All of the following are true regarding Environmental Issues of the day, except one. Which one is not true? Question 17 options: The textbook connects the rapid growth in world population over the last few centuries as a big contributor to environmental problems like overconsumption and waste disposal. Where population growth may be more concerning in less-developed countries, water and air pollution are very much a problem for modern countries like the U.S... Global Warming, a part of the natural cycles of climate change on earth over millions of years, and not influenced by human activities, does not mean that we cannot do something to address the problem. Rainforests are important because they hold so much of the earth's biodiversity, and an important part of regulating the carbon cycle of the earth.
All of the following are true regarding Environmental Issues of the day, except one. Which one is not true?
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The textbook connects the rapid growth in world population over the last few centuries as a big contributor to environmental problems like overconsumption and waste disposal. |
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Where population growth may be more concerning in less-developed countries, water and air pollution are very much a problem for modern countries like the U.S... |
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Global Warming, a part of the natural cycles of climate change on earth over millions of years, and not influenced by human activities, does not mean that we cannot do something to address the problem. |
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Rainforests are important because they hold so much of the earth's biodiversity, and an important part of regulating the carbon cycle of the earth. |
One of the following below is not a good example of either Cultural Loss or Cultural Lag? Which one is not a good example?
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In real cases, most Eskimos in northern Canada have replaced dog sleds with snow mobiles. Eskimos who were not adopting snow mobiles were said to be dealing with Cultural Lag. |
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Conservatives who follow traditional beliefs and conservative religions will struggle with some Cultural Lag in a modern scientific society. |
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When Americans eventually substituted card games, board games, and backyard hobbies for television, social media, and computer entertainment, this was an example of Cultural Loss. |
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Assimilation and Acculturation both have the potential to bring about either Cultural Lag, Cultural Loss, or both. |
When you see a culture group take another culture's food and modify it a little to their own taste, or adopt a musical song from another culture but alter it a little to suit their own musical taste, this is called _______ under culture change.
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assimilation |
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invention |
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acculturation |
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syncretism |
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diffusion |
One of the following statements below is untrue regarding the terms gemeinschaft, gesellschaft, organic solidarity, and mechanical solidarity. Which one is false?
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Where gemeinschaft is more aligned with mechanical solidarity, gesellschaft is more aligned with organic solidarity. |
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An example of gemeinschaft would be more communal and less competitive type societies. |
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Mechanical Solidarity speaks to the solidarity within Industrial and especially Post-Industrial societies, hence the word "mechanical". Organic solidarity is seen more in those agriculture and ranching-based societies of the world, hence the word "organic". |
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Organic Solidarity's hope of a recognition of interdependence among much specialization in society is negatively impacted by the reality of things like anomie, disenchantment, and cultural lag within modern societies. |
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