What are manufactured risks? Please provide an example and explain your answer.
What will be an ideal response?
Manufactured risks are risks that are produced through modernized processes. For example, global agriculture produces more than enough food to feed the world. Despite this, the economic value of food waste is estimated at billions of U.S. dollars per year. Growing the food that is wasted, accompanied by the decay of food waste, emit greenhouse gases which add billions more to economic loss. Greenhouse gases cause global warming which in turn contributes to hunger and conflict. Each of these contributes to waves of migration which can destabilize surrounding countries.
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a. formal / repressive b. informal / liberal c. covert / liberal d. none of the above
Sociologist Kingsley Dennis recounts the case of a South Korean girl harassed unmercifully over the internet for not picking up after her dog. Her transgression was caught on tape and posted to the internet. Dennis called this harassment
a. group think. c. censorship. b. virtual vigilantism. d. a witch hunt.
Brown et al. contend that while federal social policy during the New Deal era promoted racial equality, it also created and sustained racial hierarchies
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
According to sociologists, all of the following are reasons for militarism except: a. the clear reality of foreign threats
b. the economy. c. the role of the nation and its inclination toward coercion in response to perceived threats. d. patriarchy and the relationship between militarism and masculinity.