SOC 2280 quiz questions with correct answers.

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One of most important benefits of NEP within mainstream sociology, has been how easily it has
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been operationalized into researchable questions and variables. - correct answer✔✔False
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Young (2015) argues that sociology's core strengths (i.e., attention to culture, structure and
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power) enable us to look at the environment as simultaneously a human and natural
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phenomenon. - correct answer✔✔True |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




In the 1970's, Dunlap and Catton Jr., introduced the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) as a way to
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reshape sociological thinking to consider the essence of the environmentalist critique. - correct
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answer✔✔True
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Catton and Dunlap argue that, while many sociologists are critical of the Dominant Western
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Worldview (DWW), they have still unconsciously adopted a "more sophisticated version" |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




known as the Human Exemptionalist Paradigm (HEP). - correct answer✔✔True
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Sociology's strengths, i.e., the attention to culture, structure and power, help provide fresh
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perspectives on studying environmental problems. - correct answer✔✔True |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




The "plasticity myth" (Murphy 1994:17) is ____________. - correct answer✔✔the assumption
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that humans and nature are malleable and shapeable.
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Which of the following assumptions about the nature of human beings aligns best with the
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Human Exemptionalist Paradigm (HEP)? - correct answer✔✔Humans have a cultural heritage
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in addition to (and distinct from) their genetic inheritance, and are thus unlike all other animal
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species.

, Which of the following lists the theorists from least ecologically aware to most ecologically
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informed? - correct answer✔✔Durkheim, Weber, Marx |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




Ways of representing reality using language and other symbols is known as
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, which when analysed often uncovers hidden assumptions and power relations in a society. -
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correct answer✔✔Discourse |||\\\ |||\\\




According to Young, in addition to considerations of culture and structure, one of the greatest |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




strengths of sociology is the attention it pays to the role of |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




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in shaping human affairs. - correct answer✔✔power
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sociology is uniquely positioned to provide conceptual and methodological tools to think about
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the mutual embeddedness of nature and society. - correct answer✔✔enviromental
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Environmental sociologists pay a lot of attention to how |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




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influences human-nature interactions. We covered 3 dimensions of this in our course. - correct |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




answer✔✔power
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The Green New Deal is closely aligned with the Social Green paradigm (Clapp and Dauvergne)
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in that it weaves together proposals for improving the environment with proposals for
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decreasing inequality and improving human welfare. - correct answer✔✔false |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




Radical Ecological Democracy entails putting the rights of nature first and foremost, even if this
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involves increasing global inequality. - correct answer✔✔False |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\