Discuss the ways in which science and technology can be used as agents of social control for good or ill
What will be an ideal response?
Feedback: (1) The labeling of mental illness works as a system of social control. For example, homosexuals were once labeled mentally ill and thus unable to challenge social norms. Today, drugs, surgery, and psychotherapy are used to try to change the "abnormal" to "normal." Some sociologists say this application of the medical model to individuals exhibiting certain behaviors personalizes the problem and deflects attention away from the social sources for the behaviors. (2) The potential for eugenics will progress dramatically in the near future through biotechnology. Gene therapy provides breakthroughs in medicine with positive consequences for those suffering from genetic illnesses. But serious questions exists about when and how to interfere with genes. The logic of genetic engineering, while positive in the sense of ridding future generations of hereditary diseases, is frightening in its basic assumption that problems arise, not from the faults of society, but from the genes of individuals in society.
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