Part one of term paper
Technologies' place in society has increased dramatically since the industrial revolution era. The public's view of technology has been one of positivism, meaning that science(technology) leads to progress and that progress, in return, is positive. Those countries which enjoy such technologies have formed ethnocentric ideals about themselv ...

Part two of term paper
... rather than advancing our world. Using tribal civilizations who had survived thousands of years only to be wiped out by technology, Bodley demonstrates the negative backlash that unregulated science can have. Industrialization societies are portrayed as being able to support all of their citizens and more, when in fact, nothing could be further from the truth. The reason that societies aid "undeveloped" countries is to gain access to their resources. Technological cultures are o ...