Discuss the origin of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and provide five of the goals.
What will be an ideal response?
As the Millennium Development Goals approached their final years, the U.N. adopted the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. Five goals of the SDG include 1) no poverty, 2) zero hunger, 3) quality education, 4) gender equality, and 5) climate action.
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Marijuana
a. is far more potent today than in past years. b. can cause brain or chromosome damage. c. leads to subsequent heroin use. d. is not prescribed by physicians for various ailments.
Which of the following policies was part of the racialization of the state?
A. Schools were racially segregated and unequal. B. Blacks were prevented from selling to whites. C. Blacks were barred from certain occupations. D. All of these answers are correct.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Most theorists agree on when the process of globalization began. 2. Immanuel Wallerstein’s contribution to the study of globalization included his five dimensions of global cultural flows. 3. Rising fundamentalism and ethnic conflicts reflect a heterogeneous strong consequence of globalization. 4. Ritzer’s Mcdonaldization draws inspiration from Weber’s iron cage.
The chapter notes that Duke University has changed its name twice and yet people accept that it remains the same institution, while the tobacco company Philip Morris changed its name to Altria in an attempt to shake its negative reputation as a cigarette manufacturer and remake itself into a different institution. These two examples highlight the idea of social identity as
a.) a construct that no longer has meaning in the postmodern era b.) a collection of social roles that an institution will or will not fill c.) a collection of individual stories told between people d.) determined by the social group in which people are born