Social Problems Final

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Why do states use censuses?

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1. To see how many men are available if we go to war
2. To find out how much money we can raise in taxes
3. How much food we will need to produce to feed everybody

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Phosphorous mining is the ____ largest industry in Florida in terms of revenues.

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Third

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Why does FL have so much phosphorus?

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It comes from the bones of dead aquatic creatures and FL used to be underwater.

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What is the mining ghost town that was only inhabited for about 50 years?

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Brewster, Florida

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How is phosphorus used?

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In fertilizer, toothpaste, soft drinks, and cocktails

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What are reclamation laws?

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Laws used to make mining companies return mined areas to as close as possible to their natural states after mining is complete. Strict in FL

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Many nations have deemed phosphorus a _________ _________.

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Strategic mineral

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Argued that the purpose of philosophy should be to clear up complicated language: get rid of words that have too many meanings and also words that don't have real definitions. No colors, truth, or beauty

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Karl Popper

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Argued against Wittgenstein that philosophy had traditionally been concerned with those types of issues.
He is also important for the notion of the Black Swan, which is an anomaly to a theory.

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W.E.B DuBois

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-The first African American person to receive a degree from Harvard.
-One of the founding members of the NAACP
-Known for the idea of double consciousness, or the idea that a person can feel like an outsider even in a place he or she has a right to be but their participation is curtailed in some way by discrimination.

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Likert Scale

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-Is arbitrary, or can't be measured in numerical terms. Results don't necessarily correspond with numbered values.

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Robert Bullard

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Father of environmental justice

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Environmental Justice

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Looks at environmentally damaging activities and who has to work in them.

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Treadmill of Production

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Argues that environmental degradation goes hand in hand with treating workers poorly. Original theorist is Allan Schnaiburg. Theory doesn't offer how to change things.

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Ecological Modernization

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Argues that through citizen discourse governments and industrial producers are pressured into being more ecologically minded. Says that we are capable of creating any technology to deal with any environmental mishap in the future. In reality, pace of ecological modernization may not be faster than the pace of ecological degradation.

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Gert Spaargaren and Arthur Mol

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Fathers of ecological modernization

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C.W. Mills

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Book "The Sociological Imagination" argues that people feel an unease about their lives and this results from things being beyond their control.

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Ferdinand Tonnies

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As societies modernized people were not as concerned with their duties to their communities (gemeinschaft) but were more concerned with their own individual needs (gesellschaft). Also used to describe relationships with others.

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Gemeinschaft

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Duties to the community

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Gesellschaft

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Duties to individual needs

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What two disciplines undergird sociology as physics and chemistry undergird the physical sciences?

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History and philosophy

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Max Weber

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One of the 3 forefathers of classical sociology. Wrote in "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"