Chapter 8

Question 1

Any category, condition, or thing that exists or is understood to have certain characteristics because people socially agree that it does

Answer 1

Social Construction

Question 2

Natural parcel of land, more or less unaffected by human forces; increasingly, wilderness is viewed as a social construction

Answer 2

Wilderness

Question 3

Emphasizing the significance of concepts, ideologies, & social practices to our understanding & making of (literally, constructing) the world

Answer 3

Constructivist

Question 4

The natural world, everything that exists that is not a product of human activity; often put in quotes to designate that it is difficult if not impossible to divvy up the entire world into discrete natural & human components

Answer 4

Nature

Question 5

The ensemble of social relations in a particular place at a particular time; includes belief systems, economic relations of production, & institutions of governance

Answer 5

Social Context

Question 6

A set of imaginary categories distinguishing types of people, typically based on skin color or body morphology, which varies significantly between cultures, locations, & periods of history

Answer 6

Race

Question 7

A root, written & spoken communication; thicker deployments of the term acknowledge that statements & texts are not mere representations of a material world, but rather power embedded constructions that (partially) make the world we live in

Answer 7

Discourse

Question 8

A story with a beginning & end; environmental narratives such as “biological evolution” & “the tragedy of the commons” aid our comprehension & construction of the world

Answer 8

Narrative

Question 9

A single idea, usually captured in a word or a phrase

Answer 9

Concept

Question 10

Normative, value-laden, world-views that spell out how the world is and out to be

Answer 10

Ideologies

Question 11

Modes & methods of representation; the techniques used to tell stories, introduce & define concepts, & communicate ideologies

Answer 11

Signifying practices

Question 12

Questioning the veracity of universal truth statements, relativism holds that all beliefs, truths, & facts are at root products of the particular set of social relations from which they arise

Answer 12

Relativism

Question 13

The inevitable & ongoing process whereby humans & non-humans produce & change one another through their interaction & interrelation

Answer 13

Co-production

Question 14

Frameworks that embrace particular combinations of narratives, concepts, ideologies, & signifying practices

Answer 14

Discourse

Question 15

The idea that the landscape encountered in the 16th century was primarily pristine, virgin, a wilderness, and nearly empty of people

Answer 15

Pristine Myth

Question 16

Idealized indigenous person not corrupted by civilization, more in turn with nature

Answer 16

The Noble Savage

Question 17

The Pristine Myth is linked to the idea of what? Which is the idealized indigenous person not corrupted by civilization, more in tune with nature

Answer 17

The Noble Savage