HPS202H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Technological Revolution, Technological Determinism, Media Culture
16 Apr 2019
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The theory that assumes that society"s technology determines the development of its social structure and cultural values. Society itself determines the development of its social structure and cultural values. The purposeful application of information in the design, production, and utilization of goods and services, and in the organization of human activities. The changes in manufacturing and transportation that began with fewer things being made by hand but instead made using machines in larger-scale factories (mechanization, large scale charismatic technologies) Social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society, involving the extensive re-organisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing. Phase in the development of modern industrial economies that preceded, and created conditions for, the establishment of fully industrial societies. Proto-industrialisation generally refers to the phase before industrialisation. Having multiple causes vs. having one cause.
