Deck 7: The Ideology of Environmental Domination

Question 1

Which of the following do Christianity, individualism, and patriarchy have in common?

A) Hierarchy
B) Inequality
C) Connections between environmental domination and social domination
D) All of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

In the Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis, the historian Lynn White focuses on the influence of technology on our attitudes about nature. Which of the following technologies had the most significance in shaping these attitudes according to White?

A) Windmills
B) The weight-driven clock
C) The mold board plow
D) The blast furnace

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The most important feature of the carnivalesque body is:

A) it is a source of bathroom humor.
B) it is forever interacting and exchanging with the natural world.
C) it is the source of our individualism.
D) it is dirty, indecent, and obscene.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

An important aspect of carnivalesque humor is that it:

A) is gross and degrading.
B) is only expressed during the Pre-Lenten Festival.
C) is egalitarian in that it attempts to level inequalities and build community.
D) creates separation and hierarchy.

Question 5

Which of the following expresses the values and assumptions of patriarchal ecology?

A) Women's association with reproduction and the domestic sphere places them closer to nature.
B) Men's association with production and the public sphere distances them from nature.
C) Women are associated with fulfilling bodily and emotional needs, while men are associated with rationality, civilization, government, and business.
D) All of the above.

Question 6

Which of the following is a key characteristic of patriarchal dualisms?

A) They are never gendered.
B) They reflect gradients on a continuum.
C) They always imply a hierarchy or moral judgment.
D) They reflect the interdependence between categories.

Question 7

Through his ethnographic study of an English village the author demonstrates that:?

A) patriarchal stereotypes may be internalized.
B) the British are more environmentally sensitive than Americans.
C) patriarchal dualisms are peculiar to American attitudes on the environment.
D) men describe natural experiences using "metaphors of nurturing."

Question 8

The argument that Christian ideology alone has led to environmental degradation is faulty because:

A) the Old Testament, upon which Christian domination of nature is based, is revered by Jews and Muslims as well as Christians.
B) Christianity has often been at odds with science and technology.
C) the Bible includes passages revering an ecological sense of stewardship.
D) all of the above.

Question 9

According to Val Plumwood, what has been women's key environmental role?

A) Women are responsible for stopping the bulldozers.
B) Women's actions bulldoze the environment.
C) As consumers, women are the support troops in the assault against nature.
D) Women are victims of male domination of nature.

Question 10

Which of the following summarizes the "Mom will pick up after us" vision of the environment?

A) A sexist conception of how the environment cleans itself
B) An idea of pollution management extended from women who magically make dirt disappear
C) An acceptance of the risk of "overindulgent boys playing with radioactive and polluting materials"
D) All of the above

Question 11

In this chapter, we discuss which key concept that Weber proposed?

A) The treadmill of production
B) A non-western conceptualization of the environment
C) The Protestant ethic
D) Gargantua and Pantagruel

Question 12

How might the notion of the East as ecologically sensitive be a "back-handed insult" to non-Western societies?

A) Because Eastern cultures are less patriarchal than the West.
B) Because environmental transformation and related capitalism is more recent in the East than the West.
C) Because it insinuates that Eastern ideology is more rational and practical than that of the West.
D) Because it implies that scientific and technological capacity is beyond the ideological capabilities of the East.

Question 13

How is class hierarchy evident in attitudes about nature?

A) Lower classes are accused of being more primitive.
B) Higher classes are assumed to have greater control of their emotions.
C) It is implied that lower classes have a tendency toward violence and sexual licentiousness.
D) All of the above.

Question 14

Cleared virgin forest, fertility of soil, bosom of the deep, and Mother Nature are all:

A) erroneous descriptions of Eastern landscapes.
B) gendered metaphors which reiterate a domineering attitude toward the environment.
C) poetic terms offered by English people about their landscapes.
D) all of the above.

Question 15

Which of the following is a core feature of the doctrine of predestination in Calvinist thought?

A) The Protestant ethic
B) The treadmill of production
C) A western conceptualization of the environment
D) Asceticism

Question 16

According to the author, the environmental ideas discussed by White-linear time, an inanimate world, the dichotomy between people and nature anthropocentrism- are explicit aspects of Mosaic religions.

Question 17

There is an ideological link between the domination ofnature and the domination of women.

Question 18

Ecofeminists charge that patriarchal dualisms are thefoundation of environmental domination.

Question 19

The logic of domination recognizes gray areas and interdependence between patriarchal dualisms.

Question 20

The main tenet of ecofeminism is that women have been better stewards of the environment than men have been.

Question 21

The Protestant belief in predestination led early Calvinists to display wealth in order to prove their worthiness of heaven.

Question 22

Elite responses to the way humans see their individualbodies connecting to nature typically reject ecologicalbodily processes.

Question 23

Give an example of gendered imagery in the Gulf Oil spill. What is problematic about this?

Question 24

Briefly describe the environmental significance of a carnivalesque conception of the body?

Question 25

List three shortcomings to Bakhtin's argument?

Question 26

Briefly explain what the author means by "the ecology of patriarchy.?

Question 27

Cite five examples of patriarchal dualisms and describe how they might fit within a logic of domination?

Question 28

Describe briefly how patriarchy contributes to the environmental oppression of men?

Question 29

Lynn White suggested that certain technology "dramatically changed human attitudes toward the environment." Briefly explain this statement, citing the ideological shift that came with the invention of the technology he cites?

Question 30

Explain how the Calvinist doctrine of predestination contributes to the treadmill of production?

Question 31

Social inequality has material AND ideological roots. Explain and provide an example from your readings.?

Question 32

Social inequality is often said to be the underlying social cause of environmental decline. Discuss social inequality's role in at least three of the following processes: the distribution of pollution, over-consumption, the treadmill of production, uneven development, and conceptions of nature?

Question 33

What are the ideological origins of environmental decline? In your answer, be sure to draw upon material both from lecture and from course readings?

Question 34

Support or refute Weber's conceptualization of the Protestant ethnic?

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.)
-____ The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

A) Max Weber
B) Wu-wei
C) Lynn White
D) Mikhail Bakhtin
E) Cult of Work
F) Immanence
G) Grotesque body
H) Grotesque body
I) Carnivalesque body
J) Body's lower stratum
K) Body's upper stratum
L) Logic of domination
M) Patriarchy
N) Classical body

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.)
-____ Non-action

A) Max Weber
B) Wu-wei
C) Lynn White
D) Mikhail Bakhtin
E) Cult of Work
F) Immanence
G) Grotesque body
H) Grotesque body
I) Carnivalesque body
J) Body's lower stratum
K) Body's upper stratum
L) Logic of domination
M) Patriarchy
N) Classical body

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.)
-____ The Historical Roots of the Ecological Crisis

A) Max Weber
B) Wu-wei
C) Lynn White
D) Mikhail Bakhtin
E) Cult of Work
F) Immanence
G) Grotesque body
H) Grotesque body
I) Carnivalesque body
J) Body's lower stratum
K) Body's upper stratum
L) Logic of domination
M) Patriarchy
N) Classical body

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.)
-____ Rabelais and His World

A) Max Weber
B) Wu-wei
C) Lynn White
D) Mikhail Bakhtin
E) Cult of Work
F) Immanence
G) Grotesque body
H) Grotesque body
I) Carnivalesque body
J) Body's lower stratum
K) Body's upper stratum
L) Logic of domination
M) Patriarchy
N) Classical body

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.)
-____ Asceticism

A) Max Weber
B) Wu-wei
C) Lynn White
D) Mikhail Bakhtin
E) Cult of Work
F) Immanence
G) Grotesque body
H) Grotesque body
I) Carnivalesque body
J) Body's lower stratum
K) Body's upper stratum
L) Logic of domination
M) Patriarchy
N) Classical body

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.)
-____ Transcendence

A) Max Weber
B) Wu-wei
C) Lynn White
D) Mikhail Bakhtin
E) Cult of Work
F) Immanence
G) Grotesque body
H) Grotesque body
I) Carnivalesque body
J) Body's lower stratum
K) Body's upper stratum
L) Logic of domination
M) Patriarchy
N) Classical body

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.)
-____ Ecological body

A) Max Weber
B) Wu-wei
C) Lynn White
D) Mikhail Bakhtin
E) Cult of Work
F) Immanence
G) Grotesque body
H) Grotesque body
I) Carnivalesque body
J) Body's lower stratum
K) Body's upper stratum
L) Logic of domination
M) Patriarchy
N) Classical body

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.)
-____ Carnivalesque body

A) Max Weber
B) Wu-wei
C) Lynn White
D) Mikhail Bakhtin
E) Cult of Work
F) Immanence
G) Grotesque body
H) Grotesque body
I) Carnivalesque body
J) Body's lower stratum
K) Body's upper stratum
L) Logic of domination
M) Patriarchy
N) Classical body

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.)
-____ Mikhail Bakhtin

A) Max Weber
B) Wu-wei
C) Lynn White
D) Mikhail Bakhtin
E) Cult of Work
F) Immanence
G) Grotesque body
H) Grotesque body
I) Carnivalesque body
J) Body's lower stratum
K) Body's upper stratum
L) Logic of domination
M) Patriarchy
N) Classical body

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.)
-____ Carnivalesque body

A) Max Weber
B) Wu-wei
C) Lynn White
D) Mikhail Bakhtin
E) Cult of Work
F) Immanence
G) Grotesque body
H) Grotesque body
I) Carnivalesque body
J) Body's lower stratum
K) Body's upper stratum
L) Logic of domination
M) Patriarchy
N) Classical body

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.)
-____ Classical body

A) Max Weber
B) Wu-wei
C) Lynn White
D) Mikhail Bakhtin
E) Cult of Work
F) Immanence
G) Grotesque body
H) Grotesque body
I) Carnivalesque body
J) Body's lower stratum
K) Body's upper stratum
L) Logic of domination
M) Patriarchy
N) Classical body

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.)
-____ The tendency to separate the world into antagonistic pairs

A) Max Weber
B) Wu-wei
C) Lynn White
D) Mikhail Bakhtin
E) Cult of Work
F) Immanence
G) Grotesque body
H) Grotesque body
I) Carnivalesque body
J) Body's lower stratum
K) Body's upper stratum
L) Logic of domination
M) Patriarchy
N) Classical body

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.)
-____ dualisms

A) Max Weber
B) Wu-wei
C) Lynn White
D) Mikhail Bakhtin
E) Cult of Work
F) Immanence
G) Grotesque body
H) Grotesque body
I) Carnivalesque body
J) Body's lower stratum
K) Body's upper stratum
L) Logic of domination
M) Patriarchy
N) Classical body

Question 48

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.)
-____ Asceticism

A) Max Weber
B) Wu-wei
C) Lynn White
D) Mikhail Bakhtin
E) Cult of Work
F) Immanence
G) Grotesque body
H) Grotesque body
I) Carnivalesque body
J) Body's lower stratum
K) Body's upper stratum
L) Logic of domination
M) Patriarchy
N) Classical body