SOCY 284 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ho People, Intentionality, Langdon Winner

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 284
• Professor: Dr.Norma Möllers

Document Summary

Persistence of technological determinism as folk theory of technology and social change and displacement of accountability. Justificatory technological determinism: deployed by actors, use overly simplistic idea of technological determinism to advance their own goals, ex. Bosses laying off people, assuming that mechanizing will increase profits: treated as empirical phenomenon- not as folk theory but as rhetoric. Hard technological determinism if it held just tinder responsible for the spike. Soft te(cid:272)h(cid:374)ologi(cid:272)al deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)is(cid:373) as it does(cid:374)"t hold ti(cid:374)der as the sole (cid:272)ause of the spike i(cid:374) stds, it also references the need for better testing. Langdon winner technology and politics: te(cid:272)h(cid:374)ologies are(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eutral- some technologies do/can embody types of power. Can artifacts have politics: politics: forms of power and authority in human associations as well as the activities tat take place within those arrangements. Wi(cid:374)(cid:374)er"s (cid:448)ie(cid:449) of te(cid:272)h(cid:374)ology: use artifacts and technology interchangeably, large scale technologies have the most consequences- he is mostly concerned with them.