"The Story of Stuff"In this activity, you will watch a brief video exploring where consumer goods come from and end up, then answer questions about the environmental impact of this system.This 2007 video about the life cycle of consumer products was an instant sensation in YouTube's early days. The producer, Annie Leonard, provides a sharp critique of our production and consumption system.Watch the video (https://youtu.be/9GorqroigqM) and summarize Leonard's view on the causes of the environmental crisis in our society by answering the following questions:Do you agree with Leonard's assessment?
What will be an ideal response?
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Example of a group in which race and ethnicity overlap:
A) Irish Americans B) German Americans C) Italian Americans D) Vietnamese Americans
According to the structural-functional theorist Emile Durkheim, crime a. can strengthen group cohesion
b. usually leads to negative social change. c. reflects the social inequalities in society. d. is dysfunctional to all members of society.
A social policy implication for the issue of elder abuse is that
a. adult children need to be more financially responsible for their parents b. funds should be cut to programs that shelter elders c. we must accept that elder abuse happens and we cannot prevent it d. strained families need to have more help made available to them
The analysis presented in Figure 6.1 uses a filter that:
A team of researchers is interested to know whether lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals tend to perceive higher levels of gender discrimination at work than heterosexual people. They create Figure 6.1. SEXORNT is a variable corresponding to the survey question “Which of the following best describes you? Gay, lesbian or homosexual, bisexual, straight or heterosexual?” WKSEXISM corresponds to the survey question, “Do you feel in any way discriminated against on your job because of your gender?”
Figure 6.1
a. restricts the analysis to survey years between 1972 and 2014.
b. restricts the analysis to survey years between 2010 and 2014.
c. restricts the analysis to people who describe themselves as Gay, Lesbian or Homosexual.
d. restricts the analysis to people who perceive discrimination.