Exam 1: Environment, human Systems, and Social Science

Parasitism is not classified as a symbiotic relationship.

According to the New Ecological Paradigm,humans live in a finite biophysical environment that imposes potent restraints on human behaviors.

According to the text,worldviews and paradigms are best classified as part of:

Neoclassical economists see human-environment problems in terms of market failures and resource allocation problems.

Identify and discuss the components of an ecosystem.Be sure to give examples.

Emissions trading schemes have not had much impact on producers of pollution in the United States.

Simple and homogenous societies with powerful cultural rules are characterized by _________ solidarity.

Describe ecosystem change and human-environment interaction.Be sure to give examples.

_________ is the ultimate source of the earth's energy.

Money became the most important material resource in the industrial society.

In sociology,functionalist theories are most concerned with:

Exchanges of reciprocity produce mutually beneficial relationships in a social system.

While industrialization brought about a new class structure,population growth was kept in check by frequent,large-scale outbreaks of disease.

In the neoclassical economists' view,the economy contains the ecosystem as resources bases and pollution sinks.

Discuss Allan Schnaiberg's conflict theory of human-environment interaction.

The concepts of ecosystem and environment can be used interchangeably.

_________ economics sees the economy as a growing,dependent subsystem of a materially closed,finite ecosphere.

A key feature of the Dominant Western Worldview is the value it places on nature for its own sake.

_________ claimed that the unseen hand of the marketplace would produce the best economic and social outcomes.

As discussed in the text,Durkheim thought that the struggle for scarce resources would culminate in: