Question 1

Identify a social change that has occurred in your lifetime. What sociological concepts can you draw upon to help you explain that change and its consequences?

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Question 2

Situations in which a previously rare (or seemingly rare)event, response, or opinion snowballs into something dramatically more common are known as

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A) melting points. 
B) tipping points. 
C) critical stages. 
D) social change points.

Question 3

When sociologists study the potential human connection to climate change, they ask whic h one of the following questions?

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A) Is climate change real? 
B) Wh at has changed since 1750, making human activity heavily dependent upon fossil fuels? 
C) Is climate change man-made or part of the planet's natural shift in weather patterns? 
D) What country is most responsible for climate change?

Question 4

North America has the highest per person carbon dioxide emissions from the consumption of energy generated from burning fossil fuels by region of the world. Africa has the lowest. In examining these figures sociologists would be most likely to ask

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A) "What changes have made human activity in North America more dependent on fossil fuels than human activity in Africa?" 
B) "How can North Americans be more like Africans?" 
C) "Are African countries more environmentally friendly than North American countries?" 
D) "What personality traits exist in North America that do not exist in Africa that are causing more fossil fuel consumption?"

Question 5

The unprecedented increase in the amount of stored data and messages transmitted through all forms of media is known as the

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A) McDonaldization of Society. 
B) Electrification of Society. 
C) Information Explosion. 
D) Green Movement.

Question 6

About 50 percent of the world's population lives in _______ environment.

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A) an urban 
B) a rural 
C) a suburban 
D) a city

Question 7

___________ are particularly interested in ways changing climate is affecting interactions among Greenlanders.

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A) Functionalists 
B) Conflict theorists 
C) Symbolic interactionists 
D) Structural strain theorists

Question 8

_______________ movements seek to turn back the hands of time to an earlier condition or state of being.

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A) Regressive 
B) Reformist 
C) Revolutionary 
D) Counter-revolutionary

Question 9

Anthropologist Leslie White maintained that inventions control people. He supported this conclusion with the argument that

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A) necessity is the mother of invention. 
B) when the cultural base is capable of supporting an invention that invention will come into being whether we want it or not. 
C) human beings have no free will. 
D) the best things in science are found because they are useful at the time.

Question 10

Sociology first emerged as a discipline attempting to understand an event that triggered dramatic and seemingly endless changes in every area of human life. That event was

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A) the Sexual Revolution. 
B) the Industrial Revolution. 
C) the Civil War. 
D) World War II.

Question 11

Inventors may be geniuses, but they also must be born in the right place and at the right time; this means that

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A) inventors must be born in a capitalist country free of government control. 
B) the society into which they are born must have compulsory education. 
C) they must live in a society with a cultural base sufficiently developed to support their invention. 
D) people must perceive their inventions as useful.

Question 12

Highways and automobiles have created _____ and making it difficult to distinguish between city, suburbs, and nonurban environments

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A) urban sprawl 
B) planned obsolescence 
C) globalization 
D) an anomaly

Question 13

A society in which the use of fossil fuels shapes virtually every aspect of people's personal and social lives is a ______________ society.

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A) global 
B) hydrocarbon 
C) greenhouse 
D) industrial

Question 14

"Of all discoveries and opinions, none may have exerted a greater effect on the human spirit than the doctrine of Copernicus. The world had scarcely become known as round and complete in itself when it was asked to waive the tremendous privilege of being the center of the universe. Never, perhaps, was a greater demand made on mankind-for by this admission so many things vanished in mist and smoke!" (Goethe 2004). This description describes

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A) a scientific revolution. 
B) an anomaly. 
C) a reformist movement. 
D) a paradigm.

Question 15

What is planned obsolescence? Do an inventory of items around your hose. List 10 items you expect to hang on to for life! List 10 items that will likely be discarded or become unusable within the next year.

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Question 16

When audiences hear on the nightly news that Santa Claus has left his North Pole home and is crossing Greenland and heading to the United States to deliver presents, they come to associate Greenland with the North Pole. This kind of learning process is known as

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A) informal education. 
B) formal education. 
C) schooling. 
D) hidden curriculum.

Question 17

The ceaseless increases in production and, by extension, ceaseless consumption needed to sustain the global economy's success that is measured by increased profits is called the

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A) McDonaldization of Society. 
B) Treadmill of Production. 
C) Profit-Driven Economy. 
D) Planned Obsolescence of Society.

Question 18

What factors converged to create a hydrocarbon society? Which factors matter to you on a persona level -- that is, are they a part of your life? (e.g. McDonaldization, mechanization, etc)

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Question 19

_____ is the ever increasing flow of goods, services, money, people, information, and culture across political borders.

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A) Mechanization 
B) Globalization 
C) Urbanization 
D) Global interdependence

Question 20

With regards to the dependence on fossil fuels, the sociological perspective is oriented towards answering which question?

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A) "Is climate change really a result of human activity and dependence on fossil fuels?" 
B) "What about human activity has changed since 1750 that has increased dependency on fossil fuels?" 
C) "How can humans reduce their dependency on fossil fuels?" 
D) "Is the dependence on fossil fuels real?"

Exam 16: Social Change: With Emphasis on Changing Environment