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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

A term that can mean any of the following: the organized; well-founded body of knowledge of natural phenomena

A phrase that refers to techniques devised for the systematic analysis and specification of work tasks and for the evaluation of worker performance, and to policies adopted for the selection, training, motivation, and compensation of workers, all with the goal of increasing productive efficiency.

Steps taken in the research process to assure validity, reliability, and generalization of the results. These steps include observation, gathering the data, hypothesis testing and analysis of data.

An ideology claiming that science and the scientific method alone can provide true knowledge and understanding of the world.

A society's influence on Science and Technology through public opinion, coercion, social suggestion, religion or any other method.

The theory that apparently naturalistic or objective phenomena, e.g., aspects or products of scientific and technological activity such as scientific facts and technological inventions, are actually, in whole or in part, the outcome of often complex, extended, and conflictive social processes.

A system of interacting social and technical elements.

A group of organisms (individuals) that can interbreed and reproduce with each other. Used to distinguish sexually reproducing organisms into groups.

Refers to Individuals and/or groups that have an interest on the issues in hand.

An expression meaning "science, technology, and society."

Specialized cells of animals and plants that have the ability to grow and divide by mitosis.

The idea of a complex of elements viewed with respect to possible interactions between or among them and their possible interactions with the system's environment.

The phenomenon of the dependence of technics on complex sociotechnical support systems for their design, production, use, operation and maintenance

The usually quantitative analysis of systems to determine how they behave or would behave under certain conditions or assumptions.

A traditional cultural orientation toward work, in accordance with which it is dine when and to the extent required to complete a particular task at hand.

The relationship between a Technical Change and Ensuing Social Change it initiates. See Equilibrium¬Disequilibrium and IDUAR model

An aspect of the character of everyday life in a society that refers to the extent to which technics pervade everyday existence

Any mental conception devised to assist in the design, production, operation, use, or maintenance of technics and technics and technical systems