%0 Journal Article %T Influ¨ºncia da sociedade no desenvolvimento tecnol¨®gico: um estudo das concep£¿£¿es de graduandos brasileiros do Estado de S£¿o Paulo %A Vizconde Veraszto %A Est¨¦fano %A da Silva %A Dirceu %A Barros Filho %A Jomar %A Assis de Miranda %A Nonato %A Garc¨ªa Garc¨ªa %A Francisco %A Ferreira do Amaral %A S¨¦rgio %A Oliveira Simon %A Fernanda %A Pires de Camargo %A Eder %J Revista iberoamericana de ciencia tecnolog£¿-a y sociedad %D 2011 %I Centro de Estudios sobre Ciencia, Desarrollo y Educaci¨®n Superior (REDES) %X trying to understand how society influences the individuals' views and attitudes towards technological development, we have developed a theoretical model, transformed into a likert scale to be applied to undergraduates brazilians in sao paulo state. the data analysis, using structural equation modeling (sem), showed that the surveyed sample indicates the government, educational and research institutions, companies and citizens, as social actors strictly responsible for technology choices. the data also helped to establish the initial bases for the discussion of public policies in education, making room for further work on technological education %K technology %K society %K indicators of public perception %K structural equation modeling. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1850-00132011000200009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en