Over the past decades, relationships between science, technology and society have become increasingly important for the development of new curricula and practices in science education. This paper presents a framework based on "Das Kapital" for analyzing STS relations. It introduces fundamental concepts and propositions to understand how scientific and technological innovations are related to the production of capital and how to analyze this issue critically, since the technological revolutions these innovations imply may contribute to the subjection of the working class. This framework may be introduced in teacher education and STS curriculum planning aiming to reach some critical perspective on the relations of exploitation that underlie the capitalist mode of production.
STS Relations; Capitalism; Marxism
