SOC 3116 Lecture 1: SOC 3116 Lecture

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3116
• Professor: Stephan Larose

Document Summary

Technology, derived from the greek tekhne (art, craft, or skill), and logos (word, knowledge, science): artifact as well as knowledge of those artifacts. Society: a group of people sharing some common features such as political boundaries or citizenship, language, culture, ethnic back ground, religion, material accumulation, values etc. We live in a world of things that people have made. As human beings, we have relations to the things we have made. Both tech. and society are bound together so you shouldn"t study them as separate. These things are a vital aspect of the human condition entities. How it leads to: transformation of existing tech, changes in social organization, transformation of values, transformation of social relationships etc. Impact on farm life and villages: farmers were isolated from the city and without proper transportation it was hard to visit the city, example. Mail ordered catalogues stopped being the standard in which people shopped.