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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
Sagarkumar Chavda
Department of Physics, Saurashtra University, Rajkot, 360005, India
sagar.skc@gmail.com
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ISBN 978-93-5067-857-2 PG STUDENTS
this era. Medieval & modern history helps us. The impact of science and
(300 AD - Present): During the middle technology can be seriously
age innovations such as silk, the horse recognized.
collar and horseshoes in the first few
hundred years after the fall of the Science and technology has greatly
Roman Empire. Industrial Revolution contributed in practice to the vision of
of 18th century was a period of great man over himself. Science has changed
technological discovery, particularly in the opinion about the origin of man
the areas of agriculture, manufacturing, and place of origin as well. Through
mining, metallurgy and transport, the results of scientific discoveries, the
driven by the discovery of steam perception of people about his
power. Such innovations like the behavior and his place of origin was
electric motor, light, advancements in diversely changed. Experiments in
medicine, chemistry, physics and science today are in one way or
engineering. another to the detriment of society.
Take for Example of the attempt to
SOCIETY clone a human being. The experiment
has a lot of controversy, as the
A society, or a human society, is a company skeptical about them.
group of people related to each other
through persistent relations. Members As science and technology is linked
of a society may be from different to society is something that calls also
ethnic groups. Societies are social for government intervention. Science
groups that differ according to and technology issues are actually
subsistence strategies, the ways that discussed worldwide today. Progress in
humans use technology to provide this has led to produce the ability to
needs for them. integrate different types of physical
products.
Sociologists place societies in three
broad categories: Pre-Industrial COCLUSION
Society: Food production, which is
carried out through the use of human Thus, Science Technology and
and animal labor, is the main economic Society have strong Relationships
activity. Industrial societies: The between each other. Science is the
increased efficiency of production of mother of technology and both of them
the industrial revolution produced an are the reasons for the creation and
even greater surplus than before. Now development of the societies.
the surplus was not just agricultural
goods, but also manufactured goods. REFERENCES
Post-industrial societies: Societies
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industry we have today. Society needs
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