Exam 16: Social Change: With Emphasis on Changing Environment

Karl Marx argued that ________ "chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe."

During the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, European and American whalers killed tens of thousands of whales in Arctic waters for commercial purposes, with little effective resistance from environmental or animal rights groups. Today, whaling is a highly monitored activity subject to quotas. This change in reaction to whaling suggests that

The tipping point is

During World War II hundreds of thousands of soldiers were injured by machine gun shrapnel. The need to restore lost blood resulting from these injuries motivated doctors to create a system of collecting and preserving blood plasma. This dynamic supports the idea that

For many people, the idea that animals, rocks and plants should be treated with respect is a new idea. In this sense it is a

___________ involves producing goods that are disposable after a single use, have a shorter life cycle than the industry is capable of producing, or go out of style quickly even though the goods can still serve their purpose.

Ralf Dahrendorf wrote "It is immeasurably difficult to trace the path on which a person…encounters other people just like himself, and at a certain point says 'Let us join hands, friends, so that no-one will push us off one by one.'" Dahrendorf was writing about

The Petition Project seeks to challenge other social movements that demand reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. This desire to maintain an existing social order suggests that the Petition Project is a ____________________ movement.

To stay in "fashion" many people buy a new car even though their old car is still in excellent-to-good condition. Similarly, people tend to buy new clothes before they wear out the clothes they already have. Such actions speak to

Pharmacies, banks, and car washes have adopted "drive-thru" services to facilitate their goal of moving customers from one state of being to another quickly. This strategy speaks to which one of the following McDonaldization principles?

_______________ is a fossil fuel-driven phenomenon because the energy to manufacture, deliver, operate, and eventually haul away appliances and other products after they become obsolete comes from burning fossil fuels.

_________________ is any significant alteration, modification, or transformation in the organization and operation of social life.

Each "upgrade" of the 1903 Wright Flyer (the first successful airplane)increased the airplane's capacity to fly farther, higher, faster, and with more passengers. Upgrades are equivalent to

Refrigerators, ovens, washers, and dryers built since 2000 are expected to last 8-12 years, while those built in the 1970s and 1980s lasted 20 years or more. This shift in product life is an example of

"We invent the automobile to get us between two points faster, and suddenly we find we have to build new roads. And that means we have to invent traffic regulations... and then we have to invent a whole new organization called the highway patrol." This assessment supports the idea that

The transformative process whereby people move away from sparsely populated rural environments to densely populated urban ones is known as

Leslie White maintains that __________ is tied to the size of the cultural base.

Imagine you are doing a presentation on Greenland about how changing climate is effecting the people who live there. What five changes to Greenland would you emphasize?

The government of Greenland joined with four large corporations to create an export promotion strategy and an international branding strategy for the country. Sociologists classify such corporations as _________ organizations.

Leslie White maintains that if an invention is to come into being, the inventor must