SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Normal Accidents, Risk Society, Mass Media
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Technology practical application of scientific principles to improve human life. It makes our lives easier (i. e. computers, laundry machines, etc. ) Technology is supposed to modernize and calculate the world to tame risks around us (i. e. child death rate) Risks arise from technology while helping us. There is a generalized fear and they are ambiguous. There can be an influence on technology from the military and government. Normal accidents accidents that occur inevitably through unpredictable complexity of technology (i. e. chemical plants melting down) There is an ugly element to technology. Mass media print, radio, tv, and other communication technologies that reach many people. Does not have face-to-face interaction but it instead mediate through technology. Protestant reformation personal relationship with the bible and press, many people learned to read so they could read the bible. Democratic movements rights and representative of government and this informed citizens.
