Contemporary Socio-Technical Environment

Running head: SOCIO-TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT
Contemporary Socio-Technical Environment
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SOCIO-TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT
SLOGAN: “TECHNOLOGY addressing SUSTAINABILITY because it owes to
SOCIETY”
Socio Technical development is simplifying work design in terms of the complex societal
infrastructures and behavior of human beings. Socio technical systems help in the process of
evaluating and optimizing social aspects which are associated with technology and
organizational performance. Society and technology are interrelated. It involves an
understanding of interrelatedness of social and technical aspects of technological systems. The
methodological and theoretical approaches focus on exploring the aspects which include
professional, organizational, technical and cultural interrelation. It intends to identify the
relevance between technical and social developments as a balance needs to be struck between
them. The technical practices of the contemporary world show traits of de-humanizing effect on
the environment and society, as a whole.
Several studies aim at addressing the complexities of socio-technical designs. The need to
broaden the perspective and scopes for socio-technical developments in order to promote
sustainability has increased over time. In the contemporary times, critics have raised questions
about the interconnectivity between environment and social technical systems (Nieminen &
Hyytinen, 2015). The Socio Technical approaches aim at focusing on the stimuli of the
environment with soft aspects focusing on the deficits.
According to Marx, mechanical sublime can be regarded as the nature of industrial
machines which are large and divine. It soon witnessed a shift from the mechanical to electronic,
as the need changed. The technological sublime underwent evolution as time advanced and
society and its demands changed. However, electricity, nuclear reactors and other inventions
related to technology has proved to mankind its effects on society and environment in numerous
ways. They have yielded to results which have left disastrous results on the environment and