Exam 15: Social Change and the Environment

In the 1920s,who was the German high school teacher who wrote The Decline of the West and proposed that Western civilization had passed its peak and was in decline?

What are the positive and negative impacts ecosabotage can have,not only on the ecosaboteurs and environment,but also on consumers who are uninvolved?

Explain the relationship between the clearing of the rain forests and the loss of knowledge.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of distance learning to the student?

According to Marx,human history shows that struggle develops between the thesis and its antithesis,leading to a synthesis. Marx called this historical change a(n)________.

What name is given to political parties whose central issue is the environment and the practice of responsible ecology?

Which group of theories postulates all societies follow the same path from the simpler to the more complex form?

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

Of the following,the MOST important threat to global control by the G8,the group of nations that decide world policy,is the ________.

The theories that propose societies may take different routes,but eventually lead to the same stage of development,are ________ theories.

Technology is the driving force behind social change.

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union was an example of a redemptive social movement.

The rain forests are home to which percentage of all the Earth's plant and animal species?

What are the five stages of social movements?

-There is a plan by the government to consolidate the most dangerous hazardous waste dumps to a sparsely populated western state and to transfer the most dangerous waste to this site for storage. After examining Figure 15.3,"The Worst Hazardous Waste Sites," develop a set of reasons why this plan has merit. On the other hand,develop a set of reasons why the plan is ill conceived.

Why do Gesellschaft societies emphasize formal education and career ladders so much more than the Gemeinschaft societies?

According to the concept environmental injustice,what two groups are affected the most by pollution?

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

Courses taught to students who are not physically present with their instructors are what kind of courses?

Which of the following individuals has the most likelihood of being exposed to pollution,hazardous waste,and pesticides?