STS FINAL UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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STS FINAL UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
what effect do metaphors have on the complex questions we're discussing? - Correct Answermetaphors further mystify the question at hand
how are world wars a combination of past fighting techniques and the future world? - Correct
Answer- bo...
STS FINAL UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
what effect do metaphors have on the complex questions we're discussing? - Correct Answer-
metaphors further mystify the question at hand
how are world wars a combination of past fighting techniques and the future world? - Correct
Answer- both horseback and machine guns were used
does Winner advocate for a more inclusive definition of progress? - Correct Answer- yes
who is to blame for the "outsourcing pineapples" issue? - Correct Answer- society
what is the most likely explanation for the Dunbar number being 150, but we connect to more
than 150 people on social media? - Correct Answer- we've sliced the 150 connections into
smaller and smaller pieces, or we have people cycling in and out of our lives
what are the 2 reasons philosophy of technology never got underway? - Correct Answer- (1)
we think the only way to make progress is by inventing new machines
(2) we think the human relationship w technology is too obvious to merit serious reflection
who coined the term "forms of life"? - Correct Answer- wittgenstein
who coined the term "modes of life"? - Correct Answer- karl marx
what are 3 technologies that created entirely new human behaviors? - Correct Answer- air
travel, space travel, and genetic engineering
what does Marx say will happen as we move toward a state of general wealth? - Correct
Answer- Marx argues that if people spent less time on "work", they could enrich their
individuality and become multidimensional
what does Marx's "modes of life" prove? - Correct Answer- that social changes are not just an
after-effect of technology
, how are we all "makers of the iPhone"? - Correct Answer- because the makers can't make
them without us. we signal to the makers when we want something, and we fund the makers.
is culture static or dynamic? and why? - Correct Answer- dynamic because it entails changing
relationships between what is old and what is being reconfigured
what is tradition? - Correct Answer- the meanings, values, artifacts, and practices that are
handed down to us
what is selection? - Correct Answer- the selecting, challenging, and arranging of these
artifacts and ideas in everyday life in the interaction with changing material circumstances
what is culture? - Correct Answer- the process whereby tradition is reconfigured in the
historical conditions of everyday life. culture is both the experiences we are born into and
how these are challenged or reinforced through our experiences of the world
what are the 3 categorical features of culture? - Correct Answer- dominant, residual, and
emergent
_____________________________ is an example of emergent culture, while
___________________ is an example of residual culture - Correct Answer- biotechnology,
the idea that the earth is flat
what does Williams call "culture as a whole way of life" - Correct Answer- the particular
formation of dominant, residual, and emergent cultures at any point in time
which 4 things influence the shape and direction of cultural change? - Correct Answer- 1)
individual changes of mind
2) the efforts of individuals and organizations to do things differently
3) structural changes in institutions
4) responses to changes in material circumstances
what is an informal definition of the received view? - Correct Answer- why what we believe
what we believe about technology, why we do what we do in relation to technology, how
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