Two major branches of the environmental justice movement exist. One concerns itself with environmental problems as violations of civil rights and the other is largely concerned with __________.
a. environmental rights of the white working class
b. protecting people from exposures to toxic substances
c. landfills and the like
d. global warming
Question 2The state-led development model employed in the developing world in the middle decades of the twentieth century in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa has a technical name. What is it?
a. imperfect competitive industrialization (ICI)
b. import-substituting industrialization (ISI)
c. income-stabilizing industrialization (ISI)
d. invisible trade industrialization (ITI)
Question 3Kareem's sociology professor compared society's current debate over gay marriage with the struggle faced decades ago by interracial couples. The civil rights movement awakened many Americans to injustices endured by African American citizens.
Kareem's class learned that broad shifts in people's sensibilities over long periods of time enable them to gain new perspectives on long-held ideologies. In this scenario, what kind of approach did Kareem's professor use to explain the emergence of the movement to extend the rights and benefits of marriage to same-sex couples?
a. cultural
b. economic
c. labor market
d. political
Question 4Theodicy is an explanation of __________.
a. who achieves salvation
b. how immigrants adopt new religious traditions
c. how congregations form
d. why bad things happen to good people
Question 5Who said that religion is the opiate of the masses?
a. Durkheim
b. Engels
c. Marx
d. Rousseau
Question 6TNCs often set up production facilities in export processing zones for which of the following reasons?
a. cheaper labor and fewer worker protections
b. fewer worker protections and better managerial capabilities
c. better managerial capabilities and better labor-management relations
d. better labor-management relations and simpler employment contracts
Question 7Sociologists theorize that one of the most important factors distributing people into congregations is __________.
a. age
b. personal piety
c. place of residence
d. familyincome