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SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

AND SOCIETY
GEC 108
COURSE MANAGEMENT AND CLASS POLICIES
1. Attendance is a must. Students with 3 consecutive unexcused
absences will be DROPPED from the class.
2. Reading is mandatory. All students are expected to read articles,
books, or texts related to the topics presented in the course.
3. On-time submission of all requirements.
4. Active participation in class activities.
5. Academic dishonesty such as academic fraud, copying or allowing
one’s work to be copied, fabrication/falsification, sabotage of other’s
work, and substitution (ex. taking an exam for someone else) among
others will not be tolerated. Any student found to have participated in
academic dishonesty will receive a “5.0” in the course, and maybe
subject to further disciplinary action.
6. Passing rate is 50%.
GRADING SYSTEM
Quizzes/Exams 40%
Activities 30%
Performance Tasks 20%
Attendance 10%
TOTAL 100%
CHAPTER 1:
GENERAL CONCEPTS AND
STS HISTORICAL
DEVELOPMENTS
Science: It’s GOALS and Branches
SCIENCE “to know”

• originated from the Latin word “scientia”

• on-going global human endeavor to better


understand the natural world

a systematized body of knowledge based on


facts gathered through careful observation,
experiences, and experiments to formulate a
verifiable conclusion or law that serves as a
basis of technology for the benefit of
humankind.
GOALS OF SCIENCE
OBSERVED
PREDICT
EXPLAIN
Aim to quench people’s curiosity, solve particular
problems, and provide for the necessary answers for
individuals’ needs, i.e., science and technology.
SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Observation of the phenomena

Statement of the problem

Formulation of a hypothesis

Conducting an experiment

Analysis, generalization, and conclusion


BRANCHES OF SCIENCE

DEALS WITH THE SCIENTIFIC


DEALS WITH THE STUDY
study of social, cultural,
OF
economic, psychological
THE UNIVERSE AND THE and political forces
PHYSICAL WORLD

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES POLITICAL SCIENCE


PHYSICAL SCIENCES PSYCHOLOG
Y
SOCIOLOG
EARTH SCIENCES
Y
NATURAL SCIENCES
BIOLOGICAL DEALS WITH THE STUDY OF LIVING THINGS,
SCIENCES THEIR LIFE CYCLES, ADAPTATIONS, AND
INTERACTION WITH THE ENVIRONMENT

PHYSICAL DEALS WITH THE STUDY OF MATTER, ITS


SCIENCES PROPERTIES AND ITS INTERACTION WITH ENERGY -
THE PRINCIPLES THAT GOVERNS THEM.

EARTH DEALS WITH THE STUDY OF EARTH AND THE


SCIENCES SYSTEMS IN SPACE
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

BOTANY DEALS WITH THE STUDY OF PLANTS

DEALS WITH THE STUDY OF ANIMALS ZOOLOGY

ECOLOGY TALKS ABOUT THE INTERACTION between


organisms and their environment
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
DEALS WITH THE MATTER, ENERGY AND ITS
PHYSICS INTERACTION - EXPLORES HOW AND WHY THE
UNIVERSE WORKS

DEALS WITH THE STUDY OF COMPOSITION,


CHEMISTRY STRUCTURE, AND PROPERTIES OF
SUBSTANCES AND WITH THE
TRANSFORMATIONS THAT THEY UNDERGO
EARTH SCIENCES
DEALS WITH THE STUDY OF THE EARTH
GEOLOGY – its composition, structure,
and the processes

DEALS WITH THE STUDY OF THE


METEOROLOGY
weather and the atmosphere

DEALS WITH THE STUDY OF THE HEAVENLY


ASTRONOMY bodies and the phenomena
happening outside the earth’s
atmosphere
SOCIAL SCIENCES
PSYCHOLOGY REFERS TO THE STUDY OF THE human mind
and behavior

DEALS WITH THE STUDY OF SOCIETY AND its


SOCIOLOGY structural relationship and interactions

DEALS WITH THE STUDY OF THE


POLITICAL
GOVERNMENT and nature of political action
SCIENCE
THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE

• DEFINE KNOWLEDGE
• CLASSIFY ITS CATEGORY
• CONCEPTUALIZE THE
SCIENTIFIC METHOD
THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
known as epistemology originates from a greek word
“episteme” which mean Knowledge

• is the philosophical study of the nature, origin, and limits of


human knowledge, and remains an area of vibrant research.

SERVES AS A REFLECTION OF THE IMMENSE


IMPORTANCE OF KNOWLEDGE IN OUR LIVES
KNOWING VS BELIEVING

Panda said that “I know


that Oishi Ramen Bai is
delicious.”

John said that “I believe


that Oishi Ramen Bai is
delicious.”
CLASSIFICATION OF
KNOWLEDGE
Propositional Knowledge

Procedural Knowledge

Personal Knowledge
Propositional Knowledge
• knowledge of facts
• descriptive or declarative knowledge
Procedural Knowledge
• knowledge about how to do something (“ know-how”)
• implicit/ability knowledge
Personal Knowledge
• knowledge gained through firsthand experiences
• knowledge by acquaintance
Ultimate Sources of Knowledge
Formal Science
• the study that uses formal systems to
generate knowledge, such as in Mathematics.
ACHIEVES ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY

Empirical Science
• uses an experience to gain knowledge
such as in Natural and social sciences.
“DOES NOT SAY “THIS IS TRUE”, RATHER “THIS IS THE MOST LIKELY
EXPLANATION IN LIGHT OF EXISTING KNOWLEDGE”.
SCIENTIFIC METHOD
SCIENCE ------- TECHNOLOGY

a systematized body of • the application of conceptual


knowledge based on facts knowledge to achieve practical
gathered through careful goals
observation, experiences, and • the branch of knowledge
experiments to formulate a dealing with engineering or
verifiable conclusion or law applied sciences.
that serves as a basis of
technology for the benefit of
humankind.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARE INTERDEPENDENT


SCIENCE -------- TECHNOLOGY

STUDY OF HOW TO USE THE SOLAR PANELS


ENERGY COMING FROM THE
SUNLIGHT
SCIENCE --------- TECHNOLOGY

UNDERSTANDING THE LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (LED)


electron’s excitation LAMPS
and de-excitation LASERS
SCIENCE ------- TECHNOLOGY

UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT SAFETY BELTS


of impulse, momentum, AND AIRBAGS
and Newton’s laws
SCIENCE ------- TECHNOLOGY

UNDERSTANDING ON PRODUCTION OF TELESCOPES


lenses and lights and microscopes
TECHNOLOGY: A FRIEND OR AN ENEMY?

The answer lies in your hands!


THANK YOU
VERY MUCH!

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