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STS provides insight into how technology, science, and knowledge are developed and understood from social and cultural perspectives. It examines the intellectual, material, and social aspects of STEM fields and how scientific knowledge is produced and changes over time. STS research also explores the societal impacts of new technologies and how materials and devices are designed, developed, adopted, and influenced by their environments.

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STS provides insight into how technology, science, and knowledge are developed and understood from social and cultural perspectives. It examines the intellectual, material, and social aspects of STEM fields and how scientific knowledge is produced and changes over time. STS research also explores the societal impacts of new technologies and how materials and devices are designed, developed, adopted, and influenced by their environments.

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Importance of STS
Technology, science and knowledge are important in modern contemporary society. The understanding of
how social, cultural and material elements influence the production of new practices, new ways of
understanding and new institutions is vital in our understanding of contemporary postmodern society. Studies
of technology and science provides students with insight into how different processes of knowledge are
initiated and progressed, and how innovative technological processes are developed, employed and increase
in importance. Studies of technology and science gives insight into the understanding and knowledge of
technology, science and knowledge from the viewpoint of the humanities and the social sciences.

Uses of STS
The Science, Technology, and Society (STS) program supports research that uses historical, philosophical, and
social scientific methods to investigate the intellectual, material, and social facets of the scientific,
technological, engineering and mathematical (STEM) disciplines. It encompasses a broad spectrum of STS
topics including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance, and policy issues that are closely related
to STEM disciplines, including medical science. STS research focuses on the intellectual, material, and social
facets of STEM. Such research endeavors to understand how scientific knowledge is produced and sanctioned,
and how it is challenged and changes. It explores broader societal ramifications and underlying
presuppositions. STS research studies how materials, devices, and techniques are designed and developed;
how and by whom they are diffused, used, adapted, and rejected; how they are affected by social and cultural
environments; and how they influence quality of life, culture, and society.

Nature of STS

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