week 23 - sociology Flashcards
The area of study concerned with interrelationships between people and their environment
Human ecology
Ethnocentrism is involved when ___________ industrialized nations insists that ___________ developing nations must change their practices to save the planet
energy-hungry and food-hungry
Environmental problems caused by ____________ have their effects far beyond the places where they are created
development
More than 1 billion people exposed to health-damaging __________.
Air pollution
Over 1.1 billion people lack safe and adequate drinking water due to _______.
Water pollution
Western nations account for ___ % of the world population, but ___ % of consumption
12 and 60
Creating increasing demand for products, obtaining natural resources at minimal cost, manufacturing products quickly and cheaply
Treadmill of production
Three main areas covered by environmental sociologists?
- Air pollution
- Water pollution
- Global warming
________ is the long-term heating of Earth’s surface observed since the pre-industrial period due to human activities.
Global warming
What the the two defining features of environmental sociology?
- the inseparability of human and non human natures
- the role power and social inequality play in shaping human and non human interactions
The two theoretical perspectives under the political economy approach?
- Ecological modernization
- Treadmill of production
Theory asserting that most nations are part of a worldwide interdependent economic and political system based on the unequal exchange in the division of labor
World systems approach
_______ views states, organizations, individuals, and other categories of social actors and models as creatures of world culture
World-polity theory
