科学技术与社会(STS)——人类把握现代世界的一种基本方式

Science Technology and Society(STS)——An Elementary Mode of Grasping Mordern Society

科学技术与社会(STS)把科学和技术放到(本来就在)社会生产(物质生产、精神生产、社会关系生产等)和生活(物质生活、政治生活、精神生活等)中,把本来就由科学、技术参与或支撑的社会生产、生活视为(本来就是)科学、技术的活动场域、生成条件和整合基础。这种思维方式具有重要的认识论启示,它深刻地揭示了人类科技认识的选择性、人本性、时空性和相对性,充分表明在科技全球化时代,科学技术与社会(STS)是人类把握现代世界的一种基本方式。

Science technology and society（ STS ）replaces science and technology in scocial production （material pro- duction, spiritual production and social relationship production, etc. ）and real life （material life, political life, and spiritual life, etc. ）, and takes social production and life, which are constituted and suported by science and technol- ogy, as the place for scientific and technological activities, the condition for science and technology to come into be- ing and the basis for us to integrate them. This mode of thinking plays an important role in the inspiration of episte- mology. It reveals deeply the selectivity, human essentiality, space time and technology. It also indicates that in the days of the globalization of ing is a basic way for man to grasp the modem world. and relativity of our understanding of science science and technology, STS＇ mode of think-