SOC SC 102
Technology, Power, and Society
Description
Lecture, three and one half hours; discussion, one hour. Recommended requisite: course 101. Consideration of the ways in which data, data science, and datafication have developed. By foregrounding data as a central organizing theme in contemporary politics, economics, and knowledge-making, study prepares students to understand current phenomena by examining their historical precedent, methodological, and theoretical underpinnings. Drawing from multiple disciplines, exploration of topics such as the histories of data and datafication; the making of technological systems; science and technology as sources of social power and authority; race, gender, postcolonial, and intersectional approaches; regulatory and policy interventions; and public engagement with data and technology. P/NP or letter grading.
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