Category: Population and the Environment

A. Karl Marx
B. Emile Durkheim
C. Max Weber
D. None of these

A. Patients judgments regarding their own state of health may be related to their gender age social class and ethnic group
B. The sick role may be more applicable to people experiencing short-term illnesses than those with recurring long-term illnesses
C. Even simple factors such as whether a person is employed or not seem to affect willingness to assume the sick role
D. all of the above

A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. labeling theory

A. predicting likely weather patterns in the future
B. understanding how human societies put pressure on the environment
C. understanding how environmental problems are distributed
D. evaluating policies for tackling environmental problems

A. duration and predictability
B. frame of mind and environmental setting
C. the sex and race of individuals present
D. intensification of people’s definition of the situation

A. the genes used cannot spread into the wider environment
B. they involve transplanting genes from one organism to another
C. we can say with certainty that they are risk-free
D. they have been accepted by consumers in all countries

A. Pre-transition stage
B. transition stage
C. post transition stage
D. initiation stage

A. pollution
B. the internet
C. urban renewal
D. deindustrialization

A. human populations tend to increase more slowly than their ability to increase the food supply.
B. agricultural production increases in a geometric fashion.
C. people could use “moral restraint” to reduce the birth rate.
D. famine war and pestilence are social problems that a population can overcome.

A. USA
B. Mozambique
C. Canada
D. Sweden