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This document provides an orientation for a course on Science, Technology, and Society. It introduces the instructor, Heide J. Sanchez, and outlines the course mission, vision, and topics to be covered. The course will examine the historical development of science and technology, their impact on society and human conditions, and specific contemporary issues. It will take an interdisciplinary approach, applying history, philosophy, and sociology to bridge the gap between science and the humanities. The importance of studying Science, Technology, and Society is that it allows for a critical analysis of emerging technologies and their ethical implications.

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Introduction To Ssci 112 PDF

This document provides an orientation for a course on Science, Technology, and Society. It introduces the instructor, Heide J. Sanchez, and outlines the course mission, vision, and topics to be covered. The course will examine the historical development of science and technology, their impact on society and human conditions, and specific contemporary issues. It will take an interdisciplinary approach, applying history, philosophy, and sociology to bridge the gap between science and the humanities. The importance of studying Science, Technology, and Society is that it allows for a critical analysis of emerging technologies and their ethical implications.

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HEIDE J.

SANCHEZ
Instructor
WELCOM
E!!

Class
NSCI 112

HEIDE J. SANCHEZ
Instructor
SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOG
Y&
SOCIETY
COURSE
ORIENTATION
MISSION
VISION
MISSION
- To provide quality Aviation
Education and to assist our
graduates in the labor market
VISION
- To become the center of
Excellence in Aviation Education
COURSE
OUTLINE

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GENERAL CONCEPTS and
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS
Introduction to Science Technology and
Society

Historical Antecedents of Science and


Technology

Intellectual Revolutions and Society

Science and Technology and Nation


Building
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SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, and
SOCIETY and the HUMAN
CONDITION
Technology as a Way of Revealing
Human Flourishing in Progress and De –
development
The Good Life
When Technology and Humanity Cross
Why the Future Does Not Need Us

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SPECIFIC ISSUES in SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY, and SOCIETY
Information Age
Biodiversity and a Healthy Society
Genetically Modified Organisms
(GMOs) and Gene Therapy
Nanotechnology
Climate Change and Environmental
Awareness
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INTRODUCTION to
SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY and
SOCIETY
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SCIENCE
- Latin word scientia meaning
“knowledge”. It refers to a systematic and
methodical activity of building and
organizing knowledge about how the
universe behaves through observation,
experimentation or both.
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John Heilbron
- American science historian
“ Modern science is a discovery as well
as an invention.”
- considered science as a discovery of
regularity in nature, enough for natural
phenomena to be described by principles
and laws.
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John Heilbron
- science required invention to devise
techniques, abstractions, apparatus, and
organizations to describe these natural
regularities and their law – like
descriptions.

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TECHNOLOGY
- application of scientific knowledge,
laws and principles to produce services,
materials, tools and machines aimed at
solving real – world problems.
- root word teche, meaning art, skill, or
cunning of hand.

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Nowadays, advancements in science and
technology have become pervasive. They are
manifested in the activities that humans pursue
and the tools they use every day. The beauty of
this is that an advancement builds upon itself.

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As such, humans today live more
productive and more exciting lives than their
predecessors. With the way things go, it
could be expected that this generation’s
children, and the children of their children
have the chance to lead even better lives than
this generation already does.

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CHALLENGES and
DRAWBACKS of
HUMANITY in SCIENTIFIC
& TECHNOLOGICAL
PROGRESS

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Introduction of machines w/c
tremendously cut the need for
human workforce which gave rise to
questions about whether machines
will eventually replace humans

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The invention of drugs that cured
the previously incurable diseases which
introduced new strains of bacteria and
viruses that are resistant to the very same
drugs that once fought them.
Example: Gonorrhea (with antibiotic
resistant)

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The rise of social media drastically
changed the way humans communicate,
interact and share information.
This tends to put people’s privacy at risk
- the reason why there is an
emergence of cyber libel crime
- emergence of “fake news”

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“We live in a society absolutely dependent on
science & technology and yet have cleverly
arranged things so that almost no one
understand science & technology. That’s a clear
prescription for disasters.”
IMPORTANCE of STS
and HOW IT
EVOLVES.

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STS arise from interconnections of
independent and older disciplines such
as:
History of Science
Philosophy of Science
Sociology of Science
It’s root from the interwar period and
start of the COLD WAR.
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STS applies methods drawn from
history, philosophy and sociology to
study the nature of science and
technology and value & places in society.

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STS seeks to bridge the gap between 2
traditionally exclusive cultures:
Humanities (interpretative) and
Natural Sciences (rational)
- so that humans will be able to better
confront the moral, ethical and existential
dilemmas brought by the continued
developments in science & technology.
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Today’s approach in critiquing these
emerging science & technologies issues may be
influenced by how scientists and non-scientists
evaluated the positive and negative implications
of the different issues. For these reasons, one can
draw critical judgements of the ethical & moral
values of these innovations in science &
technology.
Thank you!

Heide J. Sanchez

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