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Quiz Submissions Section 2: Practice Quiz for Review Purposes

Yan Liu (username: yl1424)

Attempt 2Written: Feb 20, 2014 9:56 PM Feb 20, 2014 10:40 PM

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A key position or argument of the social shaping perspective is

New technologies stand or fall on their own merits and thus technological advance is a relativelyautonomous process

The development and deployment of new technologies, in the long run, is not of primary benefit tosocial groups that have the most power in a society

Technological change must be analyzed in terms of social influences on the conception, design,implementation and consumption of technology

Both b. and c.

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Technological determinism may be thought of as

A view of technology which emphasizes its autonomy from the social

A view of technology in which technological change shapes social change in a more or less onewayrelationship

A view of technologically induced change as following an inevitable path

All of the above

None of the above


Social shaping approaches to the development of particular technologies suggest that

Social factors may influence the selection of particular technological development from availablepossibilities



Social factors may operate in indirect ways by creating economic or intellectual environments inwhich only certain paths of technological change can succeed

Social factors may shape the nature of technologies through the embodiment of social models intothe technology

All of the above


As argued by Volti, the evidence concerning the relationship between social organization and technologysuggests that

In a somewhat deterministic manner new technologies tend to lead to the adaptation of the form ofsocial organization that maximizes the efficiency of the technology.

In a manner akin to the social constructionist perspective the culture, goals and central interests ofan organization tend to influence the type of technology implemented and how the technology isimplemented

There is a complex reciprocal relationship between social organization and technological change

None of the above


Bias or valence, in terms of technology, refers to the idea

That people will always have a variety of biased viewpoints about the benefits and costs associatedwith each new technology

That some technologies are designed (intended or unintended) in such a way that inherent to thetechnology is a tendency for it to be used in such a way that it is understood as leading to negativeeffects or outcomes

That technologies will tend to emerge in a particular order such that some needs will be filled prior toother needs being filled

None of the above


The openness of a technology can be thought of in terms of

More open technologies, such as the computer, can be used for a wide range of purposes while lessopen technologies, such as a landmine, can only be used for a very narrow range of purposes



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More open technologies are those publicly accessible technologies such as cars and consumerproducts while less open technologies are exclusive to a particular group such as military technologyor specialized medical technology

Open technologies are technically transparent or simpler in that there is general understanding ofhow they work while less open technologies are opaque in that their technical functioning is beyondthe understanding of the general public

All of the above

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