Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Self-fulfilling prophecy 
B)  Technological somnambulism 
C)  Recipes of understanding 
D)  Alfred Schutz 
E)  Bruno Latour
F) G.E. Moore

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Under 4,000 
B)  About 10,000 
C)  About 30,000 
D)  Well over 100,000

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Self-fulfilling prophecy 
B)  Technological somnambulism 
C)  Recipes of understanding 
D)  Alfred Schutz 
E)  Bruno Latour
F) G.E. Moore

Question 4

The story of the National City Line demonstrates:

Accepted Answer

A)  the obvious superiority of buses to electric streetcars. 
B)  the limitations of streetcars for inter-urban transportation. 
C)  a reasonable corporate strategy to develop a market. 
D)  anti-trust violations that eliminated automobile competition

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

A)  hybrids between facts and science. 
B)  outwardly logically defined, but actually compiled over time as a result of many debates. 
C)  phenomenological recipes. 
D)  paradigm shifts.

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

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Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

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Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Why is routinzation of new behavior so hard to accomplish? 
B)  Without culture, would we know what to do with our technological means? 
C)  Why is the black box of technology so hard to crack open? 
D)  Why, even as technology negatively impacts society, are humans so complicit in this reconstitution?

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Road construction, maintenance, and repair 
B)  Emergency services responding to motor vehicle accidents 
C)  Military intervention in the Middle East 
D)  All of the above are hidden subsidies

Question 11

Phenomenology is best defined as:

Accepted Answer

A)  the manner in which we experience everyday life. 
B)  a chain reaction of simple events. 
C)  the finalizability of technological inevitability. 
D)  paradigm shifts.

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Technology and the science behind it are often presented to us as final, inevitable, unchangeable structures. 
B)  We do have control over technology even as it has control over us. 
C)  Human decisions are behind which technologies to build and scientific questions to ask, and which not. 
D)  All of the above.

Question 13

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Moore's naturalistic fallacy 
B)  Latour and Woolgar's "black box" 
C)  Joliot and Curie's "chain reaction" 
D)  Weber's "fabrication"

Question 14

According to the author:

Accepted Answer

A)  technology shapes culture. 
B)  culture shapes technology. 
C)  Both a and b. 
D)  Neither a nor b.

Question 15

What was Weber's view of science?

Accepted Answer

A)  It is then up to those who pick the fruits of science to decide what best to do with scientific knowledge-not scientists themselves. 
B)  Science shouldn't be polluted with culture, values, interests, and ambitions. 
C)  The point of science was to measure the world and to refine our methods of thinking. 
D)  All of the above.

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Self-fulfilling prophecy 
B)  Technological somnambulism 
C)  Recipes of understanding 
D)  Alfred Schutz 
E)  Bruno Latour
F) G.E. Moore

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Self-fulfilling prophecy 
B)  Technological somnambulism 
C)  Recipes of understanding 
D)  Alfred Schutz 
E)  Bruno Latour
F) G.E. Moore

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

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Question 19

What did Foucault mean by the term power-knowledge?

Accepted Answer

A)  The structures of power shape both what we take to be knowledge and what knowledge we seek out. 
B)  Science and technology are situated outside of the hierarchies of human institutions. 
C)  Humans and technology act on the other. 
D)  All of the above.

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

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?