{"id":389,"date":"2016-06-15T03:07:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T03:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introductiontosociology-waymaker\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=389"},"modified":"2016-07-06T16:11:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T16:11:49","slug":"outcome-social-change","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/chapter\/outcome-social-change\/","title":{"raw":"Outcome: Technology Today","rendered":"Outcome: Technology Today"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Describe technology in a sociological context<\/h2>\r\nTechnology is the application of science to address the problems of daily life. The fast pace of technological advancement means the advancements are continuous, but that not everyone has equal access. The gap created by this unequal access has been termed the digital divide. 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The fast pace of technological advancement means the advancements are continuous, but that not everyone has equal access. The gap created by this unequal access has been termed the digital divide. The knowledge gap refers to an effect of the digital divide: the lack of knowledge or information that keeps those who were not exposed to technology from gaining marketable skills.<\/p>\n<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Define technology and describe its evolution<\/li>\n<li>Understand technological inequality and issues related to unequal access of technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Learning Activities<\/h3>\n<p>The learning activities for this section include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter type-1\">Reading: Introduction to Media and Technology<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter type-1\">Reading: Modern Technology<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter type-1\">Self-Check: Technology Today<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-389\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Objectives and Activities. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Sociology 2e. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: OpenStax CNX. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/02040312-72c8-441e-a685-20e9333f3e1d\/Introduction_to_Sociology_2e\">http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/02040312-72c8-441e-a685-20e9333f3e1d\/Introduction_to_Sociology_2e<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/02040312-72c8-441e-a685-20e9333f3e1d@3.49<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":29,"menu_order":9,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Objectives and Activities\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Sociology 2e\",\"author\":\"OpenStax CNX\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/02040312-72c8-441e-a685-20e9333f3e1d\/Introduction_to_Sociology_2e\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/02040312-72c8-441e-a685-20e9333f3e1d@3.49\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"89da156e-72be-4e2b-aa35-0e387acac701","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-389","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":387,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/389\/revisions\/2199"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/387"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/389\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}