SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY – Science has been shaped and reshaped

is an interdisciplinary field of study that over the years. Different civilizations played
seeks to explore and understand the many their important role in the development of
ways that science and technology shape various fields of science. Science which was
present-day culture, values and institutions then in primitive from made their lives
and in turn how modern will values, shape, comfortable.
science and society.
OLD STONE AGE PRIMATIVE
THREE PRINCIPAL AREAS:
- Humans used primitive stone tools
1. HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND - Began working with metal and
TECHNOLOGY making tools and weapons from
2. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND bronze
TECHNOLOGY - Humans were hunter gatherers and
3. SOCIAL SCIENCE APPROACHES had to catch or find everything they
TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ate.
- They lived in NOMADIC LIFESTYLE
SCIENCE – is that branch of study which
moving from place to place in search
facts are absorbed and classified and
of food
usually quantitative laws are formulated
- Man started using hides and slowly
and verified involves the application of
learned stitching of clothes
mathematical reasoning and data analysis
- Fire was discovered accidentally and
to natural phenomena.
he started taking cooked food this is
PHENOMENA – a fact, event or occurrence was the basis for chemical science
that can be observed with the senses
THE IRON AGE
TECHNOLOGY – from the Greek word
- Technical, paitical and economic
“TEKNOLOGIA” meaning a systematic
factors brought transformation of
treatment. It is use from scientific
civilizations
knowledge to develop and produce goods
- Man learned to cultivate to the soil in
and services Useful to man. It is sometimes
areas of Asia, North Africa, and
called “APPLIED SCIENCE”
Europe
SOCIETY- derived from the Latin word - Improves tools and machines
“SOCIUS” meaning companionship or - The Greek assembled and develop
friendship. Is a group of individuals sharing tools
the same geographical territory, united by
THE GREEKS
certain relations or made of behavior and
expected to abide by some laws - They esteemed most mathematics
especially geometry
PRIMARY COMPONENTS OF SOCIETY;
- Technical development brought
1. CULTURE- social behaviors, about the bronze age
institutions, norms and lifestyle - Architecture advance to level of
2. SOCIAL CULTURE- refers to the citizens profession
patterned arrangements of social
relationships, institutions and norms
that shape and guide human behavior
with a society THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
3. SOCIOLOGY- the study of the
development, structure and
functioning of human society
4. AUGUST COMTE- the father of
sociology
HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
It was the period of scientific and founded on human nature and experience
technological development in the 18th alone.
century that transformed largely rural
-Reject the idea or belief in a
agrarian societies into industrialized urban
supernatural being such as god this
ones especially in Europe and north
means that humanist class
America goods were produced in mass
themselves as AGNOTIC OR
quantities by machines in factories through
ATHEIST
the introduction of new techniques and
machineries THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION It is a body of techniques for;
It was the emergence of modern science - investigating phenomena
during the early modern period when - acquiring new knowledge or
develop in mathematics, physics, correcting and integrating previous
astronomy, biology (including human knowledge
anatomy) and chemistry transformed
societal views about nature. It is the series STEPS IN SCIENTIFIC METHOD
of rapid scientific advancements that 1. ask question
occurred in western Europe. 2. perform research
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION STARTED 3. establish your hypothesis
FOR SEVERAL REASON: 4. test your hypothesis by
experimentation
1. The rise of EMPRICISM AND 5. make an observation
HUMANISM 6. analyze the results and draws a
2. More inventions that help scientist conclusion
3. The discovery of the new world 7. present your findings
(NORTH AMERICA AND SOUTH
AMERICA) DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY IN THE PHILIPPINES
NOTE; old world consists of EUROPE,
ASIA AND AFRICA PRE COLONIAL PERIOD

SOME FAMOUS PERSONALITIES Before the Spanish colonialism in the

INVOLVED IN THE SCIENTIFIC Philippines science and technology
REVOLUTION already boosted including;

- Newton and Galileo were AGRICULTURE- farming, raising

foundation of modern physics animals, using plants and herbs as
- Galileo discovered properties of medicine
acceleration, deceleration and inertia TECHNOLOGY- handicrafts, pottery,
- Newton discovered the concept of weaving and tools used for planting,
gravity hunting, cooking, fishing and fighting
- Astronomers Copernicus and tribal conflicts
Galileo discovered that the earth
revolves around the sun ENGINEERING- the Banaue rice
terraces a sophisticated product of
EMPIRICISM- a theory starting that engineering by pre Spanish natives
knowledge comes only, primarily , from
sensory experience. It emphasizes SHIPBUILDING- geometric thinking and
evidence especially through mastery of convexity, concavity and
experimentation and by the use of scientific proportion on breadth and length to
method ensure sailing efficiency

HUMANISM- an approach to life based on They used indigenous technology in

reason and our common humanity building houses, irrigations,
recognizing that moral values are properly transportation both on land and
waterways
 SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD
Colonization of the Philippines
contributed to the growth of science and
technology to the archipelago
- the Spanish introduced formal
education and founded scientific
institutions
- sanitation and more advanced
methods of agriculture were taught
to the natives
- parish schools were established
where religion reading, writing,
arithmetic and music were later the
Spanish built and established
colleges and universities in 1611
the university of santo Tomas
was established, it is the oldest
university in Asia
- the study of medicine was given
priority especially in the later years
- the Spanish also contributed to the
field of engineering by constructing
government buildings, churches,
roads, bridges and forts
- the galleon trade accounted for the
Philippine colonial economy due to
the prospects of big profits
AMERICAN PERIOD AND POST
COMMONWEALTH ERA
The progress of science and technology in
the Philippines continued under the
American rule
- the American introduced public
school system of education
- science under the American period
was inclined towards agriculture,
food processing, medicine and
pharmacy
- government institutions were
established
 bureau of government
laboratories
 national research council of
the Philippine
 national science development
board