Science, Technology, and Society: Key
Terms and Concepts
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, APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY - ANSWER✅The idea that the design and selection
of technologies should reflect the social, economic, cultural, and ecological conditions of
the society into which they are to be introduced.
AUTONOMOUS TECHNOLOGY - ANSWER✅The theory that technology has a life of
its own and develops independently of human control.
BACTERIA - ANSWER✅Single cell organisms and most prevalent form of life on
Earth.
BEHAVIOR SETTING - ANSWER✅The natural matter and technics, and their
configuration, that constitutes the material environment for human behavior and
sometimes influences it.
BIG SCIENCE - ANSWER✅A phrase used to point up the fact that since World War II,
scientific research has increasingly involved money, personnel, organization, and
equipment on a large scale.
BIG TECHNOLOGY - ANSWER✅A phrase that points up the fact that since about the
mid-nineteenth century, technological activity has increasingly involved money,
personnel, organization, and equipment on a large scale.
BIODEGRADABLE - ANSWER✅A property of molecules or chemicals that refers to
their usefulness as food because they can be metabolized by organisms.
BIODIVERSITY - ANSWER✅The collective richness and variety of all forms of life.
CHAIN-LINKED MODEL OF INNOVATION - ANSWER✅A model of the innovation
process that stresses the existence of diverse starting points for and multiple indirect
pathways with feedback loops to technological innovation.
CHARACTER OF EVERYDAY LIFE - ANSWER✅The general texture or fabric of
everyday existence that confronts and affects individuals living in a particular society
and is substantially influenced by scientific and technological innovations and activities.
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY - ANSWER✅Technology used to extend the
transmission of information between individuals and groups over both distance and
time.
CONSEQUENTIALIST ETHICAL THEORIES - ANSWER✅Ones in which the rightness
and wrongness of actions and policies hinge exclusively on their estimated
consequences.
Terms and Concepts
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, APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY - ANSWER✅The idea that the design and selection
of technologies should reflect the social, economic, cultural, and ecological conditions of
the society into which they are to be introduced.
AUTONOMOUS TECHNOLOGY - ANSWER✅The theory that technology has a life of
its own and develops independently of human control.
BACTERIA - ANSWER✅Single cell organisms and most prevalent form of life on
Earth.
BEHAVIOR SETTING - ANSWER✅The natural matter and technics, and their
configuration, that constitutes the material environment for human behavior and
sometimes influences it.
BIG SCIENCE - ANSWER✅A phrase used to point up the fact that since World War II,
scientific research has increasingly involved money, personnel, organization, and
equipment on a large scale.
BIG TECHNOLOGY - ANSWER✅A phrase that points up the fact that since about the
mid-nineteenth century, technological activity has increasingly involved money,
personnel, organization, and equipment on a large scale.
BIODEGRADABLE - ANSWER✅A property of molecules or chemicals that refers to
their usefulness as food because they can be metabolized by organisms.
BIODIVERSITY - ANSWER✅The collective richness and variety of all forms of life.
CHAIN-LINKED MODEL OF INNOVATION - ANSWER✅A model of the innovation
process that stresses the existence of diverse starting points for and multiple indirect
pathways with feedback loops to technological innovation.
CHARACTER OF EVERYDAY LIFE - ANSWER✅The general texture or fabric of
everyday existence that confronts and affects individuals living in a particular society
and is substantially influenced by scientific and technological innovations and activities.
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY - ANSWER✅Technology used to extend the
transmission of information between individuals and groups over both distance and
time.
CONSEQUENTIALIST ETHICAL THEORIES - ANSWER✅Ones in which the rightness
and wrongness of actions and policies hinge exclusively on their estimated
consequences.
