1.1 PerspectivesIB Environmental Systems and Societies SL: Flashcards
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Define perspective.
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- Define perspective.
- How a situation is viewed and understood by an individual, based on a mix of personal and collective assumptions, values and beliefs.
- Name four factors that inform perspectives.
- Any four of: sociocultural norms, scientific understanding, laws, religion, economic conditions, local and global events, lived experience.
- Define values.
- Qualities or principles that people feel have worth and importance in life.
- How can the values of an organisation be seen?
- Through its advertisements, media, policies and actions.
- What can a values survey be used for?
- To investigate the perspectives of a particular social group towards an environmental issue.
- Define worldview.
- A lens shared by a group of people through which they perceive, make sense of and act within their environment.
- What shapes worldviews?
- Culture, philosophy, ideology, religion and politics.
- What is an environmental value system?
- A model showing the inputs that affect our perspectives and the outputs that result from them.
- Name the three broad categories of environmental worldview.
- Technocentric, anthropocentric and ecocentric.
- How does a technocentric view respond to environmental problems?
- It believes science and technology can solve them, and nature is used and managed.
- How does an anthropocentric view value nature?
- For its benefits to humans, with a duty to manage it responsibly.
- What is distinctive about an ecocentric worldview?
- Nature has intrinsic value, whatever its use to people; humans are part of ecosystems.
- Do perspectives stay the same over time?
- No. They change over time, influenced by campaigns, social and demographic change and events.
- Give three influences on the environmental movement.
- Any three of: individuals, literature, media, major disasters, international agreements, new technologies, scientific discoveries.
Written by the Exaim team, led by Shaun Daswani (Head of Upper Secondary, Improve ME Institute; MSc Financial Mathematics, Imperial College London; BSc, UCL) and Jason Daswani (operational lead, Improve ME Institute; LSE).