SOCY 284 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Technoscience, August Dvorak, Path Dependence
25 Sep 2016
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Winner"s claims: technologies aren"t neutral, technologies can be political in two ways: It doesn"t matter what kind of society it is, it will always be the same authoritarian government (democratic, dictatorship etc. The internal social system of the bomb must be authoritarian; there is no other way. (winner 1980:131) Social order is independent from type of government. We can see technology is inherited because it is independent from any type of government (independent of the rules and political systems: problem: winner resorts to td in his second example. It is about the kind of relationship (consequences) the society has. When technological systems become more complex, it shapes society instead being shaped by society: examples: nuclear weapons, nuclear plants, high-frequency-trading technology. Technological determinism as theory of technology: technological development follows an internal, technical logic, evolutionary understanding of technological development, best technology wins . Why technology development is messy: society, science:
