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Based on the attached document (The Central Concepts_ Information Technology and Society) material, come up with 6 multiple-choice questions to test your classmates' knowledge of the course material. Also, Please provide the correct response at the bottom of the list of questions.

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Albi

 

Rather than being a simple assortment of material objects and arTfacts, technology is bestthought of as a system composed of a complex relaTonship between arTfacts, objects, powerstructures, poliTcal systems, knowledge, pracTces, and cultures.Our values, beliefs, and prioriTes are inFuenced by our cultural context, and even simple words(such as "informaTon", "technology,” and "society") or material tools or objects can be imbuedwith a complex array of meanings and associaTons, which in turn may help shape our outlook onthe world.Our world outlooks are in part shaped by a larger system of ideas that are related to largerpower structures, which conFict theorists and poliTcal economists refer to as the "dominantideology."In North America, the dominant ideology is related to the capitalist economic system and mayinFuence the way our society both envisions and produces new informaTon technologies.Because technologies have become so ubiquitous in our daily lives, it is important to apply themethods of a sociology researcher to engage in the systemaTc study of social relaTonships,groups, and cultures in order to be±er comprehend the relaTonship between technology andsociety.Sociologists are concerned with how technological change relates to human behaviour,inequality, poliTcal and cultural engagement, community formaTon, social capital, migraTonpa±erns, and idenTty formaTon. At the same Tme, sociologists reject technologicallydeterminisTc explanaTons of events.By rejecTng hard determinism in favour of the concept of "technological momentum," we canappreciate how socieTes can shape the direcTon of technological development, while alsounderstanding how new technologies might open up new possibiliTes and close o² older ones.Major invenTons, such as agriculture, metallurgy, the prinTng press, steam power, andautomated machinery, can have signi³cant impacts on historical development and evencontribute to the formaTon of di²erent "eras" of social formaTons.´hese technologies are always developed within larger poliTcal and economic frameworks,which can inFuence the condiTons for their development.´he emergence of a new technology is related to exisTng power structures and may be used toeither reinforce or, someTmes, challenge the success of those exisTng constellaTons of power.SomeTmes new technologies can even contribute to changes in long-standing, socially heldideas (such as "Tme," "space," "public," and "private").´echnological development has conTnually resulted in shiµing condiTons of work and labour.¶rom a poliTcal economy perspecTve, this shiµ generally has, in the past two centuries,corresponded to the creaTon and use of machines, which limit the control that workers haveover the manufacturing process.

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