means (tools, devices, systems, methods, procedures) created by the technological process.
    3. knowledge that makes the technological process possible. contains the facts and procedures necessary to manipulate matter, energy, information.
    4. subset of related technological objects and knowledge.
    5. a system
  • society
    group of people involved with each other through
    persistent relations, or a large social grouping sharing the same
    geographical or social territory
  • society
    economic, social, or industrial infrastructure, made up of a varied collection of individuals.
  • society
    organized voluntary association of people for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
  • sociocultural change is of (2) types:
    1. innovation - adding new elements
    2. extinction - elimination of old elements in the system
  • types of society
    1. hunter-gatherer
    2. pastoral
    3. horticultural
    4. agricultural
    5. feudal
    6. industrial
    7. information
  • hunter-gatherer
    most dependent in the environment
  • pastoral
    rely on the demostication of animals
  • horticultural
    people to grow and cultivate plants
  • agricultural
    explosion of new technology made farming possible
  • feudal
    societies contained strict hierarchical system of power
  • industrial
    dramatic rise in technological invention
  • information
    based on the production of information and services