This course studies the social, cultural, and
institutional contexts of science and technology,
using the perspectives and methods derived
from the social sciences and the humanities.
It examines the assumptions about the
neutrality and autonomy of science and technology,
the distinction between the natural
and the artificial, the social construction of
knowledge, expertise and authority, and
the relationships between human values, science
and technology. The links among science,
technology and the organization of time
and space, as well as the changing conceptions
of the self are discussed as critical dimensions of
modernity and postmodernity
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