Chapter 5: Technology and Science Flashcards
Social Organization and Convenience
the way we often set up our lives around a particular way of doing things so that it becomes difficult to do things any other way.
Phenomenology
the manner in which we experience the phenomena of everyday life, and one of the central experiences that phenomenologists have emphasized as routinization.
Technology shapes culture and culture also shapes technology.
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Naturalistic fallacy
the claim that because something is a certain way in the world it ought to be that way — that what is real is what is good, and what is good is what is real.
Black box
the end results of science may seem logically defined from the outset but actually compile over time as a result of many debates where one idea won the day over another.