Explain with examples three ways LGBTQIA+ individuals face stigma / discrimination in the US. Next, from the reading (28)Dozier, why has there been a heavy investment in asserting that same-sex parents don’t differ from heterosexual parents?

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Question 5

Answer the following question, based on lectures as well as readings. When you refer to the reading in your answer, put the author’s last name in parentheses – example: (Coontz). Do not repeat the question; simply number then answer. Your total word should be minimum 300 words, typed, double spaced. At the top of your exam please put your name, class, and word count. You will submit this as a Word doc. All answers must be in your own words; no direct quoting from lecture material or readings is allowed.

5) Explain with examples three ways LGBTQIA+ individuals face stigma / discrimination in the US. Next, from the reading (28)Dozier, why has there been a heavy investment in asserting that same-sex parents don’t differ from heterosexual parents? Give two examples of how same-sex families do in fact differ from heterosexual families.

What is the difference between sex and gender? What is gender socialization, and explain examples of gender bias in different levels of school. How and why do women and men, on average, have different communication styles? Give examples of rapport talk vs report talk.

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Question 4

Answer the following question, based on lectures as well as readings. When you refer to the reading in your answer, put the author’s last name in parentheses – example: (Coontz). Do not repeat the question; simply number then answer. Your total word should be minimum 300 words, typed, double spaced. At the top of your exam please put your name, class, and word count. You will submit this as a Word doc. All answers must be in your own words; no direct quoting from lecture material or readings is allowed.

4) What is the difference between sex and gender? What is gender socialization, and explain examples of gender bias in different levels of school. How and why do women and men, on average, have different communication styles? Give examples of rapport talk vs report talk. Finally, from the reading (27)Davis, what is intersex, and how do many medical practitioners present this issue to parents? How do parents respond?

What is the term used in this course to signify the amount of land (including surface water) required or used by a person or group over a specific period of time? What is the term used for conditions in which human exploitation and consumption of ecosystem services (including all resources extracted from nature) exceeds the capacity of ecosystems to renew themselves or heal?

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Soc 330 – Sociology of the Environment

Quiz 1

                                                           

Part I – Multiple choice questions

Answer the question or correctly complete the phrase provided. Highlight or bold the correct response. There is only one correct lettered response for each question.

 

  1. From the perspective of environmental sociology, “global change”…
  2. a) refers to the process whereby life first emerged on Earth
  3. b) refers to the fact the most serious environmental problems facing humanity and nature are always local and specific to particular regions – they change from one country to another
  4. c) refers to worldwide environmental problems that threaten to significantly and adversely disrupt social and natural systems.
  5. d) does not refer to problems such as climate change and species loss because they are local and not global problems.
  6. e) all of the above
  7. f) c and d only
  8. g) a, c and d only
  9. h) b and d only
  10. i) none of the above

 

  1. Emile Durkheim…
  2. a) is famous for leading the development of demographic transition theory
  3. b) rejected the approach of social Darwinists who focused on human biology, principally genetic inheritance, to explain human social and psychological conditions.
  4. c) is renowned as a founder of environmental sociology
  5. d) believed only the physical and natural sciences could explain why human social systems behaved the way they did.
  6. e) all of the above
  7. f) b and c only
  8. g) b, c and d only
  9. h) a and c only
  10. i) none of the above

 

  1. Shove and Warde propose that…
  2. a) sometimes people acquire consumer goods (go shopping) as a way to add novelty to their lives and avoid boredom.
  3. b) some people make purchases that are unnecessary simply to ensure that their possessions match or fit with other goods they have previously purchased.
  4. c) some people make purchases based on their desire to conform with the identity of their core social group.
  5. d) some people purchase particular goods as a way to express their personal identity
  6. e) all of the above
  7. f) c, d and a only
  8. g) c and d only
  9. h) a and b only
  10. i) none of the above

 

  1. Ecosystem services…
  2. a) include the resources provided by nature that make human life and society feasible
  3. b) include the provision of cultural services including aesthetic and recreational benefits
  4. c) include the provision of suitable locations for human, homes and communities
  5. d) include only those things required to sustain natural ecosystems and have no relationship to individuals or society
  6. e) all of the above
  7. f) b, c and d only
  8. g) c and d only
  9. h) a, b and c only
  10. i) none of the above

 

  1. People involved in the early stages of the theoretical development of environmental sociology include…
  2. a) David Suzuki
  3. b) Max Weber
  4. c) William Catton
  5. d) Catherine McKenna
  6. e) all of the above
  7. f) b and c only
  8. g) a, b and d only
  9. h) a and d only
  10. i) none of the above

 

  1. Demographic transition theory…
  2. a) proposes that population growth rates tend to decline as countries become more modern and prosperous
  3. b) proposes that making vaccines available to people in poor countries with high population growth rates is wrong because over the very long-term it makes the problem of overpopulation worse
  4. c) proposes that population growth rates tend to decline as more girls became educated
  5. d) proposes that when countries achieve high levels of wealth along with high levels of technical and industrial development their population growth rates decline to just above, below or at the replacement level.
  6. e) all of the above
  7. f) a, c and d only
  8. g) b and c only
  9. h) b, c and d only
  10. i) none of the above

 

  1. Countries with the highest overshoot rates…
  2. a) are more likely to be rich as opposed to poor countries as measured by per capita GDP.
  3. b) have lower per capita ecological footprints than countries with low overshoot rates
  4. c) are engaged in consumption that exceeds the capacity of natural ecosystems to renew themselves.
  5. d) tend to have lower HDI ratings than countries with smaller footprints and overshoot rates
  6. e) all of the above
  7. f) b and c only
  8. g) c and d only
  9. h) a and c only
  10. i) none of the above

 

  1. Some of the information on globalization presented thus far in this course…
  2. a) suggests that trade globalization has encouraged the transfer of manufacturing jobs from rich countries to poorer developing counties.
  3. b) has been a virtually total environmental success since it resulted in the closure of polluting industrial plants in Europe and North America.
  4. c) suggests that globalization of trade has facilitated the transfer of pollution and waste from the rich world to the developing world.
  5. d) suggests that corporations are sometimes prompted to move their manufacturing facilities to those countries with the weakest environmental and labour laws.
  6. e) suggests that trade globalization can always be counted on to provide well-paying jobs with great working conditions to poor people in the developing world.
  7. f) all of the above
  8. g) a, b and c only
  9. h) a, b and e only
  10. i) a, c and d only
  11. j) none of the above

 

  1. Thorstein Veblen claimed…
  2. a) the nouveau riche (aka leisure class) of the Gilded Age engaged in conspicuous consumption to signal their high economic status.
  3. b) middle and lower class Americans often emulated the wealthy elite by purchasing whatever status or luxury goods they could afford.
  4. c) middle class resentment against the elite leisure class was bound to lead to a socialist revolution in America.
  5. d) some ridiculously high priced luxury or status goods are purchased by the wealthy in part because poorer people can’t afford them.
  6. e) all of the above
  7. f) a and d only
  8. g) a, b and d only
  9. h) c and d only
  10. i) none of the above

 

  1. Which if any of the following statements is correct?
  2. a) Malthus proposed that increases in the production in food will always be sufficient to accommodate growing populations.
  3. b) Julian Simon proposed that population growth and increasing population density are the most critical problems facing humanity.
  4. c) Paul Ehrlich predicted that the modern Green Revolution would prevent global famine in the 1970s and 1980s.
  5. d) demographic transition theory proposes that the only solutions to runaway population growth are famine, disease, war and pestilence
  6. e) the higher and faster growing a country’s population is the higher its per capita ecological footprint and consumption rate will be.
  7. f) all of the above
  8. g) b, c and d only
  9. h) b and c only
  10. i) a, c, d and e only
  11. j) none of the above

 

  1. Durkheim proposed that…
  2. a) suicide has biological causes related to things such as brain diseases and defects
  3. b) suicide is likely influenced by genetics since people probably inherit brain defects
  4. c) there are social factors that are probably responsible for the fact different populations have different suicide rates
  5. d) religion and religious norms do not play a role in determining a population’s suicide rates
  6. e) all of the above
  7. f) a and b only
  8. g) b and d only
  9. h) a, c and d only
  10. i) none of the above

 

  1. Consumption…
  2. a) will never be a problem once the global population levels off at its replacement rate.
  3. b) will never be a problem if we simply allow the people in all countries to consume at the rate of the average North American.
  4. c) could never be higher for a relatively rich person from a developing country than it is for a very poor person in a more developed country.
  5. d) of some natural resources such as ocean fish stocks will cease to be a problem when the global population levels off at the replacement level during the current century.
  6. e) all of the above
  7. f) b and d only
  8. g) a, b and c only
  9. h) c and d only
  10. i) none of the above

 

  1. Rationales for the idea that economic growth is desirable/and or essential in capitalist economies include…
  2. a) increased opportunities to create new businesses are thought to accompany economic growth
  3. b) as a country’s population grows, increased economic growth is required to produce more goods services and livelihoods for more people.
  4. c) when the economic growth rate, as measured by GDP, declines or becomes negative more people are likely to find new job opportunities.
  5. d) if economic growth, as measured by GDP, goes into steep and severe decline, borrowers are less likely to meet their debt obligations.
  6. e) all of the above
  7. f) a, b and c only
  8. g) a, b and d only
  9. h) b and d only
  10. i) none of the above

 

  1. The term “false dichotomy” was presented in this course…
  2. a) and was described in part as the illogical attempt to present a debate as having only two sides when it may have many
  3. b) because it is a key element of the Gaia hypothesis
  4. c) and was used to help illustrate the relationship between social constructionism and environmental realism
  5. d) to explain how all human environmental problems are really socially constructed problems – it is our response to nature and our influences over it and not nature itself that are important.
  6. e) all of the above
  7. f) a and c only
  8. g) a, b and d only
  9. h) a, b and c only
  10. I) none of the above

 

  1. During the demographic transition…
  2. a) the population of cities tends to increase while the population of rural areas declines
  3. b) people eventually determine they need to have fewer babies because more children will survive infancy due to improved health conditions.
  4. c) people migrate to areas such as cities where there are more employment opportunities
  5. d) people become more and more reluctant to have their children educated because they need them to stay on the farm as opposed to seeking jobs in the city.
  6. e) all of the above
  7. f) b and d only
  8. g) b, c and d only
  9. h) a, b and c only
  10. i) none of the above

 

  1. Urban sociology…
  2. a) focused primarily on the relationship between cities and natural ecosystems
  3. b) focused primarily on one type of socially constructed environment as opposed to the natural environment
  4. c) helped explain why poor and blue-collar, working class families tend to live in the more polluted parts of cities.
  5. d) proposed that when cities grow to become more industrialized and have higher populations, growth tends to occur in a pattern of concentric circles of development.
  6. e) proposed that the neighbourhoods of the affluent tended to be upwind from factories and refineries whereas poor neighbourhoods are more likely to be located close to and downwind from industrial facilities.
  7. f) b, c and d only
  8. g) a, d and e only
  9. h) b, c, d and e only
  10. i) none of the above

 

  1. John Rawls proposed that…
  2. a) people’s life plans are irrelevant with respect to equality of opportunity because they could aspire to the impossible.
  3. b) people should start out in life with necessities such as food, housing and education.
  4. c) people should start out in life with an initial endowment of primary goods
  5. d) it is not possible to meet people’s needs for self-respect, because many people could require yachts, mansions and private jets to feel self-respect.
  6. e) all of the above
  7. f) b and c only
  8. g) a and d only
  9. h) c, d and e only
  10. i) none of the above

 

  1. Oakville, Ontario’s Citizens for Clean Air organization…
  2. a) is an example of a YIMBY organization
  3. b) worked solely on behalf of the effort to reduce Ontario’s overall greenhouse gas emissions.
  4. c) demonstrated incredibly deep concern for the less wealthy citizens of Nanticoke, Ontario and the environmental conditions affecting their lives.
  5. d) demonstrated that grassroots community-based organizations can always be counted upon to put the environment ahead of their own concerns.
  6. e) all of the above
  7. f) c and d only
  8. g) a, c and d only
  9. h) b and c only
  10. i) none of the above

 

  1. Since the end of WWII the following social conditions have facilitated increasing levels of household consumption…
  2. a) as it became more common for both adults in a household to have jobs, store shopping hours were increased to allow evening shopping.
  3. b) following the end of the war many women returned from the workforce to the role of domestic home makers which allowed them the opportunity to shop over the course of regular 9:00 to 5:00 business day.
  4. c) the recent growth of online retailers such as Amazon have increased shopping and, by extension, consumption opportunities.
  5. d) the emergence of consumer credit cards in the 1960s and their subsequent popularity
  6. e) all of the above
  7. f) b and c only
  8. g) c, d and e only
  9. h) a and b only
  10. i) none of the above

 

  1. The Gaia hypothesis…
  2. a) explains that there are finite limits to continued growth in human consumption
  3. b) is a metaphor which illustrates the interdependence and inter-connectedness of ecosystems, life and the biosphere
  4. c) proposes that excessive consumption is a bigger problem than population.
  5. d) was proposed by Rachel Carson
  6. e) all of the above
  7. f) a, b and c only
  8. g) c and d only
  9. h) b, c and d only
  10. i) none of the above

 

Part II – Short written answer questions

Using one sentence but no more than two sentences, answer each of the following questions.

 

  1. What is the term used in this course to signify the amount of land (including surface water) required or used by a person or group over a specific period of time?

 

  1. What is the term used for conditions in which human exploitation and consumption of ecosystem services (including all resources extracted from nature) exceeds the capacity of ecosystems to renew themselves or heal?

 

  1. What is the concept presented in this course that likens the biosphere to a giant living thing made up of interconnected and interdependent parts?

 

  1. Why do birth rates not show a significant decline early in stage two of the demographic transition even though death rates exhibit a pronounced decline?

 

  1. What is the term used for the idea that human ingenuity, science and technology make civilization less vulnerable to the forces of nature and less dependent on the natural environment?

 

  1. Identify one of the factors that encourages people in many less developed countries to have large families.

 

  1. Provide one of the reasons used in this course to explain why people in modern developed countries consume more goods and services than are required to sustain physical health and a reasonably long life.

 

  1. What is the term employed in this course to describe the new way of thinking required for human societies to avoid environmental degradation?

 

  1. What is the academic discipline or sub-discipline which focuses on the interactions between human societies and the environment?
  2. Identify the principal development that helped humanity avoid the sort of mass global famine predicted by Paul Ehrlich in The Population Bomb.

 

 

 

 

Part III – Matching (worth two points each)

Place the letter for your answers in the right-hand column.

 

  Place letter answers here
Anthropocene  
Garbage  
Laxer labour and environmental laws  
Was less concerned about population growth than Ehrlich  
Limits to Growth  
Lovelock and Margulis  
Silent Spring  
Malthus  
Modern Green Revolution  
Environmentally-unsustainable excessive consumption  

 

 

  1. a) Donella Meadows
  2. b) the Gaia hypothesis
  3. c) helped prevent the famine predicted by Ehrlich
  4. d) overshoot
  5. e) Julian Simon
  6. f) Rachel Carson
  7. g) reasons partly responsible for the shifting of much of the leather tanning industry from North
    America to developing countries such as China and Bangladesh
  8. h) a time when human activities, often associated with global change, have become a significant, perhaps dominant, force impacting the Earth and the natural environment.
  9. i) a Canadian export the Philippines did not want
  10. j) famine, disease, war and pestilence

 

  1. j) famine, disease, war and pestilence

What different interpretations of family and gender roles are being voiced in this information? To what extent do these differing viewpoints correspond or clash with Western notions of family?

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A Down-to-Earth Approach 12th edition by James Henslin

Complete the Module 5 portion of the Explore and Analyze assignment.

Step 1: Copy and Paste the 2 links to read the following transcript and article.

https://lms.carrington.edu/lms/content/1510/51303/SOC101/SOC101_M5_Explore_assignment.html

Reference:
McCarthy, J. (2004). Defending and attacking polygamy in Saudi Arabia [Audio]. Retrieved from https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3499026

Reference:
Rosenbaum, D. E. (2004). Ideas & trends: Legal license; Race, sex and forbidden unions. In Marriage and the Family. Retrieved from http://ethemes.pearsoncmg.com/0205394213/article_13/index.html

Step 2: Submit your response as a Microsoft Word document.

What different interpretations of family and gender roles are being voiced in this information?
To what extent do these differing viewpoints correspond or clash with Western notions of family?
Your response should be a one-page (300-350 words) report that makes informed references to this module’s materials.

What did Link and Phelan mean when they claimed that social factors are “fundamental causes” of illness? How has medicine produced what we call “scientific racism”?

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Social factors are “fundamental causes” of illness

1. What did Link and Phelan mean when they claimed that social factors are “fundamental causes” of illness?

2. How has medicine produced what we call “scientific racism” (look at the Lundy Braun reading)?

3.What is disease (see Canguihem)?

Describe what the future of privacy looks like Discuss whether or not there a need to rethink the concept of privacy in the digital age? Why or why not?

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Week 2 Soc

Now that you have seen that digital technology has affected sociology, it is time to try your sociological skills and knowledge on the concept of privacy. In a 3-4 page paper please do the following: Explore how privacy has changed in response to digital technology and dataveillance;

Describe what the future of privacy looks like Discuss whether or not there a need to rethink the concept of privacy in the digital age? Why or why not? This paper will need to include both valid references and also some of your own thinking outside the box, just make sure to make a valid defense of what you develop from your own thoughts if there is no reference to back it up! Remember to follow APA formatting. Submit your completed assignment to using the instructions below.

Check the Course Calendar for specific due dates. Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the “.docx” extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:

Explore how privacy has changed in response to digital technology and dataveillance; Describe what the future of privacy looks like. Discuss whether or not there a need to rethink the concept of privacy in the digital age? Why or why not?

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Week 2

Now that you have seen that digital technology has affected sociology, it is time to try your sociological skills and knowledge on the concept of privacy.

In a 3-4 page paper please do the following:

Explore how privacy has changed in response to digital technology and dataveillance;
Describe what the future of privacy looks like.
Discuss whether or not there a need to rethink the concept of privacy in the digital age? Why or why not?

Critically discuss Rostow’s 5 stages of Growth theory and the criticism levelled against it? How can it be applied in the South African context?

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Rostow’s 5 stages of Growth theory and the criticism levelled against it? How can it be applied in the South African context?

Write in your own words in 600–800 words (excluding cover page, contents page and reference list, word count applies to the introduction, main body and conclusion).

Technical: Provide a cover page that indicates surname, student number and the title of the assessment; reference list; an introduction and conclusion; logical flow; spelling, grammar Provide a cohesive argument; support the argument with evidence (theory/ concepts) from the class and additional readings.
Analysis/ application/ examples/ critique – quality. Ensure that all points are covered as per the assignment requirements for the discussion.

Essay/ assignment instructions
Critically discuss Rostow’s 5 stages of Growth theory and the criticism levelled against it? How can it be applied in the South African context?

What role has digital technology played in increasing levels of unemployment? Discuss some of the structural changes and workforce changes that organizations have had to make in the last 5 years to account for advancements in technology? How has this impacted society?

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Technology

Now that you have been introduced to the many concepts that technology affects the world, it is now your turn to demonstrate your knowledge of the way digital sociology is involved in the employment industry.

Using material from the lecture as well as additional resources, and in 3-5 pages do the following:

How has having access to digital technology positively contributed to increasing employment?
What role has digital technology played in increasing levels of unemployment?
Discuss some of the structural changes and workforce changes that organizations have had to make in the last 5 years to account for advancements in technology? How has this impacted society?

When, why and how did patriarchal relations of power between men and women emerge in human history? What is the difference between sex and gender? According to West and Zimmerman, why is “doing gender” unavoidable?

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Sex and gender

These are the questions

1.When, why and how did patriarchal relations of power between men and women emerge in human history?

2.What is the difference between sex and gender? According to West and Zimmerman, why is “doing gender” unavoidable?

3.Why does Goldman suggest that marriage is a vehicle for subjugating women? How does monogamy perpetuate the subjugation of women?

4.Why are equal rights like universal suffrage insufficient solutions to gender oppression? According to Goldman, what would it take to achieve a fully feminist liberation?

5.Why are Liberal solutions to queer oppression – gay marriage, don’t ask don’t tell, and hate crime laws – insufficient and even counterproductive in achieving true queer liberation?