Deck 6: Body and Justice

Question 1

What term is not associated with Amartya Sen's theory of justice?

A) Functionings
B) Capabilities
C) Pluralism
D) Utilitarianism

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Approximately how many people died as a result of the 1984 MIC leak from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India?

A) 10-100
B) 100-1000
C) 5,000-30,000
D) More than 1 million

Answer 2

C

Question 3

As the Ojibwa people of Grassy Narrows found out, the symptoms of methyl mercury poisoning mimic the effects of:

A) alcohol abuse.
B) cocaine addiction.
C) hyperactivity.
D) none of the above.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following is not part of the UN Development Programme's Human Development Index?

A) GNP per capita
B) Life expectancy
C) Knowledge access
D) Level of inequality

Question 5

The main point of John Rawls' discussion of justice is that:

A) all social values are to be distributed to everyone's advantage, not just for the greater good.
B) we must maximize people's capabilities to achieve their functionings.
C) the Human Development Index needs to be reevaluated.
D) utilitarianism should continue to be widely applied.

Question 6

In Melanie Dupuis's phrase NIMB, the B stands for:

A) backyard.
B) body.
C) building.
D) business.

Question 7

What does Manuel Castells call recent developments in society and technology?

A) Environmental injustice
B) Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY)
C) Economic collapse
D) Space of flows

Question 8

John Rawls suggests that there are circumstances in which inequality is just or what he terms "fair." What is Rawls' argument for this?

A) Inequality is fair, as long as it is for everyone's advantage (for example, the authority of parents over their children).
B) Inequality is fair when certain people agree to take the brunt of the environmental bad on behalf of the good.
C) Inequality is fair when leadership has been democratically elected.
D) All of the above.

Question 9

What does the HDI (Human Development Index) measure?

A) The gross national and gross domestic products
B) Physiological growth rates of impoverished children
C) The extent of human misery that results from poverty and environmental problems
D) Quality of life indicators such as literacy, life expectancy, standard of living and purchasing power

Question 10

What is Invironment?

A) Surroundings indoors that humans daily engage with
B) The body and health are a complete sphere separate from the environment
C) The inner zone of the environment where the body is in dialogue with the environment
D) The opposite of the environment

Question 11

Isodemocracy is best understood as:

A) democracy concerned with everybody and every body.
B) regulatory approaches to pesticide control.
C) an individual's internal concern for environment justice .
D) the opposite of the prodemocracy.

Question 12

What does Dworkin suggest?

A) Utilitarianism is the most just route for solving environmental challenges.
B) Equality of concern, concern for ourselves and others, is necessary.
C) Environmental justice is provided by the invisible hand.
D) Individuals pursuing their best interests protect the environment.

Question 13

Why does Urry mean by 'global fluids'?

A) He is disturbed by oceanic waste.
B) He suggests that we understand the globalization of capitalism as an unstoppable, liquid flow of money across borders.
C) He is concerned by the ever-increasing flow of polluting gases across the global atmosphere.
D) He suggests that we think of people, ideas and materials as streaming across the planet and connecting localities and bodies across the globe.

Question 14

What does environmental justice reveal about utilitarianism?

A) Environmental justice only tolerates action that benefits the majority.
B) Environmental justice shows how all people take the brunt of the benefits for certain goods.
C) Utilitarianism tolerates bad outcomes for some people.
D) All of the above.

Question 15

Why is organic food a positional good?

A) Organic food is limitless in supply and therefore is aptly positioned for economic gain.
B) Organic food is expensive and thus a ready source for social display for those in a position to pay for it.
C) All social classes can access affordable organic food.
D) All of the above.

Question 16

The text cites the case of the explosion of the AZF fertilizer factory in Toulouse, France which damaged 27,000 homes to make which theoretical point?

A) In the words of environmental sociologist David Pellow, that environmental inequality is a "sociohistorical process" rather than simply a "discrete event."
B) To raise the frequently posed question: did the plant target the area where the disadvantaged live, or did the disadvantaged move in after it was built?
C) That corporate culpability is hard to trace.
D) All of the above.

Question 17

Why use the term invironment instead of environment?

A) Environment is the broader category; the invironment is the zone of the body's interactions with the environment.
B) Invironment extends beyond you and me; environment is immediate.
C) Environment is the natural world, invironment is the built landscape.
D) Invironment is the domestic sphere, environment includes public health.

Question 18

Invironmental problems are rarely evenly distributed across a society. Why is this the case?

A) The sociohistorical process of inequality
B) A combination of social power and the acceptance of utilitarian arguments
C) Corporations organize themselves in order to shield themselves from blame
D) Discrete events-environmental catastrophes, health scares, and natural disasters

Question 19

Babies that are conceived between April and July, the prominenttime period for pesticide application, are more likely to have birthdefects, including Down's Syndrome, club foot, cleft lip, and othertroubles.

Question 20

In 2009, organic food sales rose at three times the rate of non-organic food sales.

Question 21

In the United States, 8 out of 10 consumers use organic products with their children's' health in min?

Question 22

The World Health Organization has banned all dangerous pesticides and the ones that are used today are not at all dangerous to human health.

Question 23

Empirical studies of environmental justice rarely find evidence of inequality.

Question 24

The invironment is the zone of the body's perpetual interactionwith the environment.

Question 25

The philosopher John Rawls argued that injustice is wheninequalities are not arranged to the benefit of everyone.

Question 26

Utilitarianism is a form of egalitarianism.

Question 27

What is the connection between environmental justice and economic justice? Provide an example from the chapter.?

Question 28

Explain what the author means when he describes "isodemocracy" as a democracy founded on equalities in both political and material standing. Why is material equality important to democracy?

Question 29

The author states that "the tragedy of Bhopal was a social tragedy as much as anything else." What does he mean?

Question 30

What are invironmental issues? Give an example?

Question 31

The public health and environmental movements are sometimes at odds with each other. Why is this the case? What might be done to improve the situation?

Question 32

Amartya Sen says that ensuring that everyone has the exactly the same things doesn't make sense in terms of justice. Explain why, and describe his emphasis on pluralism. What is his overall definition of justice?

Question 33

Consider the Bhopal tragedy. In what ways does this case illustrate problems of invironmental justice?

Question 34

It is well known by now that industrial production usually entails pollution of some sort, and often hazardous production practices. And yet this production continues. On what basis are these practices usually defended? What are some of the counter-arguments?

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.)
-____ Trace chemical pollutants

A) Body burden
B) Invironment
C) Ojibwa of Grassy Narrows
D) Organic food
E) Measure of economic utilitarianism
F) John Rawls
G) Amartya Sen
H) Ronald Dworkin
I) Human Development Index (HDI)
J) Bhopal, India

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.)
-____ Body interaction with environment

A) Body burden
B) Invironment
C) Ojibwa of Grassy Narrows
D) Organic food
E) Measure of economic utilitarianism
F) John Rawls
G) Amartya Sen
H) Ronald Dworkin
I) Human Development Index (HDI)
J) Bhopal, India

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.)
-____ Methyl mercury poisoning

A) Body burden
B) Invironment
C) Ojibwa of Grassy Narrows
D) Organic food
E) Measure of economic utilitarianism
F) John Rawls
G) Amartya Sen
H) Ronald Dworkin
I) Human Development Index (HDI)
J) Bhopal, India

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.)
-____ Positional good

A) Body burden
B) Invironment
C) Ojibwa of Grassy Narrows
D) Organic food
E) Measure of economic utilitarianism
F) John Rawls
G) Amartya Sen
H) Ronald Dworkin
I) Human Development Index (HDI)
J) Bhopal, India

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.)
-____ GDP

A) Body burden
B) Invironment
C) Ojibwa of Grassy Narrows
D) Organic food
E) Measure of economic utilitarianism
F) John Rawls
G) Amartya Sen
H) Ronald Dworkin
I) Human Development Index (HDI)
J) Bhopal, India

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.)
-____ Justice as fairness

A) Body burden
B) Invironment
C) Ojibwa of Grassy Narrows
D) Organic food
E) Measure of economic utilitarianism
F) John Rawls
G) Amartya Sen
H) Ronald Dworkin
I) Human Development Index (HDI)
J) Bhopal, India

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.)
-____ Functionings and capabilities

A) Body burden
B) Invironment
C) Ojibwa of Grassy Narrows
D) Organic food
E) Measure of economic utilitarianism
F) John Rawls
G) Amartya Sen
H) Ronald Dworkin
I) Human Development Index (HDI)
J) Bhopal, India

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.)
-____ Equality of concern

A) Body burden
B) Invironment
C) Ojibwa of Grassy Narrows
D) Organic food
E) Measure of economic utilitarianism
F) John Rawls
G) Amartya Sen
H) Ronald Dworkin
I) Human Development Index (HDI)
J) Bhopal, India

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.)
-____ Quality of life

A) Body burden
B) Invironment
C) Ojibwa of Grassy Narrows
D) Organic food
E) Measure of economic utilitarianism
F) John Rawls
G) Amartya Sen
H) Ronald Dworkin
I) Human Development Index (HDI)
J) Bhopal, India

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.)
-____ Union Carbide pesticide plant

A) Body burden
B) Invironment
C) Ojibwa of Grassy Narrows
D) Organic food
E) Measure of economic utilitarianism
F) John Rawls
G) Amartya Sen
H) Ronald Dworkin
I) Human Development Index (HDI)
J) Bhopal, India