Science, Technology, and Society

DAY 1
I. Expectation Check
1. Overview of the course
2. Historical Antecedents in the Course of Science and
Technology
2.1. Ancient Times
2.2. Medieval/Middle Ages
2.3. Modern Times
3. Intellectual Revolutions
3.1. Copernican Revolution
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3.2. Darwinian Revolution
3.3. Freudian Revolution
4. Science, Technology and Nation Building
5. Information Society
DAY 2
6. The Nano World
7. Genetically Modified Organisms
8. Gene Therapy
9. Climate Change
10. The Good Life
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11. Advocacy Project

II. Creative Presentation of the

Sociology-Anthropology faculty participants
 Science, Technology, and Society
As stated by CHED Memorandum Order No.20, STS
is an interdisciplinary course that engages the
students to confront the realities brought about by
science and technology in society, with all its
socio-political, cultural, economic, and philosopical
underpinnings at play.
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This course also seeks to instill reflective knowledge
in the students so that they are able to live the good
life and display ethical decision-making in both
social and scientific dilemmas.
 Science, Technology, and Society
This course discusses how science has influenced
human society and viceversa. It examines the
interaction between the human quest to understand
the natural world and how this understanding has
fashioned society and its development.
 Science, Technology, and Society
It is hoped that by the end of this course, YOU
will appreciate the contributions of science and
technology to the world in general, and the
Philippine society in particular; appraise the impact
of science and technology on YOUR personal
decision-making and on living the good life; and
make intelligent and ethical decisions that will affect
society for the good of humanity.
✔ Science
&Technology Learning Objectives
(S&T)
✔ Historical
❑ To define S&T,
antecedents ❑ To identify/enumerate
the different roles of
S&T, and
❑ To trace the history of
S&T in the world
(interaction of S&T and
society/antecedents)
 What is science?

Learning new facts

(discoveries)
Solving problems
(scientific method)

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 What is science?
Science as an idea

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What is science?
the intellectual and practical
activity encompassing the
systematic study of the
structure and behavior of the
physical and natural world
through observation and
experiment – Oxford dictionary

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 What is technology?
Creating/inventing things

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What is technology?
Things that fulfill our
needs and desires or
perform certain functions
Application of
understanding of natural
laws to the solution of
practical problems
Reflection:
What is the role of S&T in your life?
Reflection:
What is the role of S&T in your life?
SOCIOCULTURAL EVOLUTION
1.HUNTING and GATHERING Societies
-men use simple tools to hunt animals and women gather
vegetation
- the simplest of all societies and were the earliest type of
society on Earth;
- are nomadic
- have only few dozen members
- family-centered
- consider men and women roughly equal in social
importance
- Examples: Pygmies of Central Africa
Bushmen of Southwestern Africa
Semai of Malaysia
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2.HORTICULTURAL Societies
-believed to have started some 12,000 to 15,000 years
ago
- is the simplest type of farming based on growing
crops in gardens using hand tools such as the hoe or
digging stick
- No fertilizers, no pesticides, no animals used to
plow, no irrigation systems
- A major technique of horticulturalists is shifting
cultivation, sometimes called swidden cultivation or
the slash-and-burn method
o- Example: Yanomamo of Brazil
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2.PASTORAL Societies
-Relies on herding and domestication of animals for
food and clothing to satisfy the bulk of the group's
needs
- Here, animals raised provide milk, dung (for fuel),
sheared fur, and even blood (which was drunk as a
major source of protein in East Africa)
- Most of them are nomads who follow their herds in
a never-ending quest for pasture and water.
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3.AGRICULTURAL Societies
- developed 5,000 years ago as the use of plows harnessed
to animals or more powerful energy sources enabled
large-scale cultivation.
- Cities become common, but they generally contain only a
small proportion of the population
- Family loses significance as distinct religious, political
and economic systems emerge
- increased social inequality
- Examples: Medieval Europe, Egypt during construction
of the Great Pyramid
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4.INDUSTRIAL Societies
-Around the year 1750, people produced goods using
advanced sources of energy to drive large machinery.
- Cities contain most of the population; provides many
modern conveniences and advanced forms of
transportation and communication
- moves work from the home to the factory
- It requires an immense, mobile diversity specialized,
highly skilled, and well-coordinated labor force.
- Examples: Most societies today in Europe, North
America, Australia and Japan
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5.POSTINDUSTRIAL Societies
- Represent the most recent stage of technological
development namely, technology that supports an
information - based economy.
- shifts production from heavy machinery making
material things to computers and related technology
processing information.
- requires a population with information-based skills;