Lesson 1 - Introduction to STS PDF

The course deals with interactions between science and technology and social, cultural, political, and economic contexts that shape and are shaped by them. (CMO No. 20, series of 2013). This interdisciplinary course engages students to confront the realities brought about by science and technology...

The course deals with interactions between science and technology and social, cultural, political, and economic contexts that shape and are shaped by them. (CMO No. 20, series of 2013). This interdisciplinary course engages students to confront the realities brought about by science and technology in society. Such realities pervade the personal, the public, and the global aspects of our living and are integral to human development. Scientific knowledge and technological development happen in the context of society with all its socio-political, cultural, economic, and philosophical underpinnings at play. This course seeks to instill reflective knowledge in the students that they are able to live the good life and display ethical decision making in the face of scientific and technological advancement. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 BEING LEAST CONFIDENT, 10 HAVING HIGH CONFIDENCE is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence. sciencecouncil.org ►Science involves more than the ► Science is an intellectual activity gaining of knowledge. It is the carried on by humans that is designed to systematic and organized inquiry into the discover information about the natural natural world and its phenomena. Science world in which humans live and to is about gaining a deeper and often discover the ways in which this useful understanding of the world. information can be organized into from the Multicultural History of Science page meaningful patterns. A primary aim of at Vanderbilt University. science is to collect facts (data). An ultimate purpose of science is to discern the order that exists between and amongst the various facts. Dr. Sheldon Gottlieb ► Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. Richard Feynman, Nobel-prize-winning physicist From: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/a/c/acp103/PSYCH105/whatisscience.htm  /tekˈnäləjē/ tekhnē Greek ‘art, craft’ tekhnologia Greek ‘systematic technology -logia treatment’ English Greek -logy English  ► The rational process of creating means to order and transform matter, energy, and information to realize certain valued ends. ► The set of means (tools, devices, systems, methods, procedures) created by the technological process. ► The knowledge that makes the technological process possible. It consists of the facts and procedures necessary to order and manipulate matter, energy, and information, as well as Technology can be defined five ways how to discover new means for such transformations. ► A subset of related technological objects and knowledge. ► The system consisting of the technological process, technological objects, technological knowledge, developers of technological objects, users of technological objects, and the worldview that has emerged from and drives the technological process. This is referred to as the technological system. Source: oregonstate.edu ◄ ► Note: Not arranged in the most chronological order A society is a group of people involved with each other through persistent relations, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. It may be illustrated as an economic, social, or industrial infrastructure, made up of a varied collection of individuals. Members of a society may be from different ethnic groups. The word society may also refer to an organized voluntary association of people for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes. Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/society.htm  Societies with limited or basic technology are at the mercy of the fluctuations of the environment while industrialized societies tend to have more control over the impact of their surroundings thus developing different cultural features. He is an American sociologist known for contributions to the - involves adding new elements such as sociology of religion, technologies, social practices, institutions, or beliefs to social inequality, and the system, and;. ecological- - the elimination of old elements in the evolutionary social system. theory.  rely on the domestication explosion of new of animals technology made farming possible Most dependent in the environment people to grow and cultivate plants societies contained a strict hierarchical system of power dramatic rise in based on the production of technological invention information and services