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233032 VO Technoscience and Society: Navigating Life in a Technoscientific World (2026S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 23 - Soziologie
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Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Prüfungstermine

Lehrende

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  • Montag 02.03. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
    Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien     (Vorbesprechung)
  • Montag 09.03. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 16.03. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 23.03. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 13.04. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 20.04. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 27.04. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 11.05. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 18.05. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 08.06. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

We live in societies to which science and technology are central. Our lives are shaped by the technologies that we use (from energy infrastructures to mobile phones) and the knowledge that science provides (whether about our health or the nature of the wider universe), while human choices simultaneously construct and are embedded in technoscience. The aim of this lecture course is to explore these relations between technoscience and society, and to equip students to critically reflect on the role and place of technoscience in their day to day experiences.

The course will cover a range of different sites, actors, and processes through which we see technoscience and society being mutually constituted. Our starting point is exactly that science and society are not separate, but should be understood as always intertwined. Technoscience is social, and the 'human' is always entangled with the technical. Based on this, we examine diverse examples of this entanglement, ranging from discussions of the role of expert knowledge in society to public representations of science within science communication, science policy and governance, knowledge in crisis situations, epistemic diversity and Indigenous knowledge, and the co-consitution of science with capitalism. Concrete empirical cases and examples are used throughout the course to illustrate the key concepts and ideas we will discuss. The lecture course is accompanied by a discussion class (KO 233033).

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

The final grade will be based on an oral exam.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Each question in the oral exam is graded on a 1-5 scale. The total grade is the average of the grades of the single questions.

Prüfungsstoff

Learning materials for the exam are the oral lectures given, the pdfs of the slides available on the e-learning platform, and the set texts students are asked to read. A list of exam questions will be provided. Each student is asked three questions from this list in the oral exam.

Literatur

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

MA HPS: M 1.1, M 1.2, M 1.3
MNB4

Letzte Änderung: Do 11.06.2026 11:27