Deck 2: Society

Question 1

According to Turk,what criteria do children who play with computers that "talk" and "think" use for distinguishing things that are alive from things that are not?

A) Social criteria
B) Physical criteria
C) Material criteria
D) Psychological criteria

Answer 1

D
According to Turk,children who play with computers that appear to think use psychological rather than physical criteria to distinguish things that are alive from things that are not.

Question 2

A technology's ostensive intended purpose is termed its:

A) Focal function
B) Polypotent function
C) Latent function
D) Prime directive

Answer 2

A
Richard Sclove terms a technology's ostensive intended purpose its focal function.

Question 3

How many generating plants were in the United States by 1902?

A) 1
B) 4,000
C) 2,250
D) 4,001

Answer 3

C
After applying for licenses from the Edison Electric Light Company,approximately 2,250 plants were in the United States after there was only one in 1882.

Question 4

Who held that technological innovations establish a framework for public order?

A) Paul Loser
B) Langdon Winner
C) Bill Gates
D) Alfred Nobel

Question 5

Which government is committed to placing a computer in every classroom?

A) The U.S. government
B) The Swedish government
C) The UK government
D) The German government

Question 6

In the period between 1870 and 1920,what installations seemed to become more important than ports for transport in the new industrial economy?

A) Railroad stations
B) Electric power plants
C) Bus stations
D) Airports

Question 7

What does STS stand for?

A) Social Technology Society
B) Social Studies of Science and Technology
C) Study of Technological Shifts
D) Study of Social and Technological Shifts

Question 8

Who developed the concept of "delegation to non-humans"?

A) Foucault
B) Kuhn
C) Habermas
D) Latour

Question 9

What is a "brown good"?

A) One that is ethically suspect
B) One that is marketed to single men
C) One that is for leisure and entertainment
D) One that is designed to fail

Question 10

Who is most closely associated with the metaphor of the panopticon?

A) Foucault
B) Habermas
C) Dyer
D) Held

Question 11

Who wrote The Structure of Scientific Revolutions?

A) Marcuse
B) Young
C) Habermas
D) Kuhn

Question 12

Who developed the seven key "sites of power"?

A) Habermas
B) Held
C) Kuhn
D) Dyer

Question 13

In 1860,which of these port cities had at least 100,000 people?

A) Washington, D.C.
B) Philadelphia
C) Miami
D) Tampa Bay

Question 14

What technology did the village of Ibieca find came at the expense of community integration?

A) The telephone
B) Indoor plumbing
C) The Internet
D) The telegraph

Question 15

Who perfected an electric generator in 1831?

A) Nikola Tesla
B) Michael Faraday
C) Thomas Edison
D) Alexander Graham Bell

Question 16

Why does the "el cortito" hoe have a short handle?

A) For ease of use
B) To enable supervisors to tell who is working and who is not
C) For hoeing efficiency
D) As an accident of design

Question 17

Who distinguished between technical rationality and substantive rationality?

A) Marcuse
B) Giddens
C) Uffrey
D) Habermas

Question 18

Who wrote One Dimensional Man?

A) Marcuse
B) Vargas
C) Uffrey
D) Habermas

Question 19

Who argues that the revolution in information technology is creating a global economy?

A) Manuel Castells
B) Don Quixote
C) Manuel Vargas
D) Peter Giddens

Question 20

STS has its origins in the belief that:

A) Science is a force for evil
B) Science is a force for social disintegration
C) Technological innovation is amenable to sociological analysis
D) Technological innovation can only be controlled by political regulation