[New Course] JUS 494: Science, Technology & InEquality
Schedule:
Tuesdays-Thursdays afternoon somewhere at ASU 
Professor:
Dr. Merlyna Lim
This course aims to introduce some conceptual and theoretical framework as well as provide empirical data that contribute to the understanding that science and technology are instrumental to the creation and maintenance of inequality within and between societies.
The starting point in this course is that science and technology do not merely cause or alleviate inequality but are more profoundly implicated in social relations to distribution and access. The more pervasive and obdurate sources of social distribution are enshrined and entrenched in the science and technology systems.
Inequality is the unequal distribution of something people value, such as income, health, or power. In this course, the term distribution is used in its dynamic meaning which refers to the process of producing and re-producing inequalities. The course is concerned with the roles that science and technology play in those processes and ways in which one can intervene to generate less unequal outcomes.
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Inequality, ‘innovative mind’, in sharing resources. How many ‘noble prizes’, or innovation in tech & sci from the developing (mythical) cultures?
More Blessed to Give Than Receive……
( also in sharing knowledge and resources)
By neon on 08.27.08 9:56 am
“understanding that science and technology are instrumental to the creation and maintenance of inequality within and between societies”.
An awesome subject, I would say if one should ask me. Just great you managed to launch this specific course. Good for you. Though it’s a pity that it’s no so practical for me to enroll.
But also shame on me. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. It never crossed my mind that this would be possible: inequality the subject matter at an US University. I urgently have have update some of my prejudices.
It’s even worse. I should have known. For last year’s course was in about the same category.
I wish you lots of success!
mer: many thanks for your support. you’re forgiven, hehe…. well, i am not the only person who deal with justice/injustice/inequality issue — in fact the whole school of Justice is about social inequality. Many US universities are among the most democratic places in the US (and in the world)…. universities here, though now, just like somewhere else, have to go through pushes of being sucked to the neo-liberal economy, still retain their existences to certain degree as the free-est place for emerging ideas…
By colson on 08.28.08 1:04 am
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