The Research About Habermas’ Ideology Of Science And Technology

As a great contemporary social scientists, a leader of the second generation of theFrankfurt School, Habermas inherited the basis of their predecessors in the theory of socialcriticism, insightful proposed " technology and science is ideology," this idea. Ti is not onlyto deepen the understanding of science and technology further, but also a profound reflectionon contemporary industrial society. He hold the position attitude in science and technology asthe productivity firstly, and then believed that science and technology at the same timeaccelerating the modernization of production become a defense of the existing capitalistideology, manifested in the depoliticization of the masses, scientific politics and technicalruling on three areas. Science and technology as ideology than the traditional ideologyshowed two distinct characteristics, namely a stronger and stronger defense of concealment.Science and technology through the digestion human thinking and the ability to make peoplerebel alienation, which shows a more powerful defense force. It’s hidden characteristicdigestions social crisis in the subtle, let it legitimize.Science and technology become an ideology by changing the traditional social structure,making it a stealth ideology to defend the current system. As the first productivity force,science and technology by changing the way that the social production of social andeconomic changes in the structure, so as to promote social development, and then it changethe political structure, to act as a role in the political superstructure, in the field of politics,science and technology’s ideology make it further developed as a class nature of societyideology. Its changing role in the economy, political structure and the structure ofconsciousness which is the way and root that science and technology become ideology. Itshould be acknowledged that this idea has its advanced and reality, science and technology asthe first productivity to meet the material needs of society and to promote economicdevelopment, which is worthy of vigorous development. And Science and Technologybecame the first productive forces is the ahead of its condition to become ideology, it’s roleschanging in the socio-economic structure, social political structure and social awareness structure among making it more obvious ideology. But Habermas’s theory also existlimitations, its science and technology and to confuse the concept of technology applications,as well as the fact that for the technical rational criticism obscures the principal contradictionin late capitalist society, both them are worthy of our depth reflection. We studied this ideaand the late capitalist social situation Habermas described, for the construction of China’scurrent industrialization transition is important. Learn the advantages of others and drawinghas some drawbacks, which is our ultimate goal.