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Question
- There would seem to be several claims involved in the position of the Japanese engineer who refuses to work with the woman on the Puerto Rican engineering team. Pick one of these--the strongest--and defend it using the rights justification framework.
- There also seem to be multiple claims on the part of the woman engineer. Pick the strongest or the one most likely to survive the rights justification framework and justify it.
- Do the rights claims you have examined conflict with one another? Why or why not?
- What course of action best responds with the rights analysis you have carried out above?
Technology choice question
Amish case
Describe briefly the issues involved in technology choice with the Amish. (This is based on the following article: Jamison Wetmore. “Amish Technology: Reinforcing Values and Building Community” in Technology and Society, eds. Johnson and Wetmore. 2009, MIT Press: 298-318)
- Choose a technical artifact from the case.
- Identify two capabilities from Nussbaum's list of ten that are especially important to the Amish community. Describe these capabilities and explain why they are important.
- Does the technology you have chosen serve as a " conversion factor" for converting the capabilities ou have chosen into a functioning? Why or why not?Etc.
Waste for life
The case Waste for Life outlines attempts to integrate the technology, a hot press, into Lesotho. Answer the following questions using this case:
- Is the hot press an appropriate technology? Why or why not?
- Choose two of Nussbaum's capabilities. Describe each briefly and explain its importance in the context of this case.
- Does the hot press work as a conversion factor to convert the capabilities you cite into functionings? Why or why not?
- What aspects of the socio-technical systems explain the different results stemming from efforts to integrate the hot press in Lesotho versus Buenos Aires, Argentina?
Aprovecho stoves
Aprovecho leader, Ianto Evans, talks about an Inverse Peace Corps. Quoting from Bilger's article, the following can be said about this strange activity:
“We wanted to work as an inverse Peace Corps,” Ianto Evans, one of the founding members, told me….We would bring in villagers from Kenya or Lesotho, have them stay with us, and teach us what they knew—everything from cooking to growing things to assessing how much is too much.” [1: 88].
- What change does this imply for the way those doing research into appropriate technology should approach developing communities? (Along these lines, should we even call them "developing communities?"
- Does the Human Capabilities approach support this idea of an Inverse Peace Corps? Support your answer here in detail by outlining what is involved in the capabilities approach.
- How did adopting this idea help Aprovecho overcome difficulties like the lack of appropriateness of its Lorena stove?.
Other cases
- One Laptop Per Child
- Bio-sand Filters for Duchity, Haiti
- Bamboo (Grown in Puerto Rico) Used for Green Construction.
- Pod-casting in Zimbabwe
- Engineers as Honest Brokers in India
- Gender Bias in Airplane Cockpit Construction
Choose the case you find most interesting and most relevant to your studies. then...
Technology choice framework
- Read carefully the article that presents your case study in technological choice. Prepare an outline.
Prepare a poster that discusses your case in terms of the following framework.
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Zoom in . Describe and classify the artifact that highlights your case. Give its physical structure, how it functions when it is working properly, and its "user manual."
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Zoom out . Describe the socio-technical system that surrounds your artifact by constructing a table that outlines hardware, software, physical surroundings, people/groups/roles, procedures, laws, and information systems. Pay special attention to how the surrounding STS constrains and enables the functioning of your technical artifact.
- Discuss/Evaluate how
"appropriate" your technical artifact is to its surrounding environment. Is it "supportive of production by the masses," does it make use of the "best of modern knowledge and experience," does it trend toward "decentralization," does it fit in with the "laws of ecology," is it "gentle in the use of scarece resources," and does it serve human rather than constrain humans to serve it."
- How does your technical artifact stand in relation to Nussbaum's list of
capabilities ? Most importantly, does it serve as a tool to address personal, social, and environmental conversion factors that help convert capabilities into functionings?
Rubrics
A rubric will be used to assess your exam responses. Although it is still under development, it will cover the following skill and content areas:
- Active knowledge of key ethical concepts demonstrated by the ability to integrate them into your responses to the questions.
- Communication Skills, specifically the ability to make clear and sound arguments that integrate ethical concepts and empirical evidence.
- Critical Thinking. The ability to uncover arguments and positions different from your own that challenge your stances. Also the ability to bring presuppositions into question.
Questions & Answers
I'm interested in biological psychology and cognitive psychology
what does preconceived mean
How can I develope my cognitive domain
why is communication effective
Communication is effective because it allows individuals to share ideas, thoughts, and information with others.
effective communication can lead to improved outcomes in various settings, including personal relationships, business environments, and educational settings. By communicating effectively, individuals can negotiate effectively, solve problems collaboratively, and work towards common goals.
it starts up serve and return practice/assessments.it helps find voice talking therapy also assessments through relaxed conversation.
miss
Every time someone flushes a toilet in the apartment building, the person begins to jumb back automatically after hearing the flush, before the water temperature changes. Identify the types of learning, if it is classical conditioning identify the NS, UCS, CS and CR. If it is operant conditioning, identify the type of consequence positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement or punishment
please i need answer
Wekolamo
because it helps many people around the world to understand how to interact with other people and understand them well, for example at work (job).
Agreed 👍 There are many parts of our brains and behaviors, we really need to get to know. Blessings for everyone and happy Sunday!
ARC
A child is a member of community not society elucidate ?
Isn't practices worldwide, be it psychology, be it science. isn't much just a false belief of control over something the mind cannot truly comprehend?
compare and contrast skinner's perspective on personality development on freud
Skinner skipped the whole unconscious phenomenon and rather emphasized on classical conditioning
war
explain how nature and nurture affect the development and later the productivity of an individual.
nature is an hereditary factor while nurture is an environmental factor which constitute an individual personality. so if an individual's parent has a deviant behavior and was also brought up in an deviant environment, observation of the behavior and the inborn trait we make the individual deviant.
Samuel
I am taking this course because I am hoping that I could somehow learn more about my chosen field of interest and due to the fact that being a PsyD really ignites my passion as an individual the more I hope to learn about developing and literally explore the complexity of my critical thinking skills
and having a good philosophy of the world is like a sandwich and a peanut butter 👍
Jonathan
generally amnesi how long yrs memory loss
interpersonal relationships
What would be the best educational aid(s) for gifted kids/savants?
treat them normal, if they want help then give them.
that will make everyone happy
Saurabh
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OpenStax, Business, government, and society. OpenStax CNX. Mar 04, 2014 Download for free at http://legacy.cnx.org/content/col10560/1.6
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