История технологического развития общества

2026/2027

Статус: Маго-лего

Кто читает: Департамент образовательных программ

Где читается: Институт статистических исследований и экономики знаний

Охват аудитории: для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ

Язык: русский

Кредиты: 3

Контактные часы: 32

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Аннотация

The subject of this course is the interplay of technological development with cultural and political aspects of societies. The first part covers ancient civil and military technologies and reflects on early forms of human organizations of society in light of trade and war. The course then progresses with the emergence of the inventor in the time of the Renaissance and then pro- gresses to the Industrial Revolution and the far-reaching consequences of the emergence of the factory for human lives. In the second part, the course covers various sectors that shaped the 19th and 20th centuries, such as electricity and electronics, automobile design and manufacturing and the electronic gaming industry. The course offers a critical approach to technological determinism and concludes with an outlook on the future ways of interaction between technologies and societies.

Цель освоения дисциплины

To study how technological and societal development have influenced and nourished each other.
To cover episodes of mechanization, communications, electronics, computers, power & energy, or military technology.
To build on historical examples of technological development and societal change and comments and reflects on the two latest major publications on the subject.

Планируемые результаты обучения

Naming some of the key innovations and understanding the far-reaching social changes introduced by the industrial revolution
Understanding how the emerging technologies changed the view of the human and the natural, naming and dating some of the most important technological developments
Understanding the importance of the space race and the associated technological breakthroughs
Understanding the role of design and technology in consumer culture
Understanding the role of niche markets in driving technological development
Understand the interplay of civil and military technologies

Содержание учебной дисциплины

Topic 1. From the emergence of Homo Sapiens to the Middle ages
Topic 2. Technology and war: from ancient warfare to the Renaissance engineers
Topic 3. The telescope, the heliocentric worldview, the printing press and the measurement of time
Topic 4. The laws of motion, universal gravitation, and electricity.
Topic 5. The industrial revolution: The mechanization of the production process and the rise of the factory.
Topic 6. The history of space exploration: Sputnik, the Apollo missions, the space race and new horizons.
Topic 7. The history of car design: The Benz Motorcar, muscle and silhouette cars, and the most successful series of mass-produced cars.
Topic 8. The history of electronic games: From arcade games to youth culture, Massive Online Games and Virtual Reality.

Элементы контроля

Оnline assessment during the first block
Online assessment during the second block
Online assessment during the third block
Online assessment during the fourth block
Written exam
Оnline assessment during the fifth block

Промежуточная аттестация

2026/2027 3rd module
0.1 * Online assessment during the third block + 0.1 * Оnline assessment during the first block + 0.1 * Online assessment during the fourth block + 0.1 * Оnline assessment during the fifth block + 0.1 * Online assessment during the second block + 0.5 * Written exam

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Авторы

Тернер Томас

Программа дисциплины