Deck 7: Political Ideologies III

Question 1

How has geography shaped environmentalist perspectives? Consider this question from the standpoint of North v.South positions on environmental challenges.

Answer 1

Answers may vary.

Question 2

Are you a feminist? Why or why not? Whatever your answer, address at least three points of evidence relating to gender inequality, as analyzed in the opening sections of this chapter.

Answer 2

Answers may vary.

Question 3

When one examines worldwide patterns of adult illiteracy, one finds

A) illiteracy is generally higher among men than women.
B) illiteracy is generally higher among women than men.
C) there is no significant difference in illiteracy among the sexes.
D) illiteracy is equal among women and men.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Mary Wollstonecraft's teachings are associated with

A) environmentalism.
B) liberal feminism.
C) socialist feminism.
D) socialist postmodernism.

Question 5

According to Aldo Leopold, humans have the responsibility of acting as ecological stewards, or caretakers, of the Earth.

Question 6

Feminism, as an ideology,

A) argues that women are morally superior to men.
B) has offered critiques of political structures but has offered no criticism of religious or economic structures.
C) opposes the political, economic, and/or cultural relegation of women to positions of inferiority.
D) supports the concept of the double day.

Question 7

During natural disasters, internationally, women tend to be less capable than men of moving out of disaster zones.

Question 8

Identify two "metanarratives" you have encountered in your life.How has each metanarrative sought to present itself as meta/above narrative?

Question 9

Le Anne Schreiber suggests that no state of consciousness seems more real and more complete than one experienced out-of-doors.

Question 10

Postmodernism is a perspective that tends to suggest that

A) ideologies are based on notions which they define as "truths"; however, these so-called truths are not independently verifiable outside the discourses of the ideologies affirming them.
B) metanarratives are defined as teachings that postmodernists believe to be absolutely true.
C) individuals should believe in God, for, without faith in God, society will become chaotic and violent.
D) both b and c are correct.

Question 11

According to John Muir, the natural world was created for the primary purpose of meeting human needs.

Question 12

Henry David Thoreau's writings focus on

A) showing that contact with nature can help individuals avoid living artificial lives.
B) arguing that nature will be best protected by a system that prices access to wilderness areas.
C) demonstrating that environmentalism will fail unless environmentalists reconcile North-South differences.
D) arguing in favor of road, highway, and urban expansion as the best way to facilitate the "harvesting" of natural resources and the distribution of nature-derived products.

Question 13

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings

A) suggest that men and women are natural equals and are equally deserving of equality of authority within the family and equality of rights within the political sphere.
B) condemn the mutually reinforcing systems of capitalism and patriarchy.
C) argue that women should not perform family duties until women's work in the family is paid on the same basis as work in a factory or industry.
D) make the case that women should be submissive to men in personal, familial relationships.

Question 14

According to the World Health Organization,

A) women are more likely than men to die in extreme weather disasters.
B) men are more likely than women to die in extreme weather disasters because men are more likely to be responsible for other family members.
C) gender differences do not explain death rates in extreme weather disasters, but age differences do account for differences in vulnerability to death and injury.
D) lack of funding from the richest of the world's states has prevented organizations like the World Heath Organization from conducting research on gender differences in survival rates for adults and children in areas affected by extreme weather.

Question 15

Look at politics and political life through the eyes of Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and Henry David Thoreau.What would constitute good government and good policy making if "good" were defined as using their value systems?

Question 16

Environmentalists such as Sue Hubbell contend that

A) individual ownership of land implies the legitimacy of full discretion over how land is used.
B) the concept of stewardship is inconsistent with ecosystem integrity.
C) Both A and B are correct.
D) None of the above is correct.

Question 17

Asra Q.Nomani argues that Islam is hostile to both feminist theory and women's rights generally.

Question 18

According to Wollstonecraft

A) love can be an obstacle to women's liberation.
B) love has no political implications.
C) patriarchy is inevitable.
D) the double day is inevitable.

Question 19

Diversity feminism is defined as feminism that

A) draws upon the experiences of women from multiple ethnic, racial, and/or cultural backgrounds.
B) combines advocacy of feminism with advocacy of capitalism.
C) accepts liberal feminism but rejects multiculturalism.
D) tries to forge alliances between Republican and Democratic women in the United States.

Question 20

NOW is an example of

A) postmodernism.
B) liberal feminism.
C) diversity feminism.
D) Aristotleanism.