The Importance Of Technology, Science And Politics

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Technology, Science and Politics As we know through our knowledge acquired in reading throughout the duration of this course, one can argue all aspects of their beliefs as well as provide counter arguments to why opposing theories, themes and epistemological orientations will not come to be or are invalid due to certain theories or beliefs, facts and experience gained as one is in pursue to advance prior knowledge and use existing factors and also adding to them to gain advantage, superiority and dominate nature as explained by one. From my perspective as a student now apart of the academe I only knew the basic foundation of Gender, Race, Culture, Science and Technology. As I was critically engaged in the Subject and attempted to dissect, …show more content…
So an essential requirement for interdisciplinary is the recognition that each discipline has an appropriate and necessary role complementary to and not superior or inferior to that of other.” With this being said it then allowed me to take a stance and led to the belief that each has its positives and negatives. After taking a stance and having a good understanding of different themes, and concepts I could then utilize epistemic orientation to support acquired knowledge without picking and choosing and leaving intertwined information out of these as they came as one to support each other. A substantial amount of knowledge I gained was not only through reading, and lectures but as well as group discussions and listening to peers as they expressed opinions thoughts, disbeliefs and agreements through the material assigned. There were many things that gained interest but few in particular. The first concept that I understood as Technological Determinism.

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