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SOCS 325 Week 4 Discussion: Environmental Stress Evaluate & describe the relationship between standards of living, fertility rates, hunger, & local environmental stress. Include one Video Media Uploa d. The relationship between standards of living, fertility rates, hunger & local environmental stress 1st Answer: The relationship between the above mentioned variables is perceived to be linear hence the relationship is curvilinear since the population growth was limited by the availability of reso...

Week 3 Discussions - Topic 3: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (Required) After reading and analyzing Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs pyramid, I would say I am mainly in pursuit of fulfilling my basic needs while being mindful of my talents and incorporating self-actualization in the process. People on my job call me the “coupon junkie”, which to me is a prized name. I believe in saving money at all angle, if I am able to, so I constantly clip coupons for groceries, personal needs, Macy’s and I s...

SOCS 325 Week 3 Article Summary (Review, Discover, and Comment) Environmental Injustice of Clean Coal Clean coal is the dirtiest of all the fossil fuels u sed as an alternate resource for many industry advances, but mainly for power generation. It is also used for many other useful things that most people are not aware of. Coal is used to break down & reduce the carbons in ore from the earth’s crust, therefore making 70 percent of steel production dependent on coal (WCA, 2016). In addition, co...

SOCS-325 Week 3 Activity – Applying Theories Education Treadmills of Production & Consumption Since most of us were young we have always been told that education is a top priority, & that without it we will be working at the local fast food place with no real job. At least that’s what my mother told me. Education has pressured students that they will be less likely to succeed in life unless they can pursue a higher education, such as a degree. The reality is that there are so many students p...

SOCS 325 Week 3 Collaborative Group Project: Recyclenergy #Recyclenergy Figur e 1.Solar Electric Generating System in California. (Anne C. Mulk ern) #Recyclenergy Two environmental issues that I feel passionate for are world pollution & recycling. Air pollution can harm us when it accumulates in the air in high enough concentrations. Millions of Americans live in areas where urban smog, particle pollution, & toxic pollutants pose serious health concerns. People exposed to high enough levels of c...

OCS-325 Week 2 Discussion: Externalities In Ch.3 Bakan takes up the economic idea of externalities (i.e. effects of transactions on third parties) and argues that the corporations’ tendency to externalize costs is at the root of many of the world’s social and environmental problems. He presents interesting examples, of cost-benefit analysis in the car industry (ex. General Motors) where passengers’ safety is concerned, of sweatshop labor in the clothing industry, and, interestingly enough,...

SOCS-325 Week 2 Article Summary (Review, Discover, and Comment) The goal of natural capitalism is to extend sound principles of the market to all sources of material value to guara ntee that all forms of wealth are as carefully stewarded as money is by facilitators of financial resources. The author states that the remedy for unsustainable market activities is the implementation of justifiable market activities. These activities include creating markets in avoided resource depletion & abated pol...

SOCS 325 Week 1 Discussion Question: Environmental Racism & Justice Compare & contrast, providing examples of each, the constructs of environmental racism & environmental justice. A system that objects poverty stricken communities of certain ethnic backgrounds to harmful corporate worksites is environmental racism. Without political or economic influence these communities are targeted because they are powerless without a voice on the decisions to locate worksites & powerless after the fact when ...

Week 1 – SOCS 325 Week 1: Defining Environmental Sociology Q: Define what Environmental Sociology means to you, and describe what an Environmental Sociologist studies. A: Environmental sociolog y means a field of sociology which deals with societal-environmental interactions and focuses mainly on the social dimensions of either the natural environment or the human-built environment. Environmental sociologist is a person who studies environmental sociology or society-environment interactions. S...

SOCS 325 Week 1 Group Project: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Figure 1. ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. (Christie McLead). #ALSIceBucketChallenge ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the bran & the spinal cold. According to Dr. Lucie Brujin, “There are two different types of ALS, sporadic & familial. Sporadic, which is the most common form of the disease in the U.S., accounts for 90 to 95 perc...