Ecological Conceptions
Ecological Connections
Ecological Contestations
Misc.
Bonus
100
Define ecological conceptions.
Ecological knowledge
100
What was the name of the article written by Garret Hardin which said that looking after your own self-interests only has harmful consequences.
The Tragedy of the Commons
100
What is the Conflict based approach (don't have to be exact)?
If something already hasn’t been done because some powerful interests are preventing it.
100
True or False? Most of the farmers in Iowa are members of the PFI.
False.
100
Why would one think knowledge shouldn't be cultivated through monologic ways? What are other ways do you think one can inform people within a group?
Dialogic consciousness is more viable for a liberatory education that emphasizes on true trust/discussion
200
Give an example of people who use top-down monologic ways of cultivating knowledge?
Religious leaders and political leaders
200
Sentiments promote interests, but interests do not promote sentiments. True or False?
False
200
What sociologist came up with double politics--honey and vinegar?
Randy Stoecker
200
Who is the author of our book?
Michael Mayerfeld Bell
200
Why, after so many years of environmental education, do we still have environmental problems?
It is hard to put our knowledge into action because of the way our lives are organized.
300
"Education is about trust and the social relations in which we gain a sense of what to pay attention to." True or False?
True
300
Which of the following is NOT one of the solidarities in the Dialogue of Solidarities? a. Solidarity of trust b. Solidarity of interests c. Solidarity of sentiments
Solidarity of trust
300
What are nodal people?
People positioned at the intersection of networks.
300
True or False? Hardin said that his theory of the Tragedy of the Commons could be applied to many other environmental problems.
True
300
If you wanted to start a grassroots environmental movement, how would you go about?
Discuss
400
"Knowledge is a matter of identity and social relations of trust that shape the identity" What is this the definition of?
Cultivation of knowledge
400
What is the glue that holds the solidarity of sentiments and the solidarity of interests together?
Trust
400
Identify two of Stoecker’s four factors to consider in deciding between conflict or consensus.
1. Openness of decision maker 2. Implementation power decision maker have 3. Structure of alliance that shape how they will feel compelled to act 4. Stability of all of the above
400
Why did Carter order a grain embargo on the Soviet Union?
Because of its invasion of Afghanistan
400
The author tells us that it is not the common ownership of resources that led to the tragedy of the commons, but rather_____?
Individualism
500
What is a phenomenological rupture?
When one has an experience that causes them to doubt the bases of trust upon which they had long committed themselves to their cultivation of knowledge
500
Which of the following is NOT a criticism of Hardin’s theory? a. He assumes that the herders do not communicate with each other. b. He assumes the herders will not notice the overgrazing of pastureland before it is too late. c. He assumes people are complex and that they are also moved by their sentiments.
c. He assumes people are complex and that they are also moved by their sentiments.
500
What spurred the animosity between the Iowa farmers and the Iowa State University?
1980s Farms Crisis: prices plummeted, inflation skyrocketed.
500
Which approach was, Saul Alinsky, the person who catalyzed the first environmental justice movement, an advocate of?
The conflict based approach.
500
What is the "problem of collective action"?
In a world of self-interested actors, how can we get people to cooperate for their own benefit?
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