Łódź, Poland

Business, Society and Technology

Bachelor's - engineer
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⇑Business, Society and Technology at PŁ

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: economy and administration
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: www.p.lodz.pl/en

⇑Test: Is Business, Society and Technology the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. A food delivery app changes the way restaurants near you operate. What do you think about?

2. A company plans to replace its customer service staff with an AI chatbot. How do you see it?

3. A start-up wants to make money while tackling food waste. How do you react?

4. Your courses mix economics, sociology, ethics and digital technology. How does that sound?

5. A social media platform collects users’ data to target adverts. What do you want to know?

6. There’s a class debate on whether remote work is good for society. How do you take part?

7. A company asks how new technology could reduce its carbon footprint. What would you do?

8. The programme is taught in English, in an international group. Discussions bring together students from many countries with different views on technology and society. How do you feel about it?

9. Your team is developing an app to connect volunteers with older people in a local community. What’s your focus?

10. What motivates you most to study Business, Society and Technology?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Business
Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling goods or services. Simply put, it is "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit. It does not mean it is a company, a corporation, partnership, or have any such formal organization, but it can range from a street peddler to General Motors." The term is also often used colloquially (but not by lawyers or public officials) to refer to a company, but this article will not deal with that sense of the word.
Society
A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent of members. In the social sciences, a larger society often evinces stratification or dominance patterns in subgroups.
Technology
Technology ("science of craft", from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia) is first robustly defined by Jacob Bigelow in 1829 as: "...principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the more conspicuous arts, particularly those which involve applications of science, and which may be considered useful, by promoting the benefit of society, together with the emolument [compensation ] of those who pursue them" .
Society
La Société est l'union des hommes, et non pas les hommes.
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
Business
Somewhere in the past. organizations were quite simple, and 'doing business' consisted of buying raw material from suppliers, converting into products, and selling it to customers... For the most part owner-entrepreneurs founded such simple business and worked along with members of their families. The family-dominated business still accounts for a large portion of the business start today.
R. Edward Freeman (2007) Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach p. 5
Society
The rout is Folly's circle, which she draws
With magic wand. So potent is the spell,
That none decoy'd into that fatal ring,
Unless by Heaven's peculiar grace, escape.
There we grow early gray, but never wise.
William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book II, line 627.
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