CSE 175: Social and Ethical Issues in Information Technolgy -
Fall 2003 Optional Makeup Homework Assignment  These questions
are optional, and you may do as few as you wish. They will
replace one homework set in which you got a low grade; please
indicate which set you wish to replace; you cannot get more
points than the number in the set you are replacing, so do not
do more problems than are in that set. The answers are due the
last day of class (3 December).    1. Discuss some limitations
of the so-called "production possibility frontier model," using
examples from McCain's webtext.   2. Explain why scientists are
justifiably reluctant to abandon a paradigm (in the sense of
Kuhn).   3. Explain reflexivity (in the sense of sociological
theorizing) and give details of an example from ANT.   4. State
Douglass North's definition of "institution" and give an example
related to the internet. Now relate your example to actor-
network theory, and contrast the viewpoints of neo-classical
economics and sociology of tec