All societies make and use technology. What is the difference between technology in the traditional sense and what the text refers to as new technology?

What will be an ideal response


It is the extent of capability that new technology creates as opposed to the older technology. New technologies permit what had never been done before including the exploration of space, to travel further and faster than ever before, to do genetic engineering, and so on.

Sociology

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The 1963 Equal Pay Act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act were designed to prevent discrimination at work, but why is it that men still make more than women?

A. Some employers hire only part-time workers. B. Some employers outsource jobs to other countries. C. Some employers give highly similar jobs a different title, classification, and pay scale. D. Some employers hire women of childbearing age in the hopes that they will quit when they have a baby.

Sociology

Karl Marx and Immanuel Wallerstein have both argued that

a. capitalism requires the existence of a class of wage laborers b. the distinction between merchant and industrial capitalism is a vital one c. capitalism originated in fourteenth-century Italy d. the maximum accumulation of profits over time is the guiding aim of capitalist economic activity

Sociology

According to the author, which two pieces of legislation had the greatest impact on the homeless situation in America?

a. The Anti-Insane Asylum Act and the Food Safety Act b. The Health and Safety at Work Act and the Olmstead Act c. The American with Disabilities Act and the Quality of Care Act d. The Housing Act and the Community Mental Health Centers Act

Sociology

A trouble is

a. a societal issue. c. the result of personal shortcomings. b. deeply and significantly social. d. outside any one person's control.

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