POL 507 Midterm: POL507

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Independent variable effect (outcome) that does not change. What is the external factors that lead to the creation of technology and what is the results of that technology: does not tell us where it comes from, who created it, who owns it. Power is not monopolized (where only one group or individual) controls it. Power to: form of empowering d the power to achieve something) Power over: disempowering which is forces beyond us that can constraint us from doing something we want to or making us do something we do not want to. Technology influences the direction of society after developed (roads and cars changed the public transportation system and geography) Artifacts (describes something physicallism) or mechanism(cid:523) in which how it"s used(cid:524) Every society was a technological society in some way. Inventions (fire, languages, innovations) that affected society or a moment in time. Attitude (belief that it can solve problems and make life better)