Exam 22: Social Change and the Environment

What was the impetus for each of the four social revolutions?

Who was the historian who hypothesized that all societies reach a peak and then decline?

What are green parties and how effective are they in achieving their goals?

What did historian James Flink cite as the primary reason women were transformed from producers of food and clothing to consumers of national-brand canned goods, prepared foods, and ready-made clothes?

What evidence is there to support the notion that ethnic conflict threatens the geopolitics of the G8?

The U.S. government's special command unit, AFRICOM, currently utilized to help secure our dominance over an oil-rich Africa as a rapid response military force, was originally designed to specialize in humanitarian missions such as brining medical assistance to Africa.

Cultural lag was a term coined by William Ogburn to refer to a situation in which some parts of a culture adapt to an invention or discovery more rapidly than other parts.

Changes in social organizations, ideologies, conspicuous consumption, and social relationships are attributed to technology.

When the Group of 8 becomes the Group of 9, who will be the ninth member of this powerful international organization?

The most uniformly applicable description of technology is that it ________.

According to Karl Marx, capitalism was responsible for the masses moving from the country to the city.

What was a "night rider?"

In the realignment of the world's powers after World War II, the center of the European component of the realignment became ________.

What was the impetus for the development of modernization?

What is the goal of environmental sociology?

On average, one tribe of Amazonian Indians has been lost each year of the twentieth century. What is the fundamental explanation for this destruction?

Discovery will always bring extensive change to a society because it introduces new technology and cultural progress.

How does technology reshape a society? What are the four ways that technology reshapes a society? Define each.

Individuals who are trying to protect the environment by slashing the tires of trucks used to transport lumberjacks and vandalizing their equipment are engaged in a practice called ________.

How did the automobile change a woman's role from being a producer of food and clothing to a consumer of national-brand goods and ready-made clothes?