Editing Science and technology studies (section)

====Classifications====

* [[Technological optimism]]<ref name="Hochschild, 2012">Hochschild, J., Crabill, A., & Sen, M. (2012, December 1). Technology Optimism or Pessimism: How Trust in Science Shapes Policy Attitudes toward Genomic Science. Retrieved March 20, 2015, from http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/msen/files/hochschild_crabill_sen.pdf</ref> – The opinion that technology has positive effects on society and should be used in order to improve the welfare of people.
* [[Dystopia#Science and technology|Technological pessimism]]<ref name="Hochschild, 2012"/> – The opinion that technology has negative effects on society and should be discouraged from use.
* Technological neutrality<ref name="Woodhouse, 2004"/> – "maintains that a given technology has no systematic effects on society: individuals are perceived as ultimately responsible, for better or worse, because technologies are merely tools people use for their own ends."
* [[Technological determinism]]<ref name="Woodhouse, 2004"/> – "maintains that technologies are understood as simply and directly causing particular societal outcomes."
* [[Scientism]]<ref name="Kleinman, 2005">Kleinman, D. (2005). Science is Political/Technology is Social: Concerns, Concepts, and Questions. Maryland: Blackwell.</ref> – The belief in the total separation of facts and values.
* Technological progressivism<ref name="Kleinman, 2005"/> – technology is a means to an end itself and an inherently positive pursuit.