Course overview
This course examines the complex interrelations between technology and human societies. Students learn how technologies are socially impactful. But equally, students learn how technology use and development are socially shaped and constructed. Students additionally develop their capacities to think ethically about technologies, as students are prompted to reflect on the links between technology, social inequalities, and asymmetrical power relations. Through a case study approach, students in this course learn how sociological perspectives illuminate how the world is technologically transforming, and what the social implications are of those transformations.
Course learning outcomes
- Comprehend and recognise how technologies shape and are shaped by human societies
- Reflect ethically on technology use and development from multiple normative perspectives
- Construct a sociological appraisal of a contemporary technology and its social implications