El determinismo tecnológico en la opinión pública española

Abstract

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.