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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...

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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




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· 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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