Jurnal Sosioteknologi

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Authors: Prima Roza

Membaca judul buku ini mungkin kita berharap bahwa ilustrasi bagian depannya akan berupa hamparan sawah dengan padi yang sedang menguning dan bukit hijau sebagai latar belakangnya. Namun kita menjadi tertarik untuk membacanya ketika kita disuguhi dengan gambar pantai yang indah dan sunyi, dengan latar belakang matahari yang sedang mengembang di ufuk timur. Barangkali memang inilah yang diharapkan oleh penggagas buku ini, bahwa ini bukanlah tentang pertanian semata, tetapi jauh lebih luas daripada itu. Judul buku ini menyiratkan gagasan kepada kita tentang upaya menjadikan kegiatan pertanian sebagai bagian peradaban bangsa.

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Authors: Asep Wawan Jatnika

The quality of text and reference books strongly influences the process and the output of education. The quality of books in this research refers to the level of readability. Based on the previous research to intermediate schools there were so many low readable books that affect the quality of education. With reference to the fact, the purpose of this research was to study and to assess the level of readability of basic science texts for the students of TPB-ITB, Including physics, chemistry, mathematics, and biology. By this research, the level of readability is expectedly found : low, medium, high. The test instruments used were the closure technique and the principle of closure. The closure technique is one of the test instruments with certain procedures, by selectively omitting words. The omitted words are those of the n-number, the fifth until the tenth. The texts that were adopted as the instrument of this research were 33 passages provided to the students of TPB-ITB as the respondents. The criteria of percentage in this closure technique research was of Rankin’s and Culhane’s. The result of this research was that the level of readability of basic science texts (physics, chemistry, mathematics, and biology) generally belonged to medium category (score : 46.83). The readability of physics texts was high (60.51), that of chemistry was medium (52), of biology medium (43.19), and of mathematics low (31.62). At a glance analysis (needs a further research), language is not the main factor for failing to comprehend the scientific texts. The shape and the small size of letter fonts (10) and the density of lines (1-1.5 space) is one of the causes of unexpected readability level.

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Authors: Chairil Siregar

Human beings have culture and with this, they can do any activities. However, the enculturization has deviated; man cannot adapt with the culture system on the social environment. This behavior has caused the nature phenomena evolve from the God’s destiny. As a civilized creature, man has done improper things, so it resulted in the culture imbalance. The material culture has moved much further than the nonmaterial culture; consequently, the natural disaster turn up.

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Authors: Acep Iwan Saidi

The unevenly distributed development can trigger a social and political conflict in local areas. The development that always supported the capitalists also created a gap, the corruption among the officials could never stop. The reformation that initially gave a hope to the people, yet it never comes true. The obvious success of reformation is only the freedom to talk, to gather, and to ally. However, the success has become a boomerang. This results in the pesimism among the intelectuals that reflects in some books. The situation has been worst by some natural disasters. Some people assume that it is closely related to the human behaviour. Both positive and negative political and social situation are unable to detach from the effect in global level, self-image, and mentality.