SOCI 235- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 65 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Science and technology interlink: technology is a practical side of natural science, is it, any social science technology, feedback mechanism economics and sts. Technology and rationality: max weber (1864-1920) - a typology of social action, value-rational action is based upon one"s emotions in a given situation. Example: traditional action is determined or motivated by habit and custom. Example: instrumental-rational action is behavior in which the means and ends of action are rationally related to each other. Instrumental rationality is not necessarily the most logical action; it is logical in a particular culture: weber used the term rationalization, 1. To talk about a bureaucracy (a social technology: 3. To talk about disenchantment/ secularization/ demystification of the world from mystery and magic. It is the social system that makes technology a tool of capital accumulation and exploitation; it could be otherwise. In 1913, ford introduced his most revolutionary idea: the assembly line production.
