Sociological Concepts
This concept includes forms of expression that represent a particular nation, ethnic group, religion, etc.
What is culture?
What is manifest destiny?
This labor organizer was responsible for rallying farms workers in the United States
Who is Cesar Chavez?
This book by Rachel Carson was a major impetus for changing attitudes about agriculture, pesticides, chemicals, the environment, etc
What is Silent Spring?
What are dams?
This term is used to describe a system in which some people are above others in a social order and can control distribution of resources
What is hierarchy?
This figure in US history envisioned a nation made up of small, subsistence farms and homesteads and a generally agrarian style of life?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Agricultural laborers were the members of some of the first of these organizations, which represented workers in their fight for better compensation and conditions
What are unions?
Industrial agriculture is a primary source of emissions of this greenhouse gas
What is methane?
What is a watershed?
This form of agriculture is characterized by a "spiritual" connection to the land and its features, and based on a profound respect for the land and its resources which are not seen as "separate" from humans
What is indigenous agriculture?
This economic system was popular during Britain's imperial age and held that all lands in an empire should be used to send raw materials to the mother country while trying to restrict and eliminate trade between colonies and non-imperial places
What is mercantilism?
This program brought farm laborers from Mexico to the United States during wartime in order to aid in the production of food for the war effort
What is the Bracero Program?
This concept posits that leaving a resource to be owned "in common" will contribute to ruin because of human inability to prevent over-exploitation?
This particular crop was responsible for a large percentage of the water use in California in recent years
What are almonds?
This form of agriculture and land use is characterized by a belief that land exists for human use, and proper management is based on the use of rationalism, science, technology, etc.
What is European-style agriculture?
This is the process by which the land in Britain was gradually parceled in order to create a system of ownership and property rights which reduced common access to the land
What is enclosure?
This system emerged after the Civil War and was characterized by agricultural laborers who worked in poor conditions to produce a harvest for sale by large-scale farm owners
What is sharecropping?
This concept was a response to another, declaring that environmental ruin was a result of the hyper-consumerism that results when firms attempt to cash in the use of a resource
What is tragedy of the commodity?
What is aquaculture?
This phrase describes a theory which posits that social life is constructed through the interpretation of "ideas" and socialization contributes to the reinforcement of particular conceptions of a "thing"
What is symbolic interactionism?
These laws were enacted by the British government and held that certain forest "crops" were the property of the monarch and government, therefore (in theory) prohibiting their harvest by private colonial citizens
What are the Broad Arrow Acts?
This process by which farms are increasingly owned by large banks or investment firms as part of a large-scale operation, rather than local farmers, is known as the ________ of agriculture
What is financialization?
This term was related to the use of natural resources as well as our connection the the natural world more broadly, asking us to consider how problems and solutions to environmental problems tend to follow a pattern?
What is panarchy/adaptive cycles?
What are indigenous water rights?