SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: French Revolution, Social Control, New Social Movements
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Chapter 13 technology, environment, and social movements. Technology double meaning: tools (items used to accomplish tasks, skills and procedures to make/use those tools. Artificial means to extend human capabilities: the application of scientific principles to the improvement of human life . Risk society a society where technology distributes environmental dangers among all categories of the population. Technological determinism the belief that technology is the main factor shaping human history. Then: hiroshima atomic bomb (1945, chernobyl nuclear disaster (1986, exxon valdez oil spill (1989, union carbide gas leak in bhopal (1984) Environmental racism more powerful countries, companies and groups transfer environmental risks and costs to disadvantaged groups. Perrow coined the term normal accidents an inevitable part of modern technology. Development of the car/automobile: complex effects on society. E. g. , suburbanization: people were able to leave the city. Transportation to date, romantic cruises, sex in the car. Driving doesn"t take strength, just skill, so women could drive.
