Chapter 5: Technology and Science Flashcards

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Social Organization and Convenience

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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.

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Phenomenology

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the manner in which we experience the phenomena of everyday life, and one of the central experiences that phenomenologists have emphasized as routinization.

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Technology shapes culture and culture also shapes technology.

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True

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Naturalistic fallacy

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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.

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Black box

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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.

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