Exam 13: Our Love-Hate Relationship With the Car: Masculinity, Industry, and Environmental Sustainability

Which of the following phenomena is relevant both to the treatment of cars as fashion products and to their environmental impact?

In a car culture, driving is to independence as car ownership is to:

Which of the following is NOT a focus of post-materialist critique of automobility?

Which of the following is a characteristic of Post-Fordism?

According to the textbook, systematic weakening of public transit systems in the 1930s U.S. was due to actions of:

The textbook points out that the endurance of the American car industry can be explained by the endurance of its:

What is meant by saying that the car facilitates both mobility and immobility?

Summarize the main findings of Walsh's study into the representation of women in American car advertising.

Research has found that young people appreciate driving primarily because it enables them to:

Define the critical features of automobility.

After WWII, the U.S. government made house purchases in suburbs more affordable than those in cities, by guaranteeing mortgages in the former, but not the latter. Which of the following features of automobility does this policy exemplify?

According to the textbook, which of the following is among the main positive symbolic associations of the car?

Why is it expected that the rate of car ownership in the global South will increase in the near future?

Even cities which would like to control traffic congestion find it difficult to do so, because past government decisions have weakened public transit systems and other alternatives to driving. Which of the following phenomena does this exemplify?

Which of the following is a synonym for "automobility"?

Mass production is to mass consumption as flexible production is to:

Which of the following is a feature of the sharing economy?

A "dream car" is an example of:

Which of the following processes enabled the transformation of the car from a luxury item to a widely accessible commodity?

Compare the conditions of employment in the American car manufacturing during the Fordist and post-Fordist periods of its development.