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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY THROUGHOUT HISTORY

GEC 17 | Science, Technology and Society | Prof. Jocelyn E. Serrano, MSc
BS Psychology 3B | Bicol University College of Social Sciences and Philosophy

HECB
Impacts of Technology to Society DISU
NATURE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Positive Impacts Negative Impacts
SCIENCE HST ●​ Improved health services ●​ Depletion of resources
and transportation ●​ Increased population
Definitions of Science as an… IIBP ELP ●​ Improved education and ●​ Social Isolation
learning process ●​ Unemployment
Theories and ideas about natural and Improved communication
TSAU Idea C ●​
physical world. BJO ●​ Improved business and job
opportunities
Intellectual
Systematic and practical study.
Activity
EARLY HUMAN HISTORY
Body of A discipline and field of study about PARADIGM SHIFTS IN HISTORY (PREHISTORIC)
Knowledge physical and natural world.
SOCIETY OF PREHISTORIC HUMANS
Personal & Used to develop understanding of the
Social Activity world around us. ●​ The evolution of humans accounts for a very small
portion of the history of Earth (4.5 billion years).
Fields of Science PABCPSGA
●​ Around 2.5 million years ago to 1,200 B.C. is when
Psychology Anatomy Biology Chemistry human life existed during the Prehistoric Period.
Physics Statistics Geology Astronomy
PALEOLITHIC TECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOGY ●​ Old Stone Age (2.4 million years ago to 10,000 BCE)
●​ Bipedalism frees the use of the hands to create tools.
●​ The application of scientific knowledge for practical
●​ Homo habilis created the first human tool.
purposes (Oxford reference, n.d.).
→​ simple choppers or sharp-edged stones used as
●​ The application of scientific knowledge to the practical
cutting tools to crush bones or hack roots.
aims of human life or to the change and manipulation
●​ Homo erectus achieved the mastery of fire and refined
of the human environment (Encyclopedia Britannica).
the hand axe which improved hunting ability. fire, hand axe
●​ Homo neanderthalensis FBSDO
INTERACTION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY →​ first to perform human rituals of caring for the sick
→​ burying the dead
●​ Technology and science complement one another.
→​ sewn clothing made of animal skins
→​ Innovation in technology is fueled by scientific
→​ developed verbal language (shared with Homo
understanding.
→​ Scientists can frequently make new discoveries and
sapiens) SCAJB
→​ other skills: making shelters, clothing, art, jewelry
conduct novel studies of nature with the help of
emerging technologies. adornment (twigs, beads, pendants), bow drill (device
for starting fires and spinning textiles).
●​ Humans expanded their technological development to
SOCIETY include artistic creations (cave arts, carved figurines).
●​ Made up of community of people. Middle Stone Age (10,000 to 8,000 BCE)
●​ A complex and interconnected web of human MESOLITHIC TECHNOLOGY
RII relationships, interactions, and institutions that
collectively form a social structure. CTA ●​ New Stone Age (8,000 to 3,000 BCE)
●​ Not static; it undergoes continuous transformation and
●​ Microliths (chipped stone tools).
→​ polished; crafted with points and attached to
adaptation to external influences, technological
advancements, and changing demographics. ETC antlers, bone or wood to serve as spears and arrows.
●​ Introduction of agriculture.
New Stone Age (8,000 to 3,000 BCE)
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
NEOLITHIC TECHNOLOGY
An interdisciplinary field of study that aims to
●​

investigate and comprehend the manner in which… ●​ Shifted from hunter-gatherer societies to human
CST →​ Contemporary science and technology influence settlements. HGS to HS
current society, culture, values, and institutions. SCVI ●​ Development of agriculture and animal domestication. AAD
MV →​ Modern values influence current scientific and ●​ Implementation of gardening and plow agriculture, and
technological developments. STD irrigation to water crops. GPI
●​ Started using of: HDAARSC
○​ hoes ○​ digging sticks ○​ axes

○​ adzes (similar to an ax; ○​ sickle (harvest cereal

with an arced blade) grains)

○​ rotary quern (grinding ○​ ceramic pottery

grain) (cook and store food)
●​ Animals were utilized (source of meat & milk, fibers &
leather, labor). SFL
●​ Architecture (mud huts, long barrows, megaliths). MLM

ROLE OF AGRICULTURE IN TECHNOLOGY

SID SCO
●​ Settlement and ●​ Storage and
Civilization Preservation Techniques

●​ Invention of Tools ●​ Ceramics and Pottery

●​ Domestication of Plants ●​ Observation of Natural

and Animals Phenomena