STS01 - introduction to sts

• 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