知識與社會實踐有什麼關係？這是最近社會系學生們關注的話題。本課程打破傳統「是否走出象牙塔？」與知識/社會實踐的二元對立，強調沒有經過社會生活與社會實踐的「測試」與粹鍊，理論上思辯經常落入書空咄咄與虛無主義。本課程試圖將同學帶入更靠近常民生活的世界，面對現實受苦的人們與社會運動組織者的想法，藉此減少知識份子與常民生活的隔閡。唯有更貼近常民生活與社會運動者的處境，才能在個人以及集體層次上抗衡主流意識形態的支配。進而，基進化我們所學的社會學內涵。本課程以三個主題為台灣社會問題案例：1.反核與核電科技；2. 美國無線電公司RCA與電子產業女工職業病問題；3. 動物福利與動物權。
本課程將盡可能請到與社會議題相關的NGO工作者，談談自己在行動過程中遇到什麼問題，如何面對國家與科技官僚以看似中立客觀的意識型態進行治理，而這種科學數字的治理卻可能有許多特定政治立場的介入，例如，核電數字迷思、RCA與台灣經濟奇蹟背後的問題。同時，本課程以科技與社會（STS）與社會運動為主要理論依據，以科學爭議、科學不確定性、技術物的政治性、流行病學的爭議等問題，切入台灣社會問題，並以社會運動者與RCA受害者等經驗為基礎，瞭解社會運動者如何介入這類爭議，翻轉跨國企業或國家、科技官僚的支配。
第一週，老師與同學會共同討論出一份可供同學使用的教材或資料。我們設定三個社會與環境科技主題：1.RCA科學爭議與RCA工人訴訟（七零年代美國跨國公司RCA留下大量的工廠污染導致工人生病）、2. 動物福利與素食主義。此議題也關係到全球暖化、素食主義、氣候變遷議題，而課程會從生態女性主義、環境運動、動物與人的關係等理論，連結到動物福利問題；3.核電問題。課程以小組/個人深度調查方式進行此三個議題的研究，分組進行調查並找資料之外，最後目標為，做出一份深度的調查報告（公民新聞記者）與Q&A/懶人包（或刊物），以累積學期的成果。
What is the relationship between knowledge and social practice? This is a topic that has been paid attention to by social science students recently. This course breaks the traditional "Whether to step out of the ivory tower?" and knowledge/social reality, and emphasizes that there is no "test" and schizophrenia in social life and social reality. In theory, thinking often falls into the empty and impolite. This course trial will bring students into a world closer to the lives of the common people, facing the ideas of real suffering people and social sports organizations, thereby reducing the separation between intellectuals and common people's lives. Only by being closer to the situation of ordinary people's lives and social sportsmen can we compete with the dominance of mainstream ideological forms in individual and collective levels. In this way, we fundamentally evolve the social connotation we have learned. This course uses three topics to serve as social problems in Taiwan: 1. Anti-nuclear and nuclear technology; 2. Faced with female employees of the US wireless company RCA and electronics industry; 3. Animal welfare and animal rights.
This course will ask NGO workers related to social discussion questions to discuss what problems they encounter during their actions and how to deal with seemingly neutral and objective conscious attitudes toward national and technological bureaucrats. The governance of scientific numbers may involve many specific political positions, such as the problems behind nuclear digital myths, RCA and Taiwan’s economic miracle. At the same time, this course takes science and society and society (STS) and social movement as the main theoretical basis, and uses scientific disputes, scientific uncertainty, political nature of technology, and epidemic disputes to enter Taiwan social problems. It also uses experiences such as social movements and RCA victims as the basis to understand how social movements intervene in this type of dispute and translate the domination of transnational enterprises or countries and technology bureaucrats.
In the first week, the teacher and his classmates discussed a textbook or information that could be used by the classmates. We set three social and environmental technology themes: 1. RCA scientific disputes and RCA workers’ complaints (the US multinational company RCA left a large amount of factory pollution in the 1970s, which caused workers to get sick), 2. Animal welfare and vegetarianism. This question also relates to global warming, vegetarianism, climate change discussions, and the course links animal welfare issues from theories such as ecology feminism, environmental movement, and the relationship between animals and people; 3. Nuclear power issues. The course conducts research on these three topics in a small/personal in-depth survey method. In addition to conducting surveys and finding information, the final goal is to make an in-depth survey report (citizen news reporter) and Q&A/public package (or publication) to accumulate the results of the academic period.
1. 大衛・艾傑頓著，李尚仁譯，2016，《老科技的全球史》（The Shock of the Old: Technolohy and global history since 1900）。左岸文化。
2. 《科技醫療與社會》期刊，2011，第十二期（RCA專題）。其中林宜平「死了幾位電子廠女工之後：有機溶劑的健康風險爭議」。
3. 工作傷害受害人協會, 原台灣美國無線公司員工關懷協會，《拒絕被遺忘的聲音：RCA工殤口述史》。行人出版社。
4. Klein, Naomi 著、林鶯譯，《天翻地覆：資本主義vs.氣候危機》。時報出版。
5. 王文基、王秀雲、郭文華，2012，《意外多重奏：STS如何重組真相》。行人。
6. 泰德・史密斯、大衛・桑那菲、大衛・佩洛著，2014，《挑戰晶片：全球電子業的勞動權與環境正義》。群學。
7. 何明修、李宗義、杜文苓、周桂田、林子倫、范玫芳、高淑芬、張國暉、蔡宏政著，2015、《臺灣風險十堂課：食安、科技、環境》－2015年度風險分析報告)。其中第五堂課「核四爭議」（何明修）與第七堂「石化空污管制困境與社區行動科學的啟發」（杜文苓）第十堂課「電磁輻射風險」（高淑芬）。
1. David Eddie Lee, 2016, The Shock of the Old: Technolohy and global history since 1900. Left Bank Culture.
2. Journal of Science and Technology Medicine and Society, 2011, Issue 12 (RCA topic). Among them, Lin Yiping "after several female electronic factory workers died: health risks disputes about organic solvents."
3. Work Injury Victims Association, former Taiwan-US wireless company employee and employee consultation meeting, "Sounds that Refused to Be Forgotten: Oral History of RCA Works". Pedestrian Publishing House.
4. Klein, Naomi, translated by Lin Bao, "The Earth-turning: Capitalism vs. Climate Crisis". Timely Publishing.
5. Wang Wenji, Wang Xiuyun, Guo Wenhua, 2012, "Accidental Multiple: How STS Reassembles the Truth". pedestrian.
6. Ted Smith, David Sannafi, David Pelo, 2014, "Challenge of the chips: The Power and Environmental Rights of the Global Electronics Industry". Group studies.
7. Written by He Mingxiu, Li Zongyi, Du Wenling, Zhou Guitian, Lin Zilun, Fan Meifang, Gao Shufen, Zhang Guoxi, and Cai Hongzheng, 2015. "Taiwan Risk Ten Classes: Food Safety, Technology, and Environment" - 2015 Annual Risk Analysis Report). Among them, the fifth class, "The Fourth Nuclear Controversy" (He Mingxiu) and the seventh class, "The Dilemma of Petrochemical Air Pollution Control and the Initiation of Community Operations Science" (Du Wenling), the tenth class, "Electromagnetic Radio Risk" (Gao Shufen).
| 評分項目 Grading Method | 配分比例 Grading percentage | 說明 Description |
|---|---|---|
| 期中考期中考 Midterm exam |
20 | |
| 期末報告書面期末報告書面 Final report |
30 | |
| 平時成績平時成績 Regular achievements |
18 | |
| memo4篇memo4篇 Memo4 articles |
32 |
