DEVRY LAS 432 Week 2 DQ 1 Technology and Determinism

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DEVRY LAS 432 Week 2 DQ 1 Technology and
Determinism

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• LAS 432 Week 2 DQ 1 Technology and Determinism
• Wajcman raises some interesting issues regarding
  gender and technology the association of
  technology with masculinity, the role of women as
  consumers of technological products, and the new
  perspectives and opportunities that soft
  technologies, such as computers, have opened for
  women. Why do the soft

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• technologies open more opportunities for women?
  To what extent have these technologies impacted
  the perceptions of mens and womens roles in the
  economy, within marriage, and in society as a
  whole?
• There seems to be a tendency for us to think that
   technology is neutral as to social groups,
  women, older,  Native Americans, the poor and so
  on.   We need to examine this assumption
  carefully.  Wajcman raises some interesting
  issues regarding gender and technology the
  association of technology with masculinity, the
  role of women as consumers of technological
  products, and the new perspectives and
  opportunities that soft technologies, such as
  computers, have opened for women. Why do the soft
  technologies open more opportunities for women?
  To what extent have these technologies impacted
  the perceptions of mens and womens roles in the
  economy, within marriage, and in society as a
  whole?
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