Explaining a new behavior as the almost-automatic outcome of changing technology:

a. fails to recognize how technology interacts with social change, often being developed or adopted because of political, social and economic change
b. rejects human agency in explaining why we do what we do
c. allows businesses to predict what will happen if people buy their product
d. makes ethical decisions and moral reasoning impossible


a. fails to recognize how technology interacts with social change, often being developed or adopted because of political, social and economic change

Sociology

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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