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    This document outlines the key contexts of science and technology including 5 dimensions: practitioner, technical, political-economic, cultural, and environmental. It also discusses the ideational, societal, material, and personality subsystems that shape these contexts. The scientific and industrial revolutions are provided as examples that had wide-ranging consequences by affecting different fields and inventing new technologies like oral contraceptives and snowmobiles.

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    This document outlines the key contexts of science and technology including 5 dimensions: practitioner, technical, political-economic, cultural, and environmental. It also discusses the ideational, societal, material, and personality subsystems that shape these contexts. The scientific and industrial revolutions are provided as examples that had wide-ranging consequences by affecting different fields and inventing new technologies like oral contraceptives and snowmobiles.

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    Contexts of Science and

    Technology: Lesson 4
    SIR. BUHN ALAY G. COLORADO
    Things to consider
    • Cause and effect
    • Socio-cultural
    • environmental system
    • Micro
    • Macro
    5 key dimensions of the context of science
    and technology
    1. Practitioner Dimension(civil, electric, mechanical, computer)
    2. Technical Dimension (transmission technology,
    3. Political-Economic Dimension(war, cold war, medicine)
    4. Culutral Dimension (
    5. Environmental Dimenstion
    Subsystem
    • Ideational = world view, core ideas, behavioral norms, attitude
    • Societal = institutions, groups, classes, roles, ritual, statuses
    • Material = Technologies, technic
    • Personality = behavior, type of personality
    Scientific Revolution
    • 17th Century Scientific Revolution - Theories
    • Industrial Revolution- Motor, hydraulic, turbines
    Consequence of scientific and technological
    development
    • Different fields are affected with each other, physics, astronomy,
    chemistry, biology etc.
    • Oral contraceptive
    • Industrial Revolution
    • Snowmobile

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