STSC Final Exam Review 2023 with 100% correct answers

Standpoint Epistemology "What is true depends on where you are standing" An individual's own perspectives are shaped by their social and political experiences. Developed from feminist theory that women's perspective must be kept in mind. All of the science-making process involved perspectives of men -- female absence from knowledge systems Military Industrial Complex The relationship between the government entities involved in military affairs and the defense industry. Private industry fueling military. This is seen as a threat to science, as in a military industrial complex, the government contracts science institutions to further military research. "Pure" science is clouded by military science. Power of money to influence science OSRD in WWII Comes from Eisenhower farewell speech in 1961 Black Boxing When examining a concept or an event, a failure to look at a certain aspect of the event and instead accepting it as a passive tenet. EX: fire storm - calculating effects of atomic bomb without accounting for the fires. U.S. used cities to determine scope of its Cold War nuclear arsenal, but left out calculation of burn damage EX: examining only the survivors EX: Manhattan Project Hegemonic Power Power given to a dominant nation (hegemon) that influences social, political, and economic conditions of other countries. "Internalized norms" EX: Americans are "ok" with drone strike bc of US hegemonic power Gender norms EX: The US (along w USSR) was a hegemonic power after WWII. The US used its hegemonic power to use military industrialized complex to influence other countries Internalization of existing power norms performed by that power's subjects Teleology A purpose that a particular object is created for. A bomb is created to destroy Philosophical study of nature that describes things based on their apparent purpose