Exam 13: Technology, the Environment, and Social Movements

According to Charles Darwin, ruthless competition among individuals and species in the struggle for survival is the only effective long-term strategy.

Identify the role of environmental catastrophes in the willingness to resolve environmental problems.

Until the 1970s, many sociologists believed that the people who lead and first join social movements are likely to be which of the following?

Environmental problems are socially defined and socially distributed.

What does the fact that environmental issues can be defined as problematic or benign suggest?

What term is used for the process by which a group gains access to organizational, material, and other resources that enable it to engage in more collective action?

Most Canadians view environmental problems as real but, at the same time, as remote and abstract. According to the textbook, what effect does this have with respect to the implementation of strategies to resolve environmental degradation?

According to sociologists, people control technology as much as technology transforms people.

Solidarity theory proposes that governments can try to lower the frequency and intensity of protest using which of the following means?

What does the increased use of fossil fuels, especially in industry, cause?

Explain the importance of globalization in social movements occurring today and provide examples.

Identify two industrial disasters that occurred in the 1970s and the 1980s, and explain their impact on the modern perception of technology.

A group of single mothers protest cuts to welfare benefits. According to the textbook, what most likely sparked this action?

According to solidarity theory, collective action and social movements become effective when disadvantaged groups become more powerful. They also occur under which of the following circumstances?

Which of the following best supports the view that market forces alone CANNOT resolve environmental problems?

Discuss some of the reasons that people can argue that technology has led to improvements in the lives of humans in 2013.

Explain the relationship between development, environmental degradation, and being underprivileged in the underdeveloped nations of the world.

Which of the following terms is used by sociologists to characterize a situation in which people act in unison to bring about or resist social, political, and economic change?

Prior to the 1960s, social movements began as underprivileged groups attempting to broaden citizenship rights. Which of the following best describes their subsequent history?

According to relative deprivation theory, when are people most likely to rebel?