STS Exam Questions with Correct
Solutions
· Culture is shaped by the work of - Answer-Tradition
Especially in the progress of change, values in culture may be characterized at a given time as - Answer-
o Emergent
o Residual
o Dominant
What process is "ordinary" and "connects the elements of everyday life, whethere symbolic, structural,
material, or effective"? - Answer-o Culture
· The received view of culture and technology articulates - Answer-o How culture is organized to
promote particular values, feelings, beliefs, affects, and practices involving technology at the expense of
others
o Why you do what you in relationship with technology
o Why you believe what you do about technology
, · The naming of the various "ages" of human development - Stone Age, Iron Age, Industrial Age, etc—
suggest that - Answer-o Formal education is short sighted in narrowing down human development to
the dominant technology of the time
· The received view of culture and technology is ultimately a story, a story that can be told differently -
Answer-o True
· What are the two essential components of the "progress story" - Answer-o Evolution
o Sublime
· No matter how "progress" is defined, it is ultimately inevitable - Answer-o False
· How has the "progress story" been used (at least in the United States)? - Answer-o To control
population
o To promote a version of "a better life"
o To judge others
o To sell things
· "the good life" is broadly characterized by - Answer-o Material and moral betterment
· Upon its "discovery" ( or shortly therafter), America was understood - at least philosophically - by
Europeans as - Answer-o A new Eden, untouched by problems of vastly expanding urban life
o A "clean state" for civilization, which had seen so much turmoil and violence
· Assumptions linking technological development to "the good life"—like all assumptions - are powerful
and dangerous because assumptions re not explicitly expressed and therefore often go unchallenged -
Answer-o Powerful and dangerous
o Assumptions are not explicitly expressed and therefore often go unchallenged
Solutions
· Culture is shaped by the work of - Answer-Tradition
Especially in the progress of change, values in culture may be characterized at a given time as - Answer-
o Emergent
o Residual
o Dominant
What process is "ordinary" and "connects the elements of everyday life, whethere symbolic, structural,
material, or effective"? - Answer-o Culture
· The received view of culture and technology articulates - Answer-o How culture is organized to
promote particular values, feelings, beliefs, affects, and practices involving technology at the expense of
others
o Why you do what you in relationship with technology
o Why you believe what you do about technology
, · The naming of the various "ages" of human development - Stone Age, Iron Age, Industrial Age, etc—
suggest that - Answer-o Formal education is short sighted in narrowing down human development to
the dominant technology of the time
· The received view of culture and technology is ultimately a story, a story that can be told differently -
Answer-o True
· What are the two essential components of the "progress story" - Answer-o Evolution
o Sublime
· No matter how "progress" is defined, it is ultimately inevitable - Answer-o False
· How has the "progress story" been used (at least in the United States)? - Answer-o To control
population
o To promote a version of "a better life"
o To judge others
o To sell things
· "the good life" is broadly characterized by - Answer-o Material and moral betterment
· Upon its "discovery" ( or shortly therafter), America was understood - at least philosophically - by
Europeans as - Answer-o A new Eden, untouched by problems of vastly expanding urban life
o A "clean state" for civilization, which had seen so much turmoil and violence
· Assumptions linking technological development to "the good life"—like all assumptions - are powerful
and dangerous because assumptions re not explicitly expressed and therefore often go unchallenged -
Answer-o Powerful and dangerous
o Assumptions are not explicitly expressed and therefore often go unchallenged
