STS 1

• Science, Technology & Society (STS)


  An interdisciplinary field that studies the conditions under which the production, distribution and utilization of scientific knowledge and technological systems occur
• The relationship between technology and society


  Reciprocal (mutual / common / joint)
• Science


  Systematically organized body of knowledge about the physical and natural world that draws facts through observation and experimentation
• Technology


  The use or application of scientific knowledge for a specific goal or purpose
• Society


  People in general living together in organized communities with shared laws, traditions and values
• Characteristics of Science


  • Objectivity
  • Verifiability
  • Ethical neutrality
  • Systemic exploration
  • Reliability
  • Precision
  • Accuracy
  • Abstractness
  • Predictability
• Characteristics of Technology

  • Extending human capability
  • Technological and other outcomes
  • Socially embedded activity
  • Creative and critical thinking, functional and practical reasoning
  • Expect the unexpected
  • Different impacts
  • Disciplinary knowledge
  • Codified knowledge
  • Collaboration
• societas - individuals belonging to a particular group
• Techne - art, skill, cunning hand

  Logos - study of
• Scientia - knowledge
• During social upheavals 1960 and 1970
• Science - derived from practical knowledge of craftmanship
• Nature of science - can be thought of as the system of reasoning and

  communication that has, from the beginning provided our species with increasing control

  over its environment.
• technology - It is a material product, the results of a scientific investigation.
• Technology - is the use or application of scientific knowledge for a specific goal or purpose.
• Technology - defined as “purposeful intervention by design”.
• Technological outcomes - are designed to enhance the capabilities of people and expand human possibilities
• Society - “web of social relationship and networking between individuals”
• Objectivity - eans the ability to see and accept facts as they are, not

  as one might wish them to be
• Verifiability - Science rests upon sense, data gathered through our senses—eye, ear,

  nose, tongue and touch mean concrete factual observations.
• Ethnically neutrality - does not mean that the scientist has no values.
• Systemic exploration - organized plan or design of research for collecting and

  analysis of facts about the problem under study.