STS_Exam 1_Terms 2

The idea that inventions are created by single individuals who succeed by sheer genius, resolve, and hard work

• Heroic Theory of Invention
• High Technology
• Hypothesis
• IUDAR Model

Late twentieth century technics and technologies heavily dependent on or embodying advanced scientific or engineering knowledge, e.g., many of those produced by and used in the microelectronics-based, biotechnology, aerospace, and instrumentation industries.

• Heroic Theory of Invention
• High Technology
• Hypothesis
• IUDAR Model

A testable scientific idea that can be proved right or wrong with experiments.

• Heroic Theory of Invention
• High Technology
• Hypothesis
• IUDAR Model

A model of the technical¬change-ensuing-social-change (TCESC) relationship in which the social change outcome of a technical change is a joint product of the nature of the technical change realized and the interplay of the SCES (at the time the technical change is introduced) with five interacting intervening variables:

• Heroic Theory of Invention
• High Technology
• Hypothesis
• IUDAR Model

Technology native to a particular place, people, or region.

• Indeginous Technology
• Industrial Revolution
• Industrialization
• Influence Agent

The transformation of a technology based on human and animal labor to a technology based on the use of inanimate energy sources.

• Indeginous Technology
• Industrial Revolution
• Industrialization
• Influence Agent

The continual expanding application of sophisticated technology designed to efficiently draw energy and raw materials out of the environment and fashion them into products for human use

• Indeginous Technology
• Industrial Revolution
• Industrialization
• Influence Agent

A social actor, e.g., a government agency, business firm, union, or public interest group, that exercises some type of influence on scientific or technological activity or products or on some aspect of the total societal enterprise of science or technology.

• Indeginous Technology
• Industrial Revolution
• Industrialization
• Influence Agent

A change in some aspect of scientific or technological activity or products or of the total societal enterprise of science or technology brought about through some types of influence exercise

• Influence Effect
• Influence Exercise
• Innovation/Invention
• Innovation Diffusion

Any of several qualitatively different types of influence on science or technology that can be exerted by an influence agent in trying to bring some king of influence effect

• Influence Effect
• Influence Exercise
• Innovation/Invention
• Innovation Diffusion