Study guide

The study of human populations and their impact on the natural world is called what?

Social ecology

What is an example of a study of demography?

Sociologists that study populations

The Environmental Defense Fund hires scientists, economists, and lawyers to lobby the government and to educate the public about the environmental consequences of modern life. They brag that they had a part in passing important elements of the Clean Air Act, California's emissions rules, and a treaty to phase out CFCs. With what era of the environmental movement is this sort of organization most commonly associated?

Third era

What is a group of medical treatments and products called that includes practices like acupuncture, homeopathy, hypnosis, and meditation, as well as traditional healers like shamans and movement therapies like Pilates?

- Alternate Medicine

For whom could celebrity stalking be seen as an obligation?

The press/paparazzi

According to Armand Mauss, what happens in the "incipient" stage of a social movement?

Because if it succeeds, it is incorporated into the dominant culture, but if it fails it ceases to exist

What activity is part of a fan's relationship with a celebrity?

Being a fan/supporting them

According to Garrett Hardin, how can social dilemmas be solved?

By people in society changing their behavior

When African Americans joined a protest movement because it was harder for them to vote than it was for white Americans, they were acting out of what?

Collective behavior

What theory of collective behavior would suggest that when crowds come together a "mob mentality" takes over and rational thought disappears?

Contagion theory

What is one of the categories of urbanites identified by Herbert Gans in his ethnography Urban Villagers

Cosmopolites, singles, ethnic villagers and the deprived& trapped

What do large numbers of people form when they come together?

Crowd

Today, many young people face an unprecedented problem: what to do when their parents try to friend them on Facebook or another social networking site. Technology has given us unprecedented ways to document our lives online, but some are not quite sure how to share this documentation with older generations. What is this problem called?

Cultural Lag

Anna's father tried a low-carb diet for a while, but stopped when he became aware of a new diet called "paleo." This is an example of what?

Fad

Since ordinary consumers do not have the same expertise to evaluate prescription drugs, pharmaceutical companies often appeal to desires for what?

For a happy relationship at home, at work, and with friends

People who take advantage of a public good without contributing to it are called what?

Free riders

What environmental activist is credited with organizing the first Earth Day?

Gaylord Nelson

Epidemiologists are currently studying the role of ________ in the spread of diseases globally.

Global Climate Change

What sort of pollution is responsible for global warming?

Green house gasses

What do sociologists call the customs and values expressed in a particular place and in the interactions of the people who hang out there?

Idioculture

King and Bearman found that in the years when the diagnostic criteria of autism changed, the odds of a patient being diagnosed with autism what?

Increased

What part of Stuart Hall's theory resembles the magic bullet model

Individuals consume media without knowledge

Jordan has been suffering from sinus pain for several months, and his physician prescribes over-the-counter decongestants and acupuncture. This is an example of ________ medicine.

Intergrative

Increasingly over the second half of the twentieth century, people in every nation came to watch more of the same movies. What would your text call this phenomenon?

Mass behavior

According to a controversial study published in the British medical journal The Lancet, before the United States invaded Iraq, about 5.5 people out of every thousand would die each year, but after the invasion, that number rose to over 13. This study was attempting to measure what?

Mortality Rate

If someone starts taking public transportation and riding a bicycle, this person is reducing his or her what?

Reducing human impact on the environmenth

According to John Caughey, what is the contemporary American equivalent of interacting with gods, spirits, or ancestors?

Relationship between fans and celebrities

What sort of rural areas are most likely to experience a "rural rebound"?

Rural counties near urban centers, or with scenic amenity values

Talcott Parsons researched ________ from a structural functionalist perspective

Sick Role

How does Robert Bellah believe that style enclaves are different from "real communities"

Style enclaves are likely to remain more private and segmented, focused on there own self interests rather than the large group life

One organization that conducts large-scale research studies specifically on American college students to determine health behaviors and develop support programs and services for them on a wide variety of health-related issues is the

The American College Health Association

Encoding/decoding

The assumption that media consumers automatically accept whatever meaning is in the "texts" they consume is called what?

On the third Wednesday of every month, a bar and grill has a "backgammon night." The bar provides backgammon boards and pieces, and a fairly regular group of players come in, share a few drinks, and play backgammon together. What is this an example of?

Third place

7. Although it might cause a great deal of harm in the long run, individual companies have an economic interest in fossil fuels. What is it called when the pursuit of individual gain leads to loss for a larger group?

Tragedy of the commons

What would be an example of a "positive check" on population growth?

War, famine and disease

When our individual, genetic, and physiological illness and disease risks are exacerbated by social factors like the neighborhood where we live, race, ethnic and class inequality, and corporate and governmental policies and practices, this is referred to sociologically as what?

deprivation amplification

What is an effect of food deserts for minorities?

poorer quality housing in lower income neighborhoods