STS EXAM MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS

STS EXAM MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS Culture is shaped by the work of - Tradition Especially in the progress of change, values in culture may be characterized at a given time as - o Emergent o Residual o Dominant What process is "ordinary" and "connects the elements of everyday life, whethere symbolic, structural, material, or effective"? - o Culture · The received view of culture and technology articulates - 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 - 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 - o True · What are the two essential components of the "progress story" - o Evolution 2© EMILY CHARLENE YEAR , ALL RIGHTS RESERVED o Sublime · No matter how "progress" is defined, it is ultimately inevitable - o False · How has the "progress story" been used (at least in the United States)? - 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 - o Material and moral betterment · Upon its "discovery" ( or shortly therafter), America was understood - at least philosophically - by Europeans as - 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 - o Powerful and dangerous o Assumptions are not explicitly expressed and therefore often go unchallenged · The two primary forms of the desire to overcome limits are - o Limits of time o Limits of space · _____ become needs by way of becoming _____ necessities - o Wa