SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: When Disaster Strikes..., Genetic Pollution, Risk Society
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Technology practical application of scientific principles. Technology is not always beneficial (i. e. gas leaks) Normal accident accidents that occur inevitably though unpredictably because of the very complexity of modern technologies (i. e. computer crashing) Risk society society in which technology distributes environmental dangers among all categories of the population but to varying degrees. However, environmental threats are more stressful than technology accidents. People control technology as much as technology controls people. Nikoli kondratiev said that technology is invented in clusters. Technological determinisms belief that technology is the main factor shaping human history. People decide how they let technology effect society though. Technology requires lots of money and organization. Vast majority of technology is developed by many people not just. Era of big technology arrived after wwii. Military and businesses now govern direction of most research because they fund them. Two aspects of environmental degradation from technology. Global warming - gradual worldwide increase in average surface.
