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22 Cards in this Set
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System-Embeddedness of Techniques |
Dependence of technics on complex sociotechnical support systems |
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System Analysis |
Quantitative analysis of systems to determine how they behave under certain conditions or assumptions |
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Task Orientation Toward Work |
traditional cultural orie toward work |
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TCESC relationship |
Technical change ensuing social change |
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Technicity |
Aspect of the character of everday life in a society that refers to the extent to which technics pervade everyday existence |
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Technic-Related Intellectual Constructs |
Mental conception devised to assist in the design, production, operation, ... |
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Technical Specialist |
Indi who specializes in a highly technical field |
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Technics |
Material products of human fabrication |
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Technological Determinism |
society is determined in some sense by its tech. |
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Tech Literacy |
Ability to use, manage, understand, and assess tech |
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Tech'nl Maximality |
Quality often exemplified in tech'nl endeavors, striving to do something tech-related to the highest degree possible |
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Tech'nl Unemployment |
Tech'nl change, esp. automotive tech, causes unemployment |
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Tech'nl Tool |
Device used by humans to complete a task |
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Technology |
Complex comprising the knowledge, materials, and methods used in making a particular kind of technic |
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Tech Assessment |
Systematic estimation of the possible and likely social, economic, health, and environemental ... |
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Tech transfer |
Conveyance of techics, ... transmission of ... |
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Themata |
Nonscientific culturally generated and transmitted supposition about nature |
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Theory |
Generalization about a phenomenon, explanation of how or why something occurs |
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Scientific theory |
Established and experimentally verified fact or collection of facts about the world |
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Time Orie toward Work |
Modern cultural view of work as fungible labor carried out for the duration of the set workday |
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Virus |
Smallest of all organisms and often not considered alive because they strictly depend on a cellular host organism |
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Whistle blowing |
Public charges, hidden misconduct in the accuser's organization, damaging public interest |
