NSES Content Standard F  Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Science and technology in society Grades 5-8, page 169 Technology influences society through its products and processes. Technology influences the quality of life and the ways people act and interact. Technological changes are often accompanied by social, political, and economic changes that can be beneficial or detrimental to individuals and to society. Social needs, attitudes, and values influence the direction of technological development.

 
Benchmark 3C The Nature of Technology: Issues in Technology
Grades 3-5, page 54
Technology has been part of life on the earth since the advent of the human species. Like language, ritual, commerce, and the arts, technology is an intrinsic part of human culture, and it both shapes society and is shaped by it. The technology available to people greatly influences what their lives are like.

Benchmark 3C The Nature of Technology: Issues in Technology
Grades 6-8, page 56
Technology has strongly influenced the course of history and continues to do so. It is largely responsible for the great revolutions in agriculture, manufacturing, sanitation and medicine, warfare, transportation, information processing, and communications that have radically changed how people live.

Benchmark 3C The Nature of Technology: Issues in Technology
Grades 6-8, page 56
Societies influence what aspects of technology are developed and how these are used. People control technology (as well as science) and are responsible for its effects.

Benchmark 6B The Human Organism: Human Development
Grades 9-12, page 134
Using artificial means to prevent or facilitate pregnancy raises questions of social norms, ethics, religious beliefs, and even politics.

Benchmark 6B The Human Organism: Human Development
Grades 9-12, page 134
The development and use of technologies to maintain, prolong, sustain, or terminate life raise social, moral, ethical, and legal issues.

Benchmark 7A Human Society: Cultural Effects on Behavior
Grades 6-8, page 155
Technology, especially in transportation and communication, is increasingly important in spreading ideas, values, and behavior patterns within a society and among different societies. New technology can change cultural values and social behavior.

Benchmark 10J Historical Perspectives: Harnessing Power
Grades 9-12, page 259
The Industrial Revolution increased the productivity of each worker but it also increased child labor and unhealthy working conditions, and it gradually destroyed the craft tradition. The economic imbalances of the Industrial Revolution led to a growing conflict between factory owners and workers and contributed to the main political ideologies of the 20th century.

Benchmark 10J Historical Perspectives: Harnessing Power
Grades 9-12, page 259
The Industrial Revolution is still underway as electric, electronic, and computer technologies change patterns of work and bring with them economic and social consequences.