Deck 11: Mobilizing the Ecological Society

Question 1

The dialogue of solidarities is comprised of which of the following?

A) The solidarity of interests and the solidarity of sentiments
B) The solidarity of interests and the solidarity of individualism
C) The solidarity of sentiments and the solidarity of rational choice
D) The solidarity of rational choice and the solidarity of individualism

Answer 1

A

Question 2

About how many hours do Americans currently waste in sitting in traffic each year?

A) 1 billion hours
B) 5 billion hours
C) 10 billion hours
D) 50 billion hours

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following phrases best characterizes the tragedy of the commons?

A) The dialogue of solidarities
B) The problem of government regulation
C) The tragedy of individualism
D) Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY)

Answer 3

C

Question 4

An important aspect of building both community and a dialogue of solidarities is:

A) self-interest.
B) other-interest.
C) trust.
D) all of the above.

Question 5

Which of the following is meant by "double politics"?

A) Grassroots organizing and top-down authority
B) Collective and individual action
C) Conflict and consensus
D) Conceptions and connections

Question 6

Which theorist was concerned with the problem of collective action?

A) Garrett Hardin
B) Bruno Latour
C) Ray Murphy
D) Saul Alinsky

Question 7

That which we can safely disregard-which is central to what we consider important-can be termed:

A) the ignorable.
B) a phenomenological rupture.
C) conceptions.
D) connections.

Question 8

Which of the following are components of frame alignment, wherein an individual's frames become congruent or complementary with a particular knowledge cultivation?

A) Frame bridging
B) Frame amplification
C) Frame extension
D) All of the above

Question 9

According to Aristotle's The Art of Rhetoric, which of the following terms is characterized by "getting the audience to feel that the speaker is ethical and trustworthy"?

A) Pathos
B) Logos
C) Ethos
D) All of the above

Question 10

Paulo Freire termed "the building not of head-nodding agreement, but of critical consciousness in dialogue with the world," as?

A) openness.
B) conscientization.
C) the behaviorist approach.
D) cultivation of knowledge.

Question 11

A nodal person is someone who is valuable to a social movement because they are:

A) positioned at the intersection of social networks.
B) in a well-respected leadership role.
C) able to build consensus in a group.
D) working behind the scenes to support phenomenological ruptures.

Question 12

The text defines which of the following terms as "how environmental social movements successfully confront resistance and, in the end, often broaden their solidarities"?

A) Political opportunity structure
B) Nodal people
C) Double politics
D) Contestation

Question 13

The double politics of contestation argues that:

A) both conflict and consensus have their place in social change.
B) change means movement. Movement means friction.
C) consensus organizers build relationships for mutual benefit.
D) all of the above.

Question 14

A wrenching experience that causes them suddenly to doubt the bases of trust upon which they had long committed themselves to this cultivation is known as?

A) a break in cultivation.
B) a phenomenological rupture.
C) a shift in nodal relations.
D) a trust-loss experience.

Question 15

Peter Eisinger defined which of the following terms as "the degree to which groups are likely to be able to gain access to power and to manipulate the political system"?

A) Problem of collective action
B) Contestations
C) Double politics
D) Political opportunity structure

Question 16

The text defines "dialogic providence" as:

A) a conflict-making approach.
B) gaining a face in the dialogue of decision making.
C) situational opportunities that provide scope for agency and change.
D) attempting a conflict approach in an unreceptive context.

Question 17

What is meant by "frame analysis"?

A) Leaders who are positioned at the intersection of social networks
B) The idea that knowledge is a social relation
C) The concept that if we change an individual's attitudes, behavior change will soon follow
D) Used in top-down methods of knowledge cultivation to change how people will respond to certain issues

Question 18

The cultivation of knowledge is dependent upon the social relations of trust and identity.

Question 19

A phenomenological rupture occurs when a person builds trust from a new experience.

Question 20

Conscientization is a term that describes how individuals can develop knowledge by drawing on their own experience to critically examine the world around them.

Question 21

The tragedy of the commons can be avoided when individuals participate in a dialogue of solidarities.

Question 22

A major critique of Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons" is the idea that humans are motivated by sentiments in a way that moves individuals beyond self-interest to act on behalf of the interests of others as well.

Question 23

Environmental sociologist Ray Murphy argues that human and non-human actants prompt one another through movements that can bridge the nature/culture divide.

Question 24

The on-farm research of the Practical Farmers of Iowa provides an example of both a dialogue of solidarities and double politics.

Question 25

Describe the "tragedy of the commons.?

Question 26

Explain the key differences between Hardin's allegory of the tragedy of the commons and the author's use of Androcles and the Lion?

Question 27

What is meant by "dialogue of solidarities?

Question 28

Explain how the dialogue of solidarities is a kind of ecological dialogue between the realms of the material and the ideal.?

Question 29

Describe how "conception", "connection", and "contestation" work together to create grassroots environmental movements?

Question 30

You are a herder on the commons. You go out counting sheep one day and you come to suspect that your neighbor, who also has rights to graze on the commons, has recently added some extra sheep to his flock. You are a well-read shepherd, and you worry that these extra sheep could easily lead to what Garrett Hardin calls the "tragedy of the commons." Drawing upon the theories presented in your readings and lecture, explain what you might do to prevent this tragedy from occurring.?

Question 31

Explain the relationship between phenomenological rupture, trust, and the creation of ecological knowledge by discussing the Practical Farmers of Iowa example from the book?

Question 32

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ "The Tragedy of the Commons"

A) Garrett Hardin
B) Aesop
C) Conceptions
D) Connections
E) Contestations
F) UNESCO
G) Phenomenological rupture
H) Frame analysis
I) Paulo Freire
J) Self-interests
K) Bruno Latour
L) Ray Murphy
M) Saul Alinsky
N) Michael Eichler
O) Peter Eisinger
P) Michael Bell

Question 33

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ "Androcles and the Lion"

A) Garrett Hardin
B) Aesop
C) Conceptions
D) Connections
E) Contestations
F) UNESCO
G) Phenomenological rupture
H) Frame analysis
I) Paulo Freire
J) Self-interests
K) Bruno Latour
L) Ray Murphy
M) Saul Alinsky
N) Michael Eichler
O) Peter Eisinger
P) Michael Bell

Question 34

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Ecological knowledge

A) Garrett Hardin
B) Aesop
C) Conceptions
D) Connections
E) Contestations
F) UNESCO
G) Phenomenological rupture
H) Frame analysis
I) Paulo Freire
J) Self-interests
K) Bruno Latour
L) Ray Murphy
M) Saul Alinsky
N) Michael Eichler
O) Peter Eisinger
P) Michael Bell

Question 35

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Community ties

A) Garrett Hardin
B) Aesop
C) Conceptions
D) Connections
E) Contestations
F) UNESCO
G) Phenomenological rupture
H) Frame analysis
I) Paulo Freire
J) Self-interests
K) Bruno Latour
L) Ray Murphy
M) Saul Alinsky
N) Michael Eichler
O) Peter Eisinger
P) Michael Bell

Question 36

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Political strategy

A) Garrett Hardin
B) Aesop
C) Conceptions
D) Connections
E) Contestations
F) UNESCO
G) Phenomenological rupture
H) Frame analysis
I) Paulo Freire
J) Self-interests
K) Bruno Latour
L) Ray Murphy
M) Saul Alinsky
N) Michael Eichler
O) Peter Eisinger
P) Michael Bell

Question 37

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Tbilisi Declaration

A) Garrett Hardin
B) Aesop
C) Conceptions
D) Connections
E) Contestations
F) UNESCO
G) Phenomenological rupture
H) Frame analysis
I) Paulo Freire
J) Self-interests
K) Bruno Latour
L) Ray Murphy
M) Saul Alinsky
N) Michael Eichler
O) Peter Eisinger
P) Michael Bell

Question 38

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Crisis of trust

A) Garrett Hardin
B) Aesop
C) Conceptions
D) Connections
E) Contestations
F) UNESCO
G) Phenomenological rupture
H) Frame analysis
I) Paulo Freire
J) Self-interests
K) Bruno Latour
L) Ray Murphy
M) Saul Alinsky
N) Michael Eichler
O) Peter Eisinger
P) Michael Bell

Question 39

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ David Snow & Robert Benford

A) Garrett Hardin
B) Aesop
C) Conceptions
D) Connections
E) Contestations
F) UNESCO
G) Phenomenological rupture
H) Frame analysis
I) Paulo Freire
J) Self-interests
K) Bruno Latour
L) Ray Murphy
M) Saul Alinsky
N) Michael Eichler
O) Peter Eisinger
P) Michael Bell

Question 40

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Conscientization

A) Garrett Hardin
B) Aesop
C) Conceptions
D) Connections
E) Contestations
F) UNESCO
G) Phenomenological rupture
H) Frame analysis
I) Paulo Freire
J) Self-interests
K) Bruno Latour
L) Ray Murphy
M) Saul Alinsky
N) Michael Eichler
O) Peter Eisinger
P) Michael Bell

Question 41

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Problem of collective action

A) Garrett Hardin
B) Aesop
C) Conceptions
D) Connections
E) Contestations
F) UNESCO
G) Phenomenological rupture
H) Frame analysis
I) Paulo Freire
J) Self-interests
K) Bruno Latour
L) Ray Murphy
M) Saul Alinsky
N) Michael Eichler
O) Peter Eisinger
P) Michael Bell

Question 42

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Actor network theory

A) Garrett Hardin
B) Aesop
C) Conceptions
D) Connections
E) Contestations
F) UNESCO
G) Phenomenological rupture
H) Frame analysis
I) Paulo Freire
J) Self-interests
K) Bruno Latour
L) Ray Murphy
M) Saul Alinsky
N) Michael Eichler
O) Peter Eisinger
P) Michael Bell

Question 43

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Prompts

A) Garrett Hardin
B) Aesop
C) Conceptions
D) Connections
E) Contestations
F) UNESCO
G) Phenomenological rupture
H) Frame analysis
I) Paulo Freire
J) Self-interests
K) Bruno Latour
L) Ray Murphy
M) Saul Alinsky
N) Michael Eichler
O) Peter Eisinger
P) Michael Bell

Question 44

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Rules for Radicals

A) Garrett Hardin
B) Aesop
C) Conceptions
D) Connections
E) Contestations
F) UNESCO
G) Phenomenological rupture
H) Frame analysis
I) Paulo Freire
J) Self-interests
K) Bruno Latour
L) Ray Murphy
M) Saul Alinsky
N) Michael Eichler
O) Peter Eisinger
P) Michael Bell

Question 45

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Consensus-based approach

A) Garrett Hardin
B) Aesop
C) Conceptions
D) Connections
E) Contestations
F) UNESCO
G) Phenomenological rupture
H) Frame analysis
I) Paulo Freire
J) Self-interests
K) Bruno Latour
L) Ray Murphy
M) Saul Alinsky
N) Michael Eichler
O) Peter Eisinger
P) Michael Bell

Question 46

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Political opportunity structure

A) Garrett Hardin
B) Aesop
C) Conceptions
D) Connections
E) Contestations
F) UNESCO
G) Phenomenological rupture
H) Frame analysis
I) Paulo Freire
J) Self-interests
K) Bruno Latour
L) Ray Murphy
M) Saul Alinsky
N) Michael Eichler
O) Peter Eisinger
P) Michael Bell

Question 47

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Double politics

A) Garrett Hardin
B) Aesop
C) Conceptions
D) Connections
E) Contestations
F) UNESCO
G) Phenomenological rupture
H) Frame analysis
I) Paulo Freire
J) Self-interests
K) Bruno Latour
L) Ray Murphy
M) Saul Alinsky
N) Michael Eichler
O) Peter Eisinger
P) Michael Bell