STS EXAM MULTIPLE CHOICE Questions and Answers 2024/2025
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STS
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STS
Culture is shaped by the work of
Tradition
Especially in the progress of change, values in culture may be characterized at a given time as
o Emergent
o Residual
o Dominant
What process is "ordinary" and "connects the elements of everyday life, whethere symbolic,
structural, material...
STS EXAM MULTIPLE CHOICE Questions
and Answers 2024/2025
· Culture is shaped by the work of
Tradition
Especially in the progress of change, values in culture may be characterized at a given time as
o Emergent
o Residual
o Dominant
What process is "ordinary" and "connects the elements of everyday life, whethere symbolic,
structural, material, or effective"?
o Culture
· The received view of culture and technology articulates
o How culture is organized to promote particular values, feelings, beliefs, affects, and
practices involving technology at the expense of others
o Why you do what you in relationship with technology
o Why you believe what you do about technology
· The naming of the various "ages" of human development - Stone Age, Iron Age, Industrial
Age, etc—suggest that
o Formal education is short sighted in narrowing down human development to the
dominant technology of the time
· The received view of culture and technology is ultimately a story, a story that can be told
differently
o True
· What are the two essential components of the "progress story"
o Evolution
o Sublime
· No matter how "progress" is defined, it is ultimately inevitable
o False
· How has the "progress story" been used (at least in the United States)?
o To control population
o To promote a version of "a better life"
o To judge others
o To sell things
· "the good life" is broadly characterized by
o Material and moral betterment
· Upon its "discovery" ( or shortly therafter), America was understood - at least philosophically
- by Europeans as
o A new Eden, untouched by problems of vastly expanding urban life
o A "clean state" for civilization, which had seen so much turmoil and violence
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