SOCb2503 Social Responsibility: business, research and innovation

Fakulta sociálních studií
podzim 2020
Rozsah
1/1/0. 6 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
doc. Róbert Braun (přednášející)
doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D.
Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Rozvrh
Pá 9. 10. 10:00–11:40 bude_upresneno, Pá 16. 10. 10:00–11:40 bude_upresneno, Pá 23. 10. 10:00–11:40 bude_upresneno, Pá 30. 10. 10:00–11:40 bude_upresneno, Pá 6. 11. 10:00–11:40 bude_upresneno, Pá 13. 11. 10:00–11:40 bude_upresneno, Pá 20. 11. 10:00–11:40 bude_upresneno, Pá 27. 11. 10:00–11:40 bude_upresneno, Pá 4. 12. 10:00–11:40 bude_upresneno, Pá 11. 12. 10:00–11:40 bude_upresneno, Pá 18. 12. 10:00–11:40 bude_upresneno
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 40 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/40, pouze zareg.: 0/40, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/40
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 10 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
This course will focus on what technology means in our current socie$es from a social construc$vist perspec$ve. Its main focus is on the socio-poli$cal nature of technology. It will take as its star$ng point Mar$n Heidegger’s famous text on ‘The ques$on concerning technology’ and show how a new understanding of technology and its embeddedness in social affairs in the second half of the 20th century emerged. The course will offer an introduc$on to by now classic texts and authors of STS, including Winner, Bijker, Latour and Jasanoff. From this theore$cal grounding the course will look at ‘automobility’ as a specific sociotechnical setup and present how this sociotechnical frame is understood by a variety of scholars – as ‘system’, ‘regime’, ‘disposi$f’ or ‘imaginary’. This will lead us to the introduc$on of yet another concept – the ‘nomos of automobility’ which offers a different explanatory tool to understand automobility and sociotechnical setups in general. The course will conclude with an analysis and discussion of what this means for the current $me of technology transi$ons, including autonomous mobility, ar$ficial intelligence and biotechnology.
Výstupy z učení
Students a?er comple@ng this course will: - Have a general awareness of what the rela@onship of technology and society is - Understand the concept of o STS (Science and Technology studies) o SCOT (The social construc@on of technology) o Sociotechnical imaginaries o RRI (Responsible Research and Innova@on) - The rela@onship of these concepts to the philosophy of science and sociology - Understand the concept and methodology of social phenomenology - Have sufficient knowledge of different conceptualiza@ons of technology, of automobility, of research and innova@on - Have prac@ce in theore@cal argumenta@on, understanding complex sociotechnical problems and conceptualiza@ons.
Osnova
  • 1. Friday October 9, 10:00 – 11:30 Technology & society Introduc$on, general concept, theme, administra$ve issues 2. Friday October 16, 10:00 – 11:30 What is technology? Reading: Heidegger: The Ques$on Concerning Technology 3. Friday October 23, 10:00 – 11:30 What is technology? What is STS (Society and Technology Studies)? Reading: Latour: Technology is society made durable 4. Friday October 30, 10:00 – 11:30 What are sociotechnical imaginaries? Reading: Jasanoff: The dreamscape of modernity (an introduc$on) Main Themes II: Automobility 5. Friday November 6, 10:00 – 11:30 What are sociotechnical systems? Reading: Bijker: Of bycicles, bakelites and bulbs (an introduc$on) 6. Friday November 13, 10:00 – 11:30 Automobility as ‘system’ & ‘regime’ and its social consequences Reading: Urry: The system of automobility 7. Friday November 20, 10:00 – 11:30 Automobility as dreamscape and spectacle Reading: Sheller: The city and the car 8. Friday November 20, 10:00 – 11:30 Automobility as nomocracy Reading: Braun-Randell: The nomos of automobility Main themes III: The future of technology and society (Reflec:ons on Covid-19) 9.Friday November 27, 10:00 – 11:30 What is responsible research and innova3on? Reading: Owen et al: responsible research and innova$on 10. Friday December 4, 10:00 – 11:30 What would a post-car world look like? Reading: Braun: The future of road transport (democracy, privacy and social inclusion) 11. Friday December 11, 10:00 – 11:30 The future of Data: DataSpace technologies and digital twins Reading: Braun: Delega$ng human decisions to machines 12. Friday December 18, 10:00 – 11:30 Biopoli3cs and thanatopoli3cs Reading: Agamben: Homo Sacer (What is a camp?)
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • Jasanoff, Sheila, and Sang-Hyun Kim, eds. Dreamscapes of modernity: Sociotechnical imaginaries and the fabrication of power. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
  • Owen, Richard, and Mario Pansera. "Responsible innovation and responsible research and innovation." Handbook on Science and Public Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.
  • Latour, Bruno. "Technology is society made durable." The Sociological Review 38.1_suppl (1990): 103-131.
  • Heidegger, Martin. "The question concerning technology." Technology and values: Essential readings 99 (1954): 113. APA
  • Bijker, Wiebe E. Of bicycles, bakelites, and bulbs: Toward a theory of sociotechnical change. MIT press, 1997.
  • Urry, John. "The ‘system’of automobility." Theory, culture & society 21.4-5 (2004): 25-39.
  • Sheller, Mimi, and John Urry. "The city and the car." International journal of urban and regional research 24.4 (2000): 737-757.
Výukové metody
online seminar format
Metody hodnocení
Mode of instruc@on will be: online seminar format. Students will have to write one academic blog post and a final course paper. The academic blog should reflect some current sociotechnical challenge, addressed via learnings acquired in the course (250-500 words); the final paper will address a specific ques@on within the realm of STS and analyze it according to general academic prac@ce, based on literature review and secondary research (but not independent primary research) (2500-3000 words).
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89753590042?pwd=cndDamoyenVpVDFVeEdMaFppMXpZUT09
Evaluation transformed from IHS to MU scale: A+: Excellent -> A A: Very good - > A A-: Good -> B B+: OK -> C B-: Satisfactory -> D C: Acceptable –> E F: Unacceptable/Fail -> F
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 2019, podzim 2021, podzim 2022, podzim 2023, podzim 2024.