DeVry • Sociology

1. Question (TCO 1) Which of the following is a predicted outcome of continued global warming? 2. Question (TCO 2) The Conservation Reserve Program was funded in the United States to conserve which of the following precious resources? 3. Question (TCO 3) Environmental goods and environmental bads are: 4. Question (TCO 4) According to the economist Fred Hirsch, a "positional good" is a good or commodity: 5. Question (TCO 5) Of the many techniques advertisers use to persuade customers to purchas...

1. Question (TCO 1) Ecological dialogue can best be summarized as: 2. Question (TCO 2) Which of the following is the major cause of species extinction? 3. Question (TCO 3) What environmental problem did the Montreal Protocol seek to address? 4. Question (TCO 4) According to the economist Fred Hirsch, a "positional good" is a good or commodity: 5. Question (TCO 5) Of the many techniques advertisers use to persuade customers to purchase goods, which is the most effective? 6. Question (TCO 6) Acc...

Multiple Choice 1. Question: (TCO 1) Which of the following is a predicted outcome of continued global warming? 2. Question: (TCO 2) The realist-constructionist debate in environmental sociology is characterized by differences in materialist versus idealist explanations of social life. Which of the following distinguishes a constructionist perspective on environment problems? 3. Question: (TCO 3) The 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists whose work led to discovery of th...

Multiple Choice 1. Question: (TCO 1) Climatologists continue to debate global warming. Which of the following is NOT an argument against the global warming hypothesis? 2. Question: (TCO 2) The Conservation Reserve Program was funded in the United States to conserve which of the following precious resources? 3. Question: (TCO 3) Environmental goods and environmental bads are: 4. Question: (TCO 4) According to the economist Fred Hirsch, a "positional good" is a good or commodity: 5. Question: (...

1. Question (TCO 8) What term is not associated with Amartya Sen's theory of justice? 2. Question (TCO 8) The main point of John Rawls' discussion of justice is that: 3. Question (TCO 8) A University of Massachusetts study refutes claims of pervasive environmental racism. Which of the following statements characterizes how this study was conducted? 4. Question (TCO 8) Which system is tightly coupled? 5. Question (TCO 8) Kai Erikson calls human induced disasters a "new species of trouble" bec...

1. Question (TCO 8) As the Ojibwa people of Grassy Narrows found out, the symptoms of methyl mercury poisoning mimic the effects of: 2. Question (TCO 8) Which of the following is not part of the UN Development Programme's Human Development Index? 3. Question (TCO 8) What does the HDI (Human Development Index) measure? 4. Question (TCO 8) Ulrich Beck argues that the driving force behind the risk society can be characterized by which of the following statements? 5. Question (TCO 8) The chapter...