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18 Cards in this Set
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Week One :: Donald Worster
What is the study of nature? |
The study of nature is an ecological look at the earth and uses graphs and data to detail the lives of plants. Different ecosystems are studied
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Week One :: Donald Worster
What is the problem with the evaluation of ecology? |
People can not be left out of the equation because they are an essential part of the ecosystem but not too much importance has to be placed on people.
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Week One :: Donald Worster
What are human modes of production? |
There are several modes of production, subsistence agriculture, manufacturing and technology are only two of them.
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Week One :: Donald Worster
What is the problem with studying modes of production? |
Not all economic modes and modes of production last and there may not be as much data collected as we think. There are also different unseen improvements in technology
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Week One :: Donald Worster
What are patterns of human perception, ideology and value? |
This is how people view the world around them and the importance they place on their environment. This means that man has a certain sense of responsibility concerning the world around them
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Week One :: Donald Worster
What is wrong with studying the patterns of human perception, ideology and value? |
It is a subjective process and can not be measured by objective data. No one can understand what other people are thinking all the time.
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Week One :: Jared Diamond
What are proximate factors? (5) |
1) Military technology based on guns, steel swords, and horses
2) European maritime technology 3) Infectious diseases endemic in Eurasia 4) European centralized political organization 5) Writing |
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Week One :: Jared Diamond
What are Ultimate Factors? |
1) Sedentary societies
2) Domesticated animals and plants 3) Number of candidate species for domestication 4) East-West axis of Eurasia vs. North-South axis of America 5) Food surpluses for the Europeans |
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Week One :: William Cronon
Why does Cronon think environmental history is useful? |
It helps one understand both general and political history and allows people to understand human change and the interaction between nature and human society
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Week One :: William Cronon
What are linear narratives? |
Show that it is best to think about the past and what other people have done and base our ideas off of theirs. We can see past successes and past failures and from this shape a better story for the future.
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Week One :: Definitions
What is social construction? |
The makeup of a society due to class, age, gender, and race.
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Week One :: Definitions
What is holoism? |
The idea that all properties of a given system cannot be determined or explained by its component parts alone. Instead, the system as a whole determines in an important way how the parts behave.
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Week One :: Definitions
What is a system approach? |
Looking at individual elements and at the interaction between parts and how the outputs are changed by the inputs to create the bigger picture
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Week One :: Definitions
What is feminism? |
Feminism is focusing on women and their rule during environmental history
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Week One :: Definitions
What is biological determinism? |
This is looking at things to say that their biological makeup decides how people behave genetically.
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Week One :: Definitions
What is ecological imperialism? |
This was the idea that the introduction of new plants, animals, and diseases really made an important impact in the American colonization period
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Week One :: Definition
What is grand narrative? |
This is an abstract idea that is thought to be a comprehensive explanation of historical experience or knowledge
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Week One :: Definition
What is ecological prophecy? |
This takes Cronon's ideas of taking stories from the past and showing what would happen in the future if certain techniques were done.
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