POL 507 Chapter 1-7: Week 2-1_CH 1.pdf

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 507
• Professor: Matthew Flisfeder

Document Summary

By examining technology as a material substance, the complex interplay of technology and society is disregarded. This tunnel vision limits our understanding of technology and does not allow for an examination of social change resulting from technology. This view has been largely discredited: technology as knowledge. In contrast to scientific technology, technological knowledge stems from human. Artifacts are defines as all objects that have been modified, modelled, or produced according to a set of humanly imposed attributes. ex. tools, weapons, ornaments, utensils, and buildings. Technological knowledge is therefore focused on the ability to create, utilize, or transform objects with the aim of facilitating certain activities or achieving certain goals (mcguinn, 1978). of the natural world. Scientific knowledge, in contrast, is abstract and consists of our understanding. This definition of technology can be limiting in two ways: First,it does not consider that the knowledge required to create, utilize,