Technology and Society

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Department of Languages and Humanities

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Science, technology, society, an individual: specification of concepts and relations. Forms of social arrangement depending on the development of science and technologies. Knowledge transfer within historic perspective. Industrialization: history, forms, types, stages of industrial society. The responsibility of an individual, institutions, states and international organizations for the development, promotion and consequences of technologies. Social consequences of technological progress in the period of the industrial, chemical, information revolution. Science, technology and human capital in global problems solution, the role of science, experts and consultant's reports in the decision-making domain.

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