Exam 16: Social Change: With Emphasis on Changing Environment

Identify a social change that has occurred in your lifetime. What sociological concepts can you draw upon to help you explain that change and its consequences?

Situations in which a previously rare (or seemingly rare)event, response, or opinion snowballs into something dramatically more common are known as

When sociologists study the potential human connection to climate change, they ask whic h one of the following questions?

North America has the highest per person carbon dioxide emissions from the consumption of energy generated from burning fossil fuels by region of the world. Africa has the lowest. In examining these figures sociologists would be most likely to ask

The unprecedented increase in the amount of stored data and messages transmitted through all forms of media is known as the

About 50 percent of the world's population lives in _______ environment.

___________ are particularly interested in ways changing climate is affecting interactions among Greenlanders.

_______________ movements seek to turn back the hands of time to an earlier condition or state of being.

Anthropologist Leslie White maintained that inventions control people. He supported this conclusion with the argument that

Sociology first emerged as a discipline attempting to understand an event that triggered dramatic and seemingly endless changes in every area of human life. That event was

Inventors may be geniuses, but they also must be born in the right place and at the right time; this means that

Highways and automobiles have created _____ and making it difficult to distinguish between city, suburbs, and nonurban environments

A society in which the use of fossil fuels shapes virtually every aspect of people's personal and social lives is a ______________ society.

"Of all discoveries and opinions, none may have exerted a greater effect on the human spirit than the doctrine of Copernicus. The world had scarcely become known as round and complete in itself when it was asked to waive the tremendous privilege of being the center of the universe. Never, perhaps, was a greater demand made on mankind-for by this admission so many things vanished in mist and smoke!" (Goethe 2004). This description describes

What is planned obsolescence? Do an inventory of items around your hose. List 10 items you expect to hang on to for life! List 10 items that will likely be discarded or become unusable within the next year.

When audiences hear on the nightly news that Santa Claus has left his North Pole home and is crossing Greenland and heading to the United States to deliver presents, they come to associate Greenland with the North Pole. This kind of learning process is known as

The ceaseless increases in production and, by extension, ceaseless consumption needed to sustain the global economy's success that is measured by increased profits is called the

What factors converged to create a hydrocarbon society? Which factors matter to you on a persona level -- that is, are they a part of your life? (e.g. McDonaldization, mechanization, etc)

_____ is the ever increasing flow of goods, services, money, people, information, and culture across political borders.

With regards to the dependence on fossil fuels, the sociological perspective is oriented towards answering which question?