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| Determined by Max Weber to be the most important control tecnology of his age. Non-elected officials that implement rules, laws, and functions of their institution. |
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| Famous argument about "two cultures". Sciences and humanities had split into tow separate worlds. |
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| Help learning about women's health, how to find a job if you had been a homemaker for years, divorce, abortion, and family law. |
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| Over-industrialization of heavy infusions of capital for the exploitation of fossil fuels, wage labor, and machine technology and resulted in larger and more complex systems. |
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| Process of social and economic change in a region due to the reduction of indusrial activity. |
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| Worked for the census bureau's Population Division to devise a mechanical tabulation system. |
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| Part of the U.S. economy associated with the production and distribution of knowledge. |
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| A set of standards that are needed to enable different machines and devices to communicate with each other. |
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| The architecture of a network, how they are assembled or arranged. |
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| a 'communal' society in which the social unit is the community rather than the individual |
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| the lower social class, or the working class of a society. |
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| idea that control can be increased not only by increasing the capability to process information but also by decreasing the amount of information to be processed |
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| artificial intelligence that allowed for natural language interaction with a computer under narroly cirumscribed conditions |
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| understanding how people interact within networks |
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| a new material basis for time-sharing on which the dominant scoia processes are reoganized and managed through flows |
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| Spanish-English Biliteracy |
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| being literate in both Spanish and English. |
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| a step by step procedure for calculations. Social networks use algorithms to communicate through computer programming |
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| happens when money or assets flow out of a region or country because of an event of economic consequence |
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| a framework of entities and the relationships between them. |
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| Author of "The Information Age". Believed that the network society depended on cities. |
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| the material basis of constant flows of information, goods, and people. Built upon wires, airports, highways that connect places and activities. |
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| Committee that found that books were more valuable and were more needed. Resulted in wanting a people's university funded by state and local government. |
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| Federal agency that collected socioeconomic data about specific regions in the United States. Documented increasing diversivication of the US economy. |
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| learning to be literate for the sake of economic growth and development. |
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| concurrence of opinions, ideas |
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| directly effected by the flow of information and the transfer of the American labor force from manufacturing to knowledge production and control. |
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| sector of the economy that provides services such as food production, cleaning, repair etc. |
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| visual indicators of population change, population desity maps, center of population caluculation. |
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