Vol 13 No 1 (2014), Articles
Submitted: 02-04-2014
Accepted: 20-05-2014
Published: 14-07-2014
This article suggest that the Spanish public opinion shares a linguistically pre-comprehension regarding the relationships among the technology and society which can be considered as pointing to “determinism”. With this objective, the quantitative data of this determinist perception are searched through a series of surveys of different years (1982-2012) which previously have been subjected to a critical analysis. From the two premises and three corollaries that define the determinist thesis according to John M. Staudenmaier, it is claimed that — taken on the whole — the quantitative data seem to indicate that the Spanish public opinion holds a social (determinist) perception of the technology-society relationships taking root in the two premises and in, at least, the first and third corollaries.
technological determinism, technology and social change, social imaginary, sociology of technology, social perception of technology