Sociology 6th Edition Michael Mayerfeld Bell, Loka
L. Ashwood, Isaac Sohn Leslie, Laura Hanson
Schlachte
, Chapter 1: Environmental Problems and Society
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following terms best describes the study of community in the largest
possible sense?
A. social ecology
B. environmental sociology
C. ecological dialogue
D. environmental justice
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. The interactions and interrelations of people, animals, land, water, and air form a kind
of mutuality of consequence that is referred to as ______.
A. environmental justice
B. ecological dialogue
C. environmental sociology
D. social ecology
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. That climate change is a dangerous consequence of how we currently organize the
economic side of social life best aligns with which of the following views?
A. idealist
B. constructionist
C. materialist
D. realist
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. According to the text, the mutual and unfinalizable interrelationship of what we see
and feel with what we believe is best described as the ______.
A. social constitution of daily life
B. beauty of ecology
C. ecological dialogue
D. environmental goods and bads