Analysis of Technological Determinism and Social Constructionism

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10.2991/assehr.k.220504.252How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Technology determinism; Social determinism; Hazardous Concept (Leo Marx); Socio-technical

Abstract

The theory of technological society has developed for a hundred years, and its real prosperity is in the recent century, but its root ideas have a long history. The reality of technological and social phenomena is so complex and varied that these factors have directly influenced the way people view the relationship between technology and society from multiple perspectives, and as a result, many different theories of technological society have been proposed. The debate over technological determinism and social determinism and the fact that the theory of techno-society has undergone a historical process of dialectical development mean that the Marxist theory of techno-society, which emphasizes the evolution and development of socio-technology as a whole, is maturing, a trend that has important theoretical significance for the complex relationship between technology and society as a whole, and also considerable practical value for the sound development of techno-society. Along with the development of technology as the first productive force, social guidance as a mutually reinforcing role plays an unimaginable power and leads the changes of the future. Through the comparison and analysis of the two views in the article, it could be concluded that the social construction of technology shaped our society during modern times.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Qianyu Feng
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - Analysis of Technological Determinism and Social Constructionism
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1391
EP  - 1394
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.252
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.252
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