Describe the environmental justice movement and explain and explore three to four areas of major impact.
What will be an ideal response?
Varies. The environmental justice movement has been a movement organized at the state, local, regional levels, but also, very importantly, at the grassroots level. It has incorporated environmental justice issues of everyday citizens. It has had a significant impact in controlling hazardous facilities, urging businesses to consider environmental impact, encouraging preventative approaches to problems, expanding citizens' rights to participate indecision making, bringing concerns and action to working-class and minority Americans, and influencing how the general public thinks about the environment.
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A) 2,28 B) 31 C) 4.67 D) .01
Auguste Comte recommended that sociologists study
a. the color line. b. conflict as in agent of change. c. the things people have created. d. the ties that bind.
People with similar characteristics do not become a social group unless concrete, dynamic interrelations develop among them
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Most remarried families enjoy increased economic status
Indicate whether the statement is true or false