Deloy, Paul Dominic F.
BSIT - ELXT 2B
Module V: Science and Culture
Pre-test: WHAT YOU KNOW CHART
Directions: On the first column of the chart below. Write your answer to the questions
based on your ideas. Please leave the third column blank for now.
WHAT I KNOW
The most obvious effect of
science has been its medical
and technological applications,
with the accompanying effects
on health care, lifestyles, and
social structures. Science
affects society in a variety of
areas, including basic ones like
transport, industry, economy
and technology.
Questions
1.
What I Learned ( Activity #)
In what ways Science is the comprehension of natural
science
affect laws, while technology is the application
of scientific knowledge in creating
culture?
products or tools that improves lives.
Culture provides the social platform and
shared values that bring and keep people
together.
Society helps determine how its 2. In what ways Our culture is a scientific one, defining
resources are deployed to fund
culture
affect what is natural and what is rational. Its
scientific work, encouraging
values can be seen in what are sought
science
some sorts of research and
out as facts and made as artefacts, what
discouraging others. Similarly,
are designed as processes and products,
scientists are directly
and what are forged as weapons and
influenced by the interests and
filmed as wonders.
needs of society and often
direct their research towards
topics that will serve society.
Activity #1: Skill-building Activities
DevelopmentActivity
Directions: Enumerate the following:
Five (5) cultural-personal factors that influenced scientists:
1. THE JOY OF SCIENCE. For most scientists, a powerful psychological motivation
is curiosity about "how things work" and a taste for intellectual stimulation.
2. METAPHYSICAL WORLDVIEWS. Metaphysics forms a foundation for some
conceptual factors, such as criteria for the types of entities and interactions that
should be used in theories.
3. IDEOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES are based on subjective values and on political goals
for "the way things should be" in society. These principles span a wide range of
concerns, including socioeconomic structures, race relations, gender issues, social
philosophies and customs, religions, morality, equality, freedom, and justice.
4. OPINIONS OF "AUTHORITIES" can also influence evaluation. The quotation
marks are a reminder that a perception of authority is in the eye of the beholder.
Perceived authority can be due to an acknowledgment of expertise, a response to
a dominant personality, and/or involvement in a power relationship.
5. SOCIAL-INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS. These five factors (psychology, practicality,
metaphysics, ideology, authority) interact with each other, and they develop and
operate in a complex social context at many levels — in the lives of individuals, in
the scientific community, and in society as a whole.
Characteristics of Science culture:
1. Empirical
2. Unique
3. Holistic
Ways by which science affects culture:
1. medical and technological applications
2. changing expectations and realities
3. contributes and ensuring a longer and healthier life
II. FormativeAssessment
Directions: Read and understand the comparison between the two concepts below, then answer as
directed.
SCIENCE AFFECTS CULTURE
The most obvious effect of science has
been itsmedical and technological
applications, with the accompanying
effects on health care, lifestyles and
social structures. But sciences also
influence culture in may modern
societies, by playing a major role in
shaping cultural worldviews concept, and
thinking patterns. Sometimes, this occurs
by the gradual diffusion of ideas from
science into the culture. At other times,
however, there is a conscious effort, by
scientist or nonscientists, to use ― the
authority
ofscience‖fortheoreticalpurposes,toclaim
that scientific theories and evidence
support a particular belief system or
politicalprogram.
CULTURE AFFECTS SCIENCE
How does culture affect science? Some influences
occurs as a result of manipulating the ―science
affects culture‖. If society wants to obtain certain
types of science-based medical or technological
applications, this will influence the types of
scientific research that society supports with its
resources. And if scientist have already accepted
some cultural concept, such as metaphysical
and/or ideological theories, they will tend to
prefer (and support) scientific theories that agree
with these cultural-personal theories.
Enumerate ways how cultural affects science
Enumerate ways how science affects
culture.
Scientists' values and beliefs are influenced by the
larger culture in which they live.
1.
medical and technological
applications
Society helps determine how its resources are
deployed to fund scientific work, encouraging
2. changing expectations and realities
some sorts of research and discouraging others.
3. contributes and ensuring a longer and
healthier life
Activity #2: What I Know Chart
Directions: After you learned all these things are about science and culture,
you are now ready tofill-up the third column of the ―What
you know Chart‖in pre-test.
Activity #3: Check for Understanding
Direction: Identify what is asked for:
1.All activities of science areinfluencedby C
A.Cultural-personalfactors
B.thought-styles
C. bothA&B
2.The following factors influence scientist in theory evaluation,except B
A.Intellectualcuriosity
B.Financialsecurity
C.Personalopinion
3.Science and culture are mutually interactive. It meansthat: C
A.Scienceaffectsculture
B. Culture affects culture C. bothA&B
4.The following are characteristics of scientific culture,except B
A.Dissent
B.proactive
C.originality
5. had a strong influence on cultural values all over theworld. A
A. True
B. False
Activity #4: Thinking about Learning
Which of the following best describes your understanding on the
relationship of science and culture? Shade the box of your choice.
CLEAR
(I get it! I thoroughly
understand theconcept)
BUGGY
( I understand it most of the
concept, but there are few
things that I can’t)
MUDDY
(I don’t get it at all)