SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ford Model T, Slot Machine, Technological Determinism

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

Document Summary

Tech (the world of things in themselves) vs society (the world of human beings among themselves) > we live in a world of things that people have made. > as human beings, we have relations to the things we have made. > these things are a vital aspect of the human condition. > technology and society are bound together, to study them separate entities is misleading. How it leads to transformation of existing tech, changes in social organization, transformation of values, transformation of social relationships . > displacement of existing technology (e. g, horse drawn streetcar -> electric streetcar or ford model t) > impact on cities (before cars big cities were essentially webbed shaped (businesses were along the streetcar lines), but with the cars, people could work anywhere that was best) > techno. forces will determine social and cultural change. >two versions: strong and soft (techno push vs. market pull theory)