STS_Exam 1_Terms 3

Legal proceedings aimed at resolving a claim that a product's manufacturer or distributor is legally responsible for the harm incurred by a product user because of some defect in the product or deficiency in the way it was represented.

• Product Liability and Litigation
• Protein
• Public Participation in Science and Technology
• Purposes of Functions Characteristic of Scientific and Technological Activity

Proteins are macromolecules made from twenty different types of amino acids. Proteins constitute the active component of cells.

• Product Liability and Litigation
• Protein
• Public Participation in Science and Technology
• Purposes of Functions Characteristic of Scientific and Technological Activity

Involvement by the public at large or its representatives in advisory or legally binding decision making intended to affect scientific or technological affairs

• Product Liability and Litigation
• Protein
• Public Participation in Science and Technology
• Purposes of Functions Characteristic of Scientific and Technological Activity

To attain an enhanced understanding of the natural world, including human and social phenomena (science); to expand the realm of practical human possibility (technology)

• Product Liability and Litigation
• Protein
• Public Participation in Science and Technology
• Purposes of Functions Characteristic of Scientific and Technological Activity

The physical theory of the composition and behavior of atoms and subatomic particles; explains the duality of light as wave and particle, the existence of chemical bonds, and radioactivity.

• Quantum Mechanics
• Rationalization
• Regulation of Science and Technology
• Resources for Scientific and technological activity

A process whereby practice in a sphere of human activity proceeds decreasingly on the basis of tradition, sentiment, and rule-of-thumb and increasingly on the basis of explicit, abstract, and intellectually calculable knowledge rules, and procedures.

• Quantum Mechanics
• Rationalization
• Regulation of Science and Technology
• Resources for Scientific and technological activity

A social control mechanism whereby a government body elaborates and enforces the terms and conditions, under which scientific and technological activities may be carried out, ostensibly in the name of protecting or promoting what is held to be the public interest.

• Quantum Mechanics
• Rationalization
• Regulation of Science and Technology
• Resources for Scientific and technological activity

Supplies of available means with which such activities are carried out.

• Quantum Mechanics
• Rationalization
• Regulation of Science and Technology
• Resources for Scientific and technological activity

The dilemma often faced by public decision makers who must decide whether to approve a technical innovation either at a point when it is late enough for a socially responsible decision to be made but too late for it be feasible to reject or substantially modify the innovation, or at a point when it is early enough to be feasible to reject or substantially modify the innovation but, since all relevant information about possible long-term effects is not yet available, too early for the decision to be socially responsible.

• Responsibility-Feasibility Dilemma of Modern Innovation
• Socio-Cultural Environmental System
• Science
• Scientific Management/Taylorism

The general context in which scientific and technological developments should be situated if thinking about their causes and consequences is to be systematic and comprehensive.

• Responsibility-Feasibility Dilemma of Modern Innovation
• Socio-Cultural Environmental System
• Science
• Scientific Management/Taylorism