SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY (science is not absolute, it has

limitation)
AND SOCIETY
2.​ Scientific Inquiry
-​ demands evidence, requiring
History of Science - Prelims accurate data obtained through
Philosophy of Science - Midterms acceptable procedures
Implication - Finals -​ science is not authoritarian, it
●​ STS says that it's up to you how evolves and requires ongoing
you’ll find your purpose in life. validation of theories (results
Quizzes - 25 % can be duplicated, no one owes
Learning Task - 20 % science)
Participation - 5 % 3.​ Scientific Enterprise
Examination - 50 % -​ science is a complex social
●​ Come to class prepared. activity that often faces
Connection resistance to change, but its
Science and Technology goal is to improve life (doing
Science and Society science is solving a problem)
Technology and Society -​ it is organized into disciplines
●​ Statutory and Regulatory and conducted in various
Relation of STS to Accountancy institutions, emphasizing the
●​ Everything we see in this world need for practical applications
is a product of science of scientific knowledge
●​ Technology is the application -​ ethical principles guides
of science scientific conduct, ensuring
Anthropological definition of Society that technology serves the
common good
NATURE OF SCIENCE -​ scientists participate in public
1.​ Scientific Worldview affairs, acting as citizens and
-​ the world is understandable stakeholders in their
through scientific inquiry, communities
which seeks to discover Science
patterns and solutions to global -​ came from the latin word
issues (science is shared) scientia meaning knowledge
-​ scientific knowledge is durable -​ systematic (step by step
and can withstand the test of procedure) study of structure
time, although it may be and behavior of the physical
modified as new discoveries are and natural world through
made observation, experimentation,
-​ science cannot provide and the testing of theories
complete answers to all against the evidence obtained.
questions, particularly those -​ systematic and methodical,
involving faith or aiming to provide answers to
unexplainable phenomena various issues and concerns.
The Scientific Method Ancient Period to 600 BC
1.​ Make an observation -​ paved the way for advances
2.​ Ask a question in science and technology,
3.​ Form a hypothesis that answers advances during the ancient
the question period allowed civilization to
4.​ Make a prediction based on the flourish by finding better
hypothesis ( an educated guess)
ways of communication,
5.​ Do an experiment to test the
transportation,
prediction
6.​ Analyze the results
self-organization and ways
-​ Hypothesis is supported of living.
(report to the community) Ancient Egypt
-​ Hypothesis is not supported -​ some of the earliest science
(go back) records from history indicate
that it was 3,000 years before
Christ.
-​ egyptian medicine was a
trial and error ( first doctors )
-​ example: if you covered an
wound with moldy bread,
the wound quickly heal
-​ explanation: modern science
tells us that certain bread
molds produce penincilin, a
chemical that kill germs that
infect germs.
-​ example: egyptian doctors
gave a seeds of poppy to
relieve the patient's pain
-​ explanation: the study
showed poppy seeds contain
HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS both morphine and codeine
OF SCIENCE AND which are excellent pain
TECHNOLOGY relieving drugs and are used
today
Historical Antecedents -​ Writing system: heyrogliphic
-​ things that happen in the -​ Papyrus: an ancient form of
past paper, made from a plant of
Antecedent the same name. as early 3000
-​ described as a precursor to bc.
the unfolding of life
 -​ scientific name: cyperus pottery using horse drawn
papyrus chariots. it was a
-​ papyrus can also refer to a revolutionary invention that
document on sheets of allowed potters to
papyrus joined together side mass-produce clay items,
by side and rolled into a such as bowls and jars.
scroll -​ Irrigation System -
-​ egypt has irrigation system mesopotamians dug canals
-​ Basin Irrigation - the to distribute water from
egyptians built a network of rivers to their fields. the
earthen walls and channels canals also carried silt and
to form basins in their fields. nutrients to the fields.
the egyptians used a tool -​ dug
called the shaduf to scoop -​ mesopotamians built levees
water from the basins and to protect their fields from
pour it onto their fields. flooding. leveed are
-​ the egyptians invented embankments that are
paper and ink, cosmetics, perpendicular to the water’s
the toothbrush and surface but then arc
toothpaste, and the ancestor backwards to the land
of the modern breath mint -​ used swaps, which were long
-​ mamification sticks with a bucket tied to
Ancient Mesopotamia one end, to move water from
-​ mesopotamian science was the basins to their fields (
characterized by advanced magtataho stick )
math, astronomy and
technological innovation
●​ Sexegesimal System - the
mesopotamians developed a
base-60 numeric system,
which is the basis
-​ writing system: cuneiform
-​ Astronomy - they studied the
phases of the moon and the
movements of the planets.
they created the first
calendar, which had 12 lunar
months and two seasons
-​ Technology -
mesopotamians were making