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Sociology in Action
Quiz 15: Saving the Environment
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Question 1
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Sociologists consider environmental problems to be first and foremost ______ problem(s) .
Question 2
Multiple Choice
Which term refers to the practice of meeting current development needs, while taking into consideration future generations and not compromising their future?
Question 3
Multiple Choice
A recent college graduate is interested in working in a profession that focuses on social and environmental interaction. Which field would she likely consider?
Question 4
Multiple Choice
Researchers have developed a program that measures how many planet Earths are needed to provide the resources humanity is using. This ecological yardstick is called the ecological ______.
Question 5
Multiple Choice
Based on food consumption, energy use, transportation, and so on., in order to sustain our current consumption level the world would need how many planet Earths?
Question 6
Multiple Choice
The concept developed by footprint analysis scholars, "overshoot," is best described as ______.
Question 7
Multiple Choice
A researcher finds population growth exceeds the Earth's resources. How would an environmental sociologist explain the impact of sustainable development on this issue?
Question 8
Multiple Choice
How would a conference on world hunger react to our current ecological footprint?
Question 9
Multiple Choice
A conference focusing on the production of food argues that resources are depleting at a rate that is greater than the rate of resource regeneration. This is called ______.
Question 10
Multiple Choice
Which action demonstrates sustainable development?
Question 11
Multiple Choice
Which statement explains why it is important to think and act sociologically in response to environmental problems?
Question 12
Multiple Choice
A person working on an advertisement for a major oil company creates false information about fossil fuels' impact on the climate. Scholars would call this person ______.
Question 13
Multiple Choice
When a sociologist focuses on the role of ideology and knowledge when understanding environmental conditions, the research is using which type of analysis?
Question 14
Multiple Choice
According to environmental historian Bill Cronon, people tend to view nature as pristine, pure, and untouched by humans. Cronon noted this is a product of America's ______.
Question 15
Multiple Choice
What is an example of the social construction of nature?
Question 16
Multiple Choice
In the 1950s, Chinese ruler Mao Zedong viewed humans and nature as two separate entities and encouraged "man" to conquer nature, leading to large-scale environmental damage. This period was known as the ______.
Question 17
Multiple Choice
In order to make sense of environmental concern, sociologists Riley Dunlap, William Catton, and colleagues came up with the paradigm shift theory, in which two sets of worldviews exist. What is one of these worldviews?