Which statement is true according to the material?

• A. Suburbanization was stimulated solely by population growth
• B. The fifth revolution would be based on space exploration
• C. The human genome mapping and biotechnology could underpin a fifth revolution
• D. Environmental sociology ignores human activity

Answer: (C)

The main idea is that social change could be driven by a new kind of technological transformation—one powered by genome mapping and biotechnology. Advances in understanding the human genome and in biotech have the potential to revolutionize medicine, agriculture, industry, and how we organize work and governance. Because these developments could reshape what is produced, who has access to health advances, and how ethical and regulatory systems operate, they’re seen as able to underpin a new, fifth major shift in society. The other statements rely on overly narrow or speculative causes—suburbanization isn’t caused only by population growth, space exploration as a basis for a fifth revolution is not widely grounded in social transformation, and environmental sociology does consider human activity rather than ignoring it.