THE CTS STUDIES AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANDREW FEENBERG'S TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to give a brief presentation of the CTS (Science, Technology and Society) studies, a field of research dedicated, among others, to the critical and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interaction between science, technology and society, questioning the perspective that presupposes a linear relation between them and, therefore, questioning the myths of the neutrality of science and technological determinism. We will also present theoretical propositions of the philosopher Andrew Feenberg, especially his approach on the need for "democratization of technology", since, according to Feenberg, technology is an essentially social phenomenon, which allows us to think of an alternative model of rationalizing society towards to forms characterized by democracy and not by authoritarian control.