ISS 315 Quiz Reviews MSU || with 100% Correct Answers.
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The _______ allows us to identify the links between our personal lives and the larger social forces of life. correct answers The Sociological Imagination
The term for perceiving humans as as separate from, and often above, other animals is: correct answers Human Exceptionalism
What is the def...
ISS 315 Quiz Reviews MSU || with 100% Correct Answers.
The _______ allows us to identify the links between our personal lives and the larger social
forces of life. correct answers The Sociological Imagination
The term for perceiving humans as as separate from, and often above, other animals is: correct
answers Human Exceptionalism
What is the definition of Agency in this class? correct answers the capacity of individuals to act
independently and to make their own free choices.
As discussed in Climate and Society Ch. 1, ____ is the failure to integrate knowledge about
climate change into everyday life and transform it into social action. correct answers implicatory
denial
The cumulative effect of human activities on the planet is now so pervasive that the present era is
sometimes referred to as the Anthropocene. correct answers True
Peter Berger (slide 21) believes that we are mere puppets, unable to see the societal strings that
control us correct answers False
Defining the current era by the continuous production of waste, pollution, and other negative
externalities of capitalism would be referred to as: correct answers the Capitalocene
What is the relationship between nature and culture, as discussed in this week's lecture? correct
answers It is a fuzzy relationship or a spectrum rather than a divide
The assumption that better knowledge of the science will lead to more engagement and action
regarding climate change is referred to as: correct answers information deficit model
Climate Change is a social and an ecological problem and the social and ecological are
entangled. correct answers True
Merchants of Doubt uses the example of the Radium Industry in the 1920s to shed light on
Climate Change doubt in America today. correct answers False
Merchants of Doubt informs us most of the dismissive climate change discourse. correct answers
True
Merchants of Doubt illustrated an example of the link between climate change and capitalism.
correct answers True
The discourse that insists no action is needed to address climate change is: correct answers
Dismissive
____ is socially constructed: correct answers Nations
, Daylight savings time
Money
The climate change discourse that insists on the importance of addressing worldviews, such as
the nature/culture divide, is: correct answers Integrative
____ is the process by which we make reality meaningful through shared interpretation - we
build/construct our world collaboratively correct answers Social constructionism
Even if something is socially constructed, they are nonetheless culturally and socially real and
have real impacts on everyday life. correct answers True
The climate change discourse that seeks to address the root causes of risk and vulnerability is:
correct answers Critical
The Biophysical climate change discourse relies on post-normal science. correct answers False
Emotions play a significant role in the human response to climate change. correct answers True
In the video on The Emotions of Climate Change, what sort of emotion was said to be associated
with climate change? correct answers Fear
Anger
Shame
Jeffrey Kiehl, in the "Emotions of Climate Change" video, stated that the first person to always
raise their hand and respond to a question on the emotions of climate change is always: correct
answers A women
Lesley Head argues that "___and climate change are inextricably entwined." correct answers
Grief
Anthropocentrism includes: correct answers The belief that considers human beings to be the
most significant entity of the universe.
Interpreting the world in terms of human values and experiences.
A dualistic perspective.
Ecocentrism is the most common worldview in present day Western culture (E.g. European and
North American cultures). correct answers False
After reading about anthropocentrism and ecocentrism, which perspective would likely pair well
with ecocentrism? correct answers Deep ecology
Cognitive dissonance is the perception that climate change is socially, temporally, and
geographically separate from our lives correct answers False
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