Exam 4: Technology and Science

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Robert K. Merton

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Question 21

What is the average number of traffic deaths each year in the U.S.?

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Question 22

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Langdon Winner

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Question 23

The story of the National City Line demonstrates:

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Question 24

Black box, a term proposed by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, understands science as:

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Question 25

What does the author mean by the "social organization of convenience?" Give an example and explain how it applies.?

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Question 26

Boundary work makes it clear whose knowledge bears authorityover the situation at hand.

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Question 27

Define and give an example of a broken technological "recipes of understanding.?

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Question 28

What is Langdon Winner posing in coining the term "technological somnambulism"?

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Question 29

According to the text, which of the following is a "hidden subsidy" for automobiles in the U.S.?

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Question 30

Phenomenology is best defined as:

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Question 31

Which of the following statements best elaborates on the key idea that "technology is not imperative"?

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Question 32

According to Steven Shapin, Teller, a scientist working on the Manhattan Project, viewed that "it was the scientist's job to discover the laws of nature, not to pronounce on whether the laws permitting nuclear fusion ought to be mobilized for the construction of a hydrogen bomb." What is this view an example of?

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Question 33

According to the author:

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Question 34

What was Weber's view of science?

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Question 35

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Alfred Schutz

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Question 36

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Naturalistic Fallacy

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Question 37

Explain three ways that cars contribute to the "erosion of social commitment" according to the author?

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Question 38

What did Foucault mean by the term power-knowledge?

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Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Robert K. Merton

What is the average number of traffic deaths each year in the U.S.?

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Langdon Winner

The story of the National City Line demonstrates:

Black box, a term proposed by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, understands science as:

What does the author mean by the "social organization of convenience?" Give an example and explain how it applies.?

Boundary work makes it clear whose knowledge bears authorityover the situation at hand.

Define and give an example of a broken technological "recipes of understanding.?

What is Langdon Winner posing in coining the term "technological somnambulism"?

According to the text, which of the following is a "hidden subsidy" for automobiles in the U.S.?

Phenomenology is best defined as:

Which of the following statements best elaborates on the key idea that "technology is not imperative"?

According to the author:

What was Weber's view of science?

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Alfred Schutz

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Naturalistic Fallacy

Explain three ways that cars contribute to the "erosion of social commitment" according to the author?

What did Foucault mean by the term power-knowledge?

Environmental Problems and Society

Consumption and Materialism

Money and Markets

Population and Development

Body and Justice

The Ideology of Environmental Domination

The Ideology of Environmental Concern

The Human Nature of Nature

The Rationality of Risk

Mobilizing the Ecological Society

Governing the Ecological Society

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