Technology Flashcards
The business model
New unit of analysis that explains how firms do business, how values are created and is used by businesses to create social values.
What are the 2 phenomenons of the business model?
1) The electronic business + the use of information with the help of technology
2) Strategic issues (value creations, competitive advantage, firm performance).
What does Gallen’s magic trick entail?
Give example
There’s a difference between the “why?” and “how?” values.
Example: to understand the profit mechanism, we need to ask “why?”: “Why is it valuable/ why would customers for it?” => business models give us answers.
What is surveillance capitalism?
Economic system focusing on data processing to ensure profit. (Privacy statements control us).
Internet WAS used by us, but now it USES US.
Could lead to oppression.
What is surveillance society and how does it refer to us?
Discipline => spatial seperation (prison) + training (labour)
Prison cells are all around the guard tower, so prisoners do not know if they are being observed.
This refers to our modern society, as we are exposed to ideas of how we should act and look (we are constantly observed).
What can self-improvement lead to according to Rosa?
Alienation, because in the past = permeable self (shifted responsibility from an individual), now = responsibility to shape our own life.
Based on disembedded rationality => the need for social identity decreases, so identity becomes more flexible.
Focalut thoughts on neoliberalism?
Affects ourselves, as the process of exchange is applied on our relationship with the world that impacts us. We make correlations to external situations and link it with ourselves.
Is the idea of power a positive concept?
No => it alienates us, so we could be controlled.
What is the paradox of the technological advancement?
It separates us from the social environment, but Internet connects people.
What is science based on? (SS)
Matter, mind, life.
What does sociology of knowledge explore?
Connection between knowledge and society.
What are the 4 key notes that organize scientific work?
Universalism, communalism (previous scientific discoveries used in the present), disinterestedness (scrutiny of peers), organized skepticism (only T if based on facts).
What are the 2 ways of viewing science?
Neutral, objective knowledge/ socially organized and produced.
Are scientific discoveries dangerous?
Give examples.
1)Kind of => advancement of battlefield weapons => bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
2)Or sociology + biology => predicting the health of embryo => more abortions (the idea of perfect child)
3) Genetically modified food.
4) Controversial => cloning.
What is the winner takes it all model?
Relate to the AI society and the knowledge society + example
AI society => everyone can be replaced with a machine, so the maker (the top of the hierarchy) makes the majority of profit.
Knowledge society => need for educated people.
The elite is richer than ever.
Example: 1) service sector =>emplyement not increasing, because it’s the perfect environment for monopolization of AI companies.
2) law => lawyers have to go through tons of paperwork, whilst machine can do in seconds, so decline in the need of Law students.
