GE07 Assignment # 9

Name: Toledo, Daniela Krisha M. Date:,April 25, 2023 Section: CEAT-01-601P

Subject: Science, Technology And Society Course: B.S. Architecture Professor: Prof. Ruby Cruz
Lesson 9 Digital cultures and Divide
Discuss the ff.
1. Technological dependency
Technological dependency is defined as a short or long-term reliance on machines and techniques to evaluate,
satisfy or resolve health problems. In nursing technological dependency has been explored in the context of
caring.

2. Politics and science

Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power
relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that
studies politics and government is referred to as political science.
The word Science comes from Latin word "scientia" meaning "knowledge" and in the broadest sense it is any
systematic knowledge-base or prescriptive practice capable of resulting in prediction. Science can also be
understood as a highly skilled technique or practice.
In more contemporary terms, science is a system of acquiring knowledge based on the scientific process or
method in order to organize a body of knowledge gained through research.
Science is a continuing effort to discover and increase knowledge through research. Scientists make
observations, record measureable data related to their observations, and analyze the information at hand to
construct theoretical explanations of the phenomenon involved.

3. Societal inequality
Social inequality is the condition of unequal access to the benefits of belonging to any society. In a purely equal
society, every citizen is equally able to contribute to the overall wellbeing of that society, and they are equally
able to benefit from their membership within that society.
Modes of Social Inequality
Direct Social Inequality occurs when unfair treatment of a group (or groups) is deliberate and can be present in
both community or government capacities. Direct inequality is a purposeful act that takes away resources,
opportunities and/or rights from some and not others. Examples include:
● Governmental: Legislation mandating the segregation of schools and other public places along racial
lines
● Inter-Social: Business owners refusing to serve clients based on sexual orientation
Indirect Social Inequality occurs when unfair treatment of a group (or groups) is not the explicit purpose of a
policy or action, but still results in social inequality. Examples include:
● Governmental: Legislation that eliminates or limits early and mail-in voting and/or requires photo ID.
The stated purpose of these laws is to mitigate voter fraud but the consequence is that people who
often can’t vote in-person only on election day (students, the elderly, or those who can’t otherwise
afford to leave work or transport themselves to polling stations) are disadvantaged.
Inter-social: Purchasing clothing that was made in sweat shops. Sweat-shop laborers are overworked,
underpaid, and often work in unsafe working conditions, hindering their ability to contribute to and benefit from
society. So while buying clothing itself does not create social inequality, it supports conditions that do. Buying
food and produce that use harmful pesticides

4. Bioethics
Bioethics concerns itself with addressing ethical issues in healthcare, medicine, research, biotechnology, and
the environment. Typically these issues are addressed from many different disciplines. People contribute to
the bioethics discussion drawing on expertise and methods from the sciences, social sciences, and the
humanities. Professionals working in the field of bioethics include philosophers, scientists, health
administrators, lawyers, theologians, anthropologists, disability advocates, and social workers. People may
teach, do research, treat patients in the clinical setting or work to change laws or public policy. The issues of
bioethics are at the intersection between medicine, law, public policy, religion, and science. Each field
contributes important insights, resources and methodologies and efforts to think about or make changes to
practices and policies that raise ethical concerns are often strongest when they draw on resources across
disciplines. The Showcase submission formats include some commonly used formats to present
bioethics-related proposals or findings.

5. Individual legal and ethical rights

Individual legal act means a single act of law application, intended for a specific entity or a group of entities
characterised by specific features.
Right ethics are ethics that most important to human rights. According to the right ethics theory, human rights
is the ultimate appeal and it should be respected. Human rights are entirely different from legal rights.
A few examples of human rights are freedom of speech, freedom of expression and right to privacy.

6. National security and freedom of speech

National security, or national defence, is the security and defence of a sovereign state, including its citizens,
economy, and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of government. Originally conceived as protection
against military attack, national security is widely understood to include also non-military dimensions, including
the security from terrorism, minimization of crime, economic security, energy security, environmental security,
food security, and cyber-security. Similarly, national security risks include, in addition to the actions of other
nation states, action by violent non-state actors, by narcotic cartels, and by multinational corporations, and also
the effects of natural disasters.
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their
opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. The right to freedom of expression
has been recognised as a human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human
rights law by the United Nations. Many countries have constitutional law that protects free speech. Terms like
free speech, freedom of speech, and freedom of expression are used interchangeably in political discourse.
However, in a legal sense, the freedom of expression includes any activity of seeking, receiving, and imparting
information or ideas, regardless of the medium used.