Question 1

Define and give an example of a broken technological "recipes of understanding.?

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Question 2

What did Foucault mean by the term power-knowledge?

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A)   The structures of power shape both what we take to be knowledge and what knowledge we seek out.
B)   Science and technology are situated outside of the hierarchies of human institutions.
C)   Humans and technology act on the other.
D)   All of the above.E) C) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 3

The story of the National City Line demonstrates:

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A)   the obvious superiority of buses to electric streetcars.
B)   the limitations of streetcars for inter-urban transportation.
C)   a reasonable corporate strategy to develop a market.
D)   anti-trust violations that eliminated automobile competitionE) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 4

Which of the following statements best elaborates on the key idea that "technology is not imperative"?

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A)   Technology and the science behind it are often presented to us as final, inevitable, unchangeable structures.
B)   We do have control over technology even as it has control over us.
C)   Human decisions are behind which technologies to build and scientific questions to ask, and which not.
D)   All of the above.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 5

According to the author:

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A)   technology shapes culture.
B)   culture shapes technology.
C)   Both a and b.
D)   Neither a nor b.E) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 6

What is the average number of traffic deaths each year in the U.S.?

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A)   Under 4,000
B)   About 10,000
C)   About 30,000
D)   Well over 100,000E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 7

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) 
-____ Alfred Schutz

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A)   Self-fulfilling prophecy
B)   Technological somnambulism
C)   Recipes of understanding
D)   Alfred Schutz
E)   Bruno LatourF)  G.E. MooreG) C) and F)
H) A) and C)

Question 8

Black box, a term proposed by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, understands science as:

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A)   hybrids between facts and science.
B)   outwardly logically defined, but actually compiled over time as a result of many debates.
C)   phenomenological recipes.
D)   paradigm shifts.E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 9

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) 
-____ Langdon Winner

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A)   Self-fulfilling prophecy
B)   Technological somnambulism
C)   Recipes of understanding
D)   Alfred Schutz
E)   Bruno LatourF)  G.E. MooreG) E) and F)
H) C) and E)

Question 10

What is Langdon Winner posing in coining the term "technological somnambulism"?

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A)   Why is routinzation of new behavior so hard to accomplish?
B)   Without culture, would we know what to do with our technological means?
C)   Why is the black box of technology so hard to crack open?
D)   Why, even as technology negatively impacts society, are humans so complicit in this reconstitution?E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 11

According to Steven Shapin, Teller, a scientist working on the Manhattan Project, viewed that "it was the scientist's job to discover the laws of nature, not to pronounce on whether the laws permitting nuclear fusion ought to be mobilized for the construction of a hydrogen bomb." What is this view an example of?

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A)   Moore's naturalistic fallacy
B)   Latour and Woolgar's "black box"
C)   Joliot and Curie's "chain reaction"
D)   Weber's "fabrication"E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 12

According to the text, which of the following is a "hidden subsidy" for automobiles in the U.S.?

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A)   Road construction, maintenance, and repair
B)   Emergency services responding to motor vehicle accidents
C)   Military intervention in the Middle East
D)   All of the above are hidden subsidiesE) A) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 13

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) 
-____ Robert K. Merton

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A)   Self-fulfilling prophecy
B)   Technological somnambulism
C)   Recipes of understanding
D)   Alfred Schutz
E)   Bruno LatourF)  G.E. MooreG) All of the above
H) E) and F)

Question 14

What does the author mean by the "social organization of convenience?" Give an example and explain how it applies.?

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Question 15

Explain three ways that cars contribute to the "erosion of social commitment" according to the author?

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Question 16

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) 
-____ Naturalistic Fallacy

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A)   Self-fulfilling prophecy
B)   Technological somnambulism
C)   Recipes of understanding
D)   Alfred Schutz
E)   Bruno LatourF)  G.E. MooreG) A) and B)
H) C) and D)

Question 17

Phenomenology is best defined as:

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A)   the manner in which we experience everyday life.
B)   a chain reaction of simple events.
C)   the finalizability of technological inevitability.
D)   paradigm shifts.E) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 18

Boundary work makes it clear whose knowledge bears authorityover the situation at hand.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

What was Weber's view of science?

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A)   It is then up to those who pick the fruits of science to decide what best to do with scientific knowledge-not scientists themselves.
B)   Science shouldn't be polluted with culture, values, interests, and ambitions.
C)   The point of science was to measure the world and to refine our methods of thinking.
D)   All of the above.E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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What is the average number of traffic deaths each year in the U.S.?

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Boundary work makes it clear whose knowledge bears authorityover the situation at hand.

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Which of the following statements best elaborates on the key idea that "technology is not imperative"?

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Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Langdon Winner

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What is Langdon Winner posing in coining the term "technological somnambulism"?

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Explain three ways that cars contribute to the "erosion of social commitment" according to the author?

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Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Naturalistic Fallacy

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Define and give an example of a broken technological "recipes of understanding.?

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Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Robert K. Merton

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What does the author mean by the "social organization of convenience?" Give an example and explain how it applies.?

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What did Foucault mean by the term power-knowledge?

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The story of the National City Line demonstrates:

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According to the text, which of the following is a "hidden subsidy" for automobiles in the U.S.?

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According to the author:

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Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Alfred Schutz

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Phenomenology is best defined as:

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Black box, a term proposed by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, understands science as:

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What was Weber's view of science?

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What is the average number of traffic deaths each year in the U.S.?

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Boundary work makes it clear whose knowledge bears authorityover the situation at hand.

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Which of the following statements best elaborates on the key idea that "technology is not imperative"?

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Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Langdon Winner

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What is Langdon Winner posing in coining the term "technological somnambulism"?

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Explain three ways that cars contribute to the "erosion of social commitment" according to the author?

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Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Naturalistic Fallacy

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Define and give an example of a broken technological "recipes of understanding.?

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What does the author mean by the "social organization of convenience?" Give an example and explain how it applies.?

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What did Foucault mean by the term power-knowledge?

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The story of the National City Line demonstrates:

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According to the text, which of the following is a "hidden subsidy" for automobiles in the U.S.?

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According to the author:

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Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Alfred Schutz

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Phenomenology is best defined as:

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