SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Genetically Modified Crops, Ulrich Beck, Genetic Pollution
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Period before hiroshima known as one of na ve optimism technology could do. 2) benefits of technology many people are beginning to think of technology in terms of skepticism. Post-war years, a growing number of citizens came to have doubts about the. Ul rich beck: coined term that stuck in the early 90s when he introduced the idea of a r isk society, r isk doesn"t just come from technological threats but from environmental ones as well. Technology: is traditionally defined as the application of scientific principles to. Normal accident: term recognizes that the very complexity of modern the improvement of human life. technologies ensures they will inevitably fail, though in unpredictable ways. among all social groups. Some categories are, however, more exposed than others. Risk society: is a society in which technology distributes danger and advantage. There are dangerous r isks of technological spin-offs: Ever since the industrial revolution humans have been burning many fossil fuels.
