All S.Qs of Science, Technology and Society for the book Science of Global Challenges. We have gathered all S.Qs for BS/MSc Physics.
Q.1 Define Science, Technology and Society.
Answer:
Science is defined as the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of natural phenomena.
Technology is the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life. Society is an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
Q.2 How does science, technology and society intersects?
Answer: The intersection between science, technology, and society is an academic discipline that studies how society and culture create science and how science affects society in return. Our lives and bodies are intertwined with science and technology. We depend on them to support how we live now and hope that new discoveries will improve our lives in the future. What can we do today, however, to bring about our ideal future? Science, Technology and Society seek to understand the challenges standing between the present we have and the future we want.
Q.3 What is STS?
Answer: Science, Technology and Society (STS) is an interdisciplinary field that studies the conditions under which the production, distribution and utilization of scientific knowledge and technological systems occur, and traces the consequences of these activities upon different groups of people. Science, technology and society (STS) focuses on the ways in which scientific, technological, and social factors interact to shape modern life.
Q.4 What general topics include in STS?
Answer: STS explore the effects of science and technology on society and culture, and vice versa. General topics include: the politics of socio-technical systems, analysis of scientific methodology in terms of objectivity and rationality, the social factors involved in producing scientific knowledge and technological change, moral and policy analysis of technological systems, more specifically, concepts of health, disease and disability, the political economy of pollution, the culture of the scientific laboratory, theories of race, eugenics and genetic engineering and social networking and the internet.
Q.5 What is the goal of STS?
Answer: The goal of the STS is to set up a forum to explore the relationship between what scientists and engineers do and the constraints, needs, and responses of society. Students of STS explore the powerful social, ethical and political relationships that drive research and innovation, asking:
- What factors determine the trajectories of scientific research and technological development?
- Which research and development pathways have the greatest positive impact with the least harm, and who decides which pathways are taken?
- What strategies will influence decision-making to realize the best possible outcomes?
Q.6 What is meant by Complex web of science, politics and social systems?
Answer: Complex web of science, politics and social systems is an approach for integrating the process of scientific investigation with political debate and social discourse in order to improve the science policy interface.
Q.7 What inventions were made during WW1?
Answer: Machine guns, Tanks, Chemical weapons, warplanes, submarines, Trench coats and Wristwatches are inventions that were made during WW1.
Q.8 What inventions were made during WW2?
Answer: There were many innovations during the war in the fields of medicine and technology that have drastically reshaped the world. Flu Vaccines, Penicillin, Jet Engines, Blood Plasma Transfusion, Electronic Computers and Radar are the few well-known examples.
Q.9 What is meant by Scientific funding?
Answer: Scientific funding is money which a government or organization provides for a particular scientific task, research purpose.
Q.10 What are the ethics in using technology?
Answer: Ethics in technology, simply put, refers to moral principles that govern how technologies should be used. These principles include accountability, digital rights, privacy, freedom, data protection and online behavior.
Q.11 What does ethical issues mean in technology?
Answer: Technology ethics is the application of ethical thinking to the practical concerns of technology. The reason technology ethics is growing in prominence is that new technologies give us more power to act, which means that we have to make choices we didn’t have to make before.
Q.12 What ethical issues are related to digital technological development?
Answer: There are some ethical issues that are closely connected to digital technology, such as trust, knowledge, privacy, and individual autonomy. These issues, however, take on a heightened concern when the technologies in question are financed through the profit-motive.
Q.13 What is meant by Human Experience?
Answer: Human Experience is the complete experience that a person has with a brand or services both digitally and physically. It represents the collective experiences that a person feels when dealing with any organization, be that as a customer, an employee, a patient or a citizen. Human Experience is driven by human centricity, the idea that people are much more than statistics or data. They are driven by the emotions, needs and relationships they experience with brands or services.
Q.14 How did science and technology influence modern warfare?
Answer: The impact of advances in technology on the conduct of warfare can be characterized into a number of dominant trends, namely, quest for extension of range of weapons, volume and accuracy of fire, system integration, concentration of maximum fire power in smaller units and increasing transparency in the battlefield.
Q.15 What is the role of science and technology in human society?
Answer: The essence of how science and technology contributes to society is the creation of new knowledge, and then utilization of that knowledge to boost the prosperity of human lives, and to solve the various issues facing society.
Q.16 What role did science and technologies play in WWII?
Answer: Radar, computers, penicillin, Jet Engines and more all came out of development during the Second World War. One of the most infamous World War II inventions is the atomic bomb.
Q.17 How did the new discoveries in science and technologies transform society?
Answer: The wide variety of technologies and science discoveries produced by humanity has led to the building and development of the civilizations of each age, stimulated economic growth, raised people’s standards of living, encouraged cultural development, and had a tremendous impact on religion, thought, and many other human activities. The impact of science and technology on modern society is broad and wide-ranging, influencing such areas as politics, diplomacy, defense, the economy, medicine, transportation, agriculture, social capital improvement, and many more. The fruits of science and technology fill every corner of our lives.
Q.18 What is the purpose of the human experience?
Answer: The idea behind the Human Experience is to create experiences that connect with people’s purpose, not with the idea of consumption or use. Furthermore, the concept of Human Experience encompasses not only people on the outside but also employees and partners who are part of the company.
Q.19 What is the study of human experience?
Answer: The humanities can be described as the study of human experience and the way in which people define and document their experience through philosophy, literature, religion, art, music, history, politics, and language.
Q.20 What is the ethical impact of using technology?
Answer: Technology moves at a pace that can easily outrun ethical standards surrounding its use. The effects of technology on work ethics move at a similar pace with employers moving to establish ethical boundaries that seem to infringe on employee privacy rights and restrict communication abilities.
