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What makes something social • Society is the result of people, and institutions, interacting with one another. It is a sort of epiphenomena of these individuals. • Society in turn shapes the people and institutions that form it. • Most people experience society as though it were an external force acting upon them. • The “effects” of society operate through the vague mechanism of social norms. Norms “tell” us what we should and should not do, what we should and should not think. But they are not rational – or rather, their rationality is not universal. • Norms produce the values that we use in interacting with others. They produce many of our core ideas – such as ideas of the place of class, the role gender, the meaning of race, the function of justice, the importance of objectivity, the criterion of truth, the significance of evidence, etc Technoscience is social •In the simplest sense, technoscience is the product of people, and people are social. But it is possible to claim som...

In the classical view of the relationship between science and technology, science leads the way by creating knowledge from nature and technology follows by applying this knowledge to the creation of new things. •In this class, we will investigate the complex interaction between science and technology and the social environments in which they are produced, and which they, in turn, produce. •We can call the sum total of scientific and technological activities technoscience. Definition (Technoscience) Technoscience is the combined total of scientific and technological ideas and activities in their social, political and economic realities Technoscience is political •There are formal and informal rules that dictate who can make decisions about how to proceed with technoscientific work. • Different political structures create different opportunities, at the national level, the level of institutions, and the level of individuals. • Individual knowledge workers (technoscientists), var...

Technological progressivism has its roots in the European Enlightenment (c. 1700–1800), when progress became a synonym for good and technology came to be seen as a fundamental tool in progressive projects. Good = Progress Progress = Technology • Technological progressivism assumes that technological change is inherently good and sees it as self-propagating, moving by the internal constraints of technology itself. • For example, we view new technologies as progressive and older ones as old fashioned and use this as a reason for changing technologies. • We advocate the adoption of new technologies with little reflection on their social impact or the broader question of whether or not we want those impacts

Classical view of science and technology •A typical, naive view of science might be as follows: •Science is a formal activity that creates knowledge by direct interaction with nature. •Science has some kind of special method that allows different scientists to produce the same kind of knowledge whatever their social and political context might be. •Scientists perform the same experiments in the same way, and agree upon and reject the same hypotheses. •Scientists come to consensus on the truths of the natural world. •We have a sort of black box: . Nature Science Truth Scientism • Scientism goes back at least as far as the Scientific Revolution (c. 1550–1700) and originates in the claim that there is a sharp divide between “facts” and “values.” •According to this view, when we do science, we set aside values and study only facts. •The authority of science rests on its claim to be “value free” and hence “objective.” •Scientism promotes the idea that all of society’s problems can be sol...

The importance of First Aid is hard to overestimate. The largest benefits of First Aid are: It allows those trained with the potentially life saving ability to assist an injured or ill person during a variety of emergency situations. First aid helps ensure that the right methods of administering medical assistance are provided. Knowing how to help a person is just as important in emergency situations. It only takes six minutes for the human brain to expire due to lack of oxygen. First aid is emergency care given immediately to an injured person. The purpose of first aid is to minimize injury and future disability. In serious cases, first aid may be necessary to keep the victim alive. For Bleeding you need to expose the injured so that you can see if the wound is big or minor then you need to put some pressure and to control the bleeding. you need to have some equipment to cleanse the injured part and put some dressing to control the bleeding, while dealing ...

TRAIN Law -  Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion The Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Act, officially cited as Republic Act No. 10963, is the initial package of the Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP) signed into law by President Rodrigo Duterte on December 19, 2017. TRAIN consists of revisions to the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997, or the Tax Code. This reform includes packages that make changes in taxation concerning the personal income tax (PIT), estate tax, donor's tax, value added tax (VAT), documentary stamp tax (DST) and the excise tax of petroleum products, automobiles, sweetened beverages, cosmetic procedures, coal, mining and tobacco. The Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) is the first package of the comprehensive tax reform program (CTRP) envisioned by President Duterte’s administration, which seeks to to correct a number of deficiencies in the tax system to make it simpler, fairer,...

SENSATION  activation of receptors located in the eyes, ears, skin, nasal cavities, and tongue PERCEPTION the interpretation and organization of sensation SENSATION AND PERCEPTION Sensory receptors: specialized forms of neurons that are activated by different stimuli such as light and sound “Just noticeable difference”: the point at which a stimulus is detectable half the time it is present IGNORING SENSATIONS Habituation: ignoring a constant stimulus Sensory adaptation: sensory neurons stop responding to constant stimuli TWO TYPES OF PROCESSING INFORMATION Top-down processing: knowledge organizes individual features into a unified whole Bottom-up processing: analysis of smaller feature builds up to a complete perception LIGHT Light: a form of electromagnetic radiation described by wavelength and amplitude Color: determined by the length of the light  waves. Brightness: determined by the ampli...