In Babbitt V

question 401

Multiple Choice

In Babbitt v. Sweet Home, involving logging of areas where the spotted owl nested, the Supreme Court held that the Endangered Species Act:

• A) only applies to the killing or injuries of endangered species
• B) only applied to the killing, injuring, or removing of endangered species
• C) requires cost-benefit calculation when restrictions on economic activity are proposed to save a specie
• D) gave authority to regulate endangered species to the EPA, not the Department of Interior
• E) none of the other choices

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Definitions:

Sociological Theories

Frameworks for understanding how individuals interact within societies, institutions, and groups, explaining social behavior and phenomena.

Elaborate Descriptions

Detailed and thorough explanations or accounts of objects, events, or concepts.

Sociological Imagination

The ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society, a concept introduced by C. Wright Mills.

Social Structures

are relatively stable patterns of social relations.