Category: Population and the Environment

The crude birth rate______________?

Population and the Environment 31/12/2021
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A. is the annual number of live births per 1000-woman age 15-44?
B. Is the potential number of children that could be born if every woman of childbearing age bore all the children she possibly could?
C. is the number of live births per 1000 members of a population in a given year
D. enables researchers to see important difference among races. ethnic groups, classes, age groups, and other categories with in the population

The conflict perspective would note that____________?

Population and the Environment 26/12/2021
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A. Physicians serve as “gatekeepers” for the sick role either verifying a patient’s condition as “illness” or designating the patient as “recovered”
B. Patients play an active role in health care by failing to follow a physician’s advice
C. Multinational corporations based in industrialized countries have reaped significant profits by “dumping” unapproved drugs on unsuspecting Third World countries
D. The designation “healthy ” or “ill” generally involves social definition by others

Which of these is not a criticism that critical realists make of social constructionist approaches to the environment ?

Population and the Environment 15/11/2021
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A. social constructionism reminds us that all environmental issues have an important social aspect and context
B. social constructionism remains agnostic about the scientific reality of environmental issues
C. social constructionism tells us more about social interactions than the relationship between society and the environment
D. social constructionism applies standard which demand new theorizing and approaches