• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.1 no.1 s.1
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• pp.29-50
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• 2001

When 'rational' is understood to be 'complying with the principles of reason', we can discern two kinds of rationality---one is what may be called 'instrumentally rationality', which is involved in achieving an already fixed goal most effectively, and the other 'goal-directed' rationality, which we should have recourse to in finding out the desirable goals. The critical situations in the age of science is thought to be closely related with the fact that the 'goal-directed' rationality has been discarded as nonsensical. The goal-directed rationality was dealt a severe blow in the latter part of the last century, when the rationality of science was challenged by the scientific relativists. This paper investigates the possibility of making sense of the goal-directed rationality in the modern age of science.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.30 no.3 s.334
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• pp.28-29
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• 1997

기술이 그 소임을 완벽하게 다하지 못하면 사고나 사건이 되고 그 부실을 탓하게 된다. 이런 물리적 잘못은 가려내기도 어렵지않고 회복도 가능하다. 부실은 객관적 합리성이나 옳고 정확한 것을 도외시하는 차원에서 생긴다. 과학기술의 특성은 정책수립 차원이나 기획차원에서부터 지켜져야 한다. 수요의 유효성ㆍ타당성, 물자나 인력의 수급성, 예산과 공정의 정당성 등을 정확하고 합리적으로 따져야 한다.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.3 no.1 s.5
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• pp.1-17
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• 2003

Though science and technology can understood as a part of cultural system, the relationship of science/technology with culture is often viewed as contradictory or mutually exclusive by many scholars. Therefore, in the first section of the present paper, the nature of science and technology as a cultural form is examined. Here, science is viewed as a form of symbolic culture, while technology is regarded as a form of instrumental culture. In the second section, the contradictory relationship and/or tensions between science-technological system (instrumental culture) and cultural system (symbolic culture) within a society is discussed. In the final section of this paper, 'science culture' is conceptualized as a dynamic social process in which contradictory science sub-cultures of political system(state), economic system(cooperations), civil society (including academic community of scientists and other social organizations and movements), and cultural system are supposed to be coordinated. In conclusion, establishment of 'humanized science culture' and 'democratic science-culture movement' is proposed as an alternative way of resolving contradictory relationship between cultural system and science-technological system in the modern world.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.31 no.7 s.350
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• pp.90-91
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• 1998

우리가 지금 겪고 있는 국난은 경제를 잘못 이끌어 왔기 때문이다. 그런데 경제가 잘못된 것은 취약한 과학기술 탓고 있다. 그동안 나름대로 과학기술수준의 향상은 있었지만 도입과 모방위주로 창조적인 자주기술력의 양성이 미흡했다. 실천과 합리성 존중, 철저하나 실증성 등의 기술정신은 오늘의 국난극복을 위해 꼭 필요하다.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.333-341
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• 2024

So far, the rationality of management decisions has been limited to the economic rationality of maximizing self-interest. However, management rationality in the ESG era, which pursues the interests of the environment, society, and the company from the perspective of harmony and balance, requires new judgment standards. The goal of ESG management is sustainable development. Sustainable development goes beyond the accumulation of wealth, which was the goal of the past economy, and aims for the happiness of the entire society, including coexistence and fair development that develops together with the entire society. From Aristotle's perspective, the happiness of the entire society promoted by sustainable development is no different from the highest good of citizens, members of the community. Accordingly, this paper attempted to explore the new management rationality required for managers in the ESG era by comparing Aristotle's concept of citizenship with the concept of 'corporate citizenship', one of the main concepts of ESG management. Through this, we sought to show that companies are essentially communal entities and that the company's pursuit of profit requires rationality of balance and harmony with environmental and social interests.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.181-216
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• 2013

This paper tries to analyze technologies of search engine generally, and reveal the additional modes of Korean search engine at the same time. Recently it said that search engine becomes a self-moving and is getting more strong power than the former one existed. There are many difference interpretative views from technological determination to instrumentalism surrounding this system. Search engine invents the technological mode that draws user's attention to make its own expertise reinforce. It is stemmed from the rationality of its own. Especially Korean search engine exposed unique mutation as self-proliferation of it during past a decade, as for example "related keyword" or "real-time popular keyword" service. Its automatic decision aroused democracy matter, now it is not only web guide. How we do make it to serve in democracy, accepting the independent expertise of it simultaneously? We might find new prospect when focusing on interactional modality between engine and human actor, instead counting both as a separate one.

• The Science & Technology
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• s.511
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• pp.100-101
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• 2011

• The Science & Technology
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• s.529
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• pp.46-49
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• 2013

• The Science & Technology
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• s.501
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• pp.78-79
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• 2011

• The Science & Technology
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• no.11 s.462
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• pp.96-97
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• 2007