Chapter 5: Technology and Science

Question 1

Social Organization and Convenience

Answer 1

the way we often set up our lives around a particular way of doing things so that it becomes difficult to do things any other way.

Question 2

Phenomenology

Answer 2

the manner in which we experience the phenomena of everyday life, and one of the central experiences that phenomenologists have emphasized as routinization.

Question 3

Technology shapes culture and culture also shapes technology.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Naturalistic fallacy

Answer 4

the claim that because something is a certain way in the world it ought to be that way — that what is real is what is good, and what is good is what is real.

Question 5

Black box

Answer 5

the end results of science may seem logically defined from the outset but actually compile over time as a result of many debates where one idea won the day over another.