Deck 6: Technology and Society

Question 1

Capitalist technologies have inevitably led to capitalist countries developing:

A) class equality.
B) a class system.
C) less class distinctions.
D) more blue-collar job opportunities.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

A greatly improved steam engine was devised by:

A) Emile Durkheim.
B) James Watt.
C) Max Weber.
D) Herbert Spencer.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio in:

A) 1876.
B) 1896.
C) 1885.
D) 1854.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Ultimately, advances in machine technology tend to:

A) increase cost.
B) increase prices.
C) reduce how much people can buy.
D) minimize new products.

Question 5

The QWERTY keyboard:

A) serves an important purpose for society today.
B) served an important purpose in the past and is still necessary today.
C) served an important purpose in the past and is unnecessary today.
D) Was invented accidentally.

Question 6

Interchangeability and mass production in an assembly line:

A) increased the price of a car in the 1920s.
B) in general increased the status and pay of skilled workers.
C) increased the cost of arms and ended all wars.
D) decreased the price of a car in the 1920s.

Question 7

The Industrial Revolution began in England about the year:

A) 1760.
B) 1865.
C) 1453.
D) 1066.

Question 8

Modern civilization as we know it could not have developed without:

A) its disinterest in science.
B) complacent attitudes.
C) its technological base.
D) lack of interest in economic development.

Question 9

What is meant by "outsourced"?

A) Terminating one's employment
B) Foreign businesses coming into the U.S. to employ American workers
C) Replacing U.S. high-wage workers with low-wage foreign workers
D) Looking outside of your company for sources of parts

Question 10

The production of uniform, substitutable parts is called:

A) acculturation.
B) diffusion.
C) standardization.
D) homemade uniqueness.

Question 11

Goods can become scarce:

A) in only one way.
B) only by being used up.
C) only by a lack of natural resources.
D) by government policies limiting use.

Question 12

Through the Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, China:

A) became a manufacturing powerhouse.
B) fell into ruin.
C) attempted to purge Western technologies from its culture.
D) became a technology leader.

Question 13

The supply of natural resources depends on:

A) only geographical factors.
B) economic planning more than technology.
C) social availability more than technology.
D) the type of technology we have.

Question 14

In 1876 Thomas Edison invented the:

A) elevator.
B) first camera.
C) first motorcar.
D) incandescent light bulb.

Question 15

A growing domestic market, plentiful raw materials, and scarcity of labor all favored American (U.S.):

A) inability to turn to machine technology.
B) lack of opportunities in mass production.
C) industrialization.
D) satisfaction with dependency on European industry.

Question 16

Technology also affects traditional societies in all of the following ways except:

A) making people worse off materially.
B) introducing large income inequalities.
C) increasing Westernization of culture.
D) new job creation.

Question 17

John Gorrie was a doctor who invented the:

A) air conditioner.
B) elevator.
C) motor car.
D) television.

Question 18

Today modern machine technology has created great numbers of jobs that require:

A) unskilled labor.
B) no specialized training.
C) routine manual labor.
D) specialized skills or knowledge

Question 19

Technological development has also created all of the problems below EXCEPT:

A) disruption of domestic life.
B) crowded town and cities.
C) health hazards (occupational).
D) the overall loss of employment opportunities.

Question 20

John Hall developed a method of precision machine production which made:

A) musket manufacture more difficult.
B) interchangeable parts possible.
C) each part different and unique.
D) fewer products available.

Question 21

England was one of the last countries in Europe to industrialize.

Question 22

Advances in machine technology progressively decrease total job opportunities and total employment.

Question 23

The Internet is speeding the process of the disintegration of world economies through regionalization.

Question 24

The earliest human-made wooden shelters have been dated about:

A) 6 million years ago.
B) 20,000 years ago.
C) 400,000 years ago.
D) 35,000 years ago.

Question 25

Musket manufacture was important in the development of the idea of interchangeability of parts.

Question 26

Precision machine production made mass production obsolete and too costly.

Question 27

The Napoleonic Wars helped the process of American industrialization.

Question 28

Geologists have been calling for a new "age"-the age of man-called:

A) the Industrial Age.
B) the Anthropocene Age.
C) the Millennial Age.
D) the Future Age.

Question 29

The development of robots has increased the number of routine jobs.

Question 30

John Gorrie was a doctor trying to help patients with malaria when he invented the first air conditioner.

Question 31

Potential technological developments in the future:

A) are limited only by the imagination.
B) will not prove unnecessary.
C) will not occur because we will all know all we need to.
D) will not occur because we will all fear to learn more.

Question 32

Technology has played a dominant role in shaping our modern world.

Question 33

Technology is the universe of tools, means, and methods through which we interact with our environment.

Question 34

Modern machine technology has eliminated great numbers of jobs that require specialized skill or knowledge.

Question 35

Futurists can help us reflect and think about:

A) what our futures will be with 100% certainty.
B) the implications of possible future changes.
C) the lack of importance of all past history.
D) how the present is unimportant.

Question 36

The Industrial Revolution involved the replacement of power-driven machines by hand tools.

Question 37

Technology can be both a solution and cause of social problems.

Question 38

Developments in industrial technology have diminished the importance of an individual's physical strength.

Question 39

The process of canning foods was initially motivated by a desire for increased military success.

Question 40

The gradual warming of the earth's temperature due to the burning of fossil fuels is called:

A) the ice age.
B) glaciation.
C) acclimatization.
D) global warming.

Question 41

Technological progress is often speeded up by organized pressure groups that have an interest in a particular technology.

Question 42

Technological progress occurs without reference to social conditions.

Question 43

Most scientists are now convinced that global warming is not taking place.

Question 44

The first six letters on the top of a keyboard spell QWERTY.

Question 45

According to economists, the primary reasons for rising gas prices was the increased demand by China and the war in Iraq.

Question 46

Are there sufficient resources for society to continue to grow? What three factors determine economic activities?

Question 47

Thanks to a U.N. climate summit in 2009, much of the world operates under a global treaty to attempt to slow down global warming.

Question 48

Why should we be concerned about the technology of the future? What social factors influence technological development?

Question 49

How is modern technology related to the need for skilled and unskilled workers? Do machines cause a decline in total employment?

Question 50

China attempted to kept Western technologies out until the conscious adaptation in the early 1900s.

Question 51

Potential technological developments in the future are limited only by the imagination.

Question 52

Technological discoveries and breakthroughs also have social and cultural consequences.

Question 53

How does technology influence social change? Why and how are class systems related to technology?

Question 54

What were the social and economic effects of standardization, interchangeability and mass production?

Question 55

Both the technology and economic activity of a society are entirely determined by the extent to which various natural resources are available.