HUMN 344 6980 Technology and Culture (2238): Week 1-2 Quiz

Week 1-2 Quiz

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Culture

The questions in this section are from the readings on the Elements of Culture and Kinds of Culture & Cultural Change.

Question 1

2 / 2 points

Which of the following is FALSE about high culture?

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	It is associated with intellectualism.
	It is associated with wealth.
	It is associated with the upper class.
	It is associated with television and movies.

Question 2

2 / 2 points

Which of the following is FALSE about popular culture?

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	It is associated with intellectualism.
	It is associated with sports.
	It is associated with rock music.
	It is associated with mainstream society.

Question 3

2 / 2 points

Which of the following is TRUE about cultural norms?

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	They are the same across every culture.
	They change only when laws do.
	They can be different in different cultures.
	Subcultures always have the same norms as the mainstream culture.

Question 4

2 / 2 points

Which of the following is MOST TRUE of a counterculture?

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	It rejects some of the larger culture’s norms and values.
	It adapts most of the larger culture’s norms and values.
	It always results in the formation of a cult.
	It definitively requires a charismatic leader.

Question 5

2 / 2 points

Which of the following is TRUE about norms and beliefs?

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	They change frequently over time within the same culture.
	They do not change over time within the same culture.
	All cultures have the same norms and beliefs.
	Norms and beliefs today are exactly the same as they were 10 years ago.

Question 6

2 / 2 points

Subcultures can have a shared identity around

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	a specific video game
	a language and food traditions
	a specific form of self help
	all of these

Question 7

2 / 2 points

Two important values in American culture are

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	individualism and the work ethic
	communal responsibility and the work ethic
	individualism and communal responsibility
	law and order

Question 8

2 / 2 points

Formal norms can also be called

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	laws
	customs
	folkways
	trends

Question 9

2 / 2 points

How do inventions shape culture?

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	People use them in place of older ways of carrying on activities
	People use them in place of older ways of relating to others
	People use them to carry out new kinds of activities
	all of these

Question 10

2 / 2 points

Which of the following is TRUE?

Question options:

	Material culture spreads through a culture faster than nonmaterial culture.
	Ideas and beliefs can change as soon as new inventions are adapted.
	Solutions to problems cause by new innovations arise quickly in a culture.
	Nonmaterial culture never changes with new innovations.

Technology as a Concept

The questions in this section are from Leo Marx’s “Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept.”

Question 11

2 / 2 points

Why might the concept of technology be hazardous according to Leo Marx?

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	Its lack of specificity can lead to a sense of it being disconnected from human agency thus making technology have its own agency
	It is used to refer to the complex human systems that drive its use and development
	It can cause a dependency in humans that is difficult if not impossible to disrupt
	Its specific reference to things made and used by humans does not recognize its own agency to change history

Question 12

2 / 2 points

An example of a sociotechnical system is

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	the railroad
	the telegraph
	the urban waste and water system
	all of these

Question 13

2 / 2 points

What does the term “technology” encompass that the term “mechanic arts” did not?

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	The idea that this phenomena belongs to the finer arts and higher learning
	The idea that this phenomena belongs to the the trades.
	The idea that this phenomena belongs to the mundane world of work.
	The idea that this phenomena belongs to single artifacts only.

Question 14

2 / 2 points

Daniel Webster equated progress with the advance of the mechanic arts.

Question options:

	True
	False

Technique

The questions in this section are from the “From Technological Autonomy to Technological Bluff” reading by J Craig Hanks and Emily Kay Hanks.

Question 15

2 / 2 points

Diverted people in a technological society called forth by the technological bluff

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	Have little time for critical thinking or reflection
	Experience wonder and delight at new technologies
	Embrace new technology as good for humans
	Believe that technological advances can help solve climate change

Question 16

2 / 2 points

J. Hanks and E. Hanks show that society adapts to technology by noting how

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	Legislators support technological advances by enacting legislation that reduces liability costs for companies who develop new technologies
	Laws are passed to increase liability costs for companies who develop new technologies
	Legislation is unable to keep up with technological advances
	Legislators have not worked with corporations to make it easier and less expensive for them to develop new technologies.

Question 17

2 / 2 points

Being “educated” within a technological system, according to Ellul, does not connote wisdom, but rather means possessing measurable and marketable skills.

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	True
	False

Question 18

2 / 2 points

Ellul believes that genuine freedom is not possible in a technological society since individual choices can only be made to continue the existing technological order.

Question options:

	True
	False

Digitization

The questions in this section are from Nathan Ensmenger’s “The Digital Construction of Technology” reading.

Question 19

2 / 2 points

According to Nathan Ensminger software plays an important role in computers because it

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	Defines the human relationship to the computer
	is subject to constraints imposed by corporate cultures formal and informal industry standards and/or government regulations
	It can be used by historians to study many different aspects of computer use
	All of these

Question 20

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Digitization is

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	The combination of data and the means to manipulate it
	Computer artifacts and the data representations
	Data and software
	All of these

Technological Determinism & Social Constructivism

The questions in this section are about technological determinism and social constructivism.

Question 21

2 / 2 points

Which of the following is TRUE of technological determinism?

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	It views technology as developing independently of society but capable of producing societal effects.
	technology is seen to be an autonomous, self-determining and omniscient process
	The focus on technology itself can detract from questions regarding power and political prestige
	technology is viewed as something inevitable
	All of these

Question 22

2 / 2 points

Which of the following is TRUE of social constructivism?

Question options:

	It focuses on the social shaping of technology.
	It does not consider that technology and society interact with each other.
	It was the dominant approach to the study of technology in the 1980s
	It does not study how technology affects everyday lives.

Matching

Question 23

3 / 3 points

Match the correct term to its definition.

__1__	Vast functional systems that incorporate technology, artifacts, techniques and institutions
__4__	Intentions inscribed in technologies that influence others
__3__	The view that artifacts shape social relations
__2__	The technical shaping of society and the autonomy of technological change

1.	Sociotechnical systems
2.	Technological determinism
3.	Artifactual determinism
4.	Technological politics

Question 24

3 / 3 points

Match the term to the correct definition.

__1__	The inertia of technological systems based on entrenched resources that constrains subsequent decisions
__4__	When humans unquestioningly accept that new is better and that technological change is inevitable and good.
__3__	Things that arise that were not foreseen by designers which can shape social relations
__2__	Constraints on the freedom of choice in designing new technologies

1.	Technological momentum
2.	Technological frames
3.	Unintended consequences
4.	Technological bluff

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HUMN 344 6980 Technology and Culture (2238): Week 1-2 Quiz

Week 1-2 Quiz

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