Sociology Chapter 10 Test Review

An example of slavery, according to Anti-Slavery International, is:

Factories using child labor

Which is an effect of absolute poverty that also contributes to its cyclical nature?

Lack of education

Women's employment outside the agricultural sector remains under 20 percent in all of the following except:

Northern Africa

Which statement explains why Immanuel Wallerstein's classification is preferred by sociologist?

less biased and appear less ethnocentric

The two regions with the with the highest risk of social unrest are:

Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East-North Africa region.

Which social class is quickly disappearing from modern economies?

Middle class

Which trend has the World Bank seen in its study of poverty in low-income nations? a. Equal numbers of men and women live in poverty. b. More men live in poverty than women. c. More women live in poverty than men. d. Children can avoid living in poverty if they live with their fathers.

More women live in poverty

88 million people live on less than $1.00 a day. These people are said to be living in ________.

Absolute poverty

Which continent has the greatest number of impoverished nations in the world?

Africa

In the United States, where outsourcing is almost always addressed negatively, companies still get away with outsourcing. How do they do this?

Americans want lower prices for their consumable products, and the only way for companies to deliver those low prices is to outsource the work to cheaper laborers

Which continent has the largest number of people living in poverty in the world?

Asia

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was created by:

Core Nation

How is global stratification different from social stratification?

Global stratification examines a myriad of different types of prejudice and inequality, while social stratification covers the social class and standing of individuals.

Marie babysits as a form of income while she is in college. Because the amounts she gets per job are not huge, Maria never bothers to report her earnings to the IRS. Maria is a part of the ________.

Underground economy

In recent times, scholars have been trying to sort our why the countries on the continent of Africa, as a whole, have trouble competing to today's global, capitalist economy. While an answer to this question is complex and carries with it many ambiguities, most scholars point to European colonialism as a key to understanding the current state of Africa. A sociologist studying this topic, would ascribe to which theoretical paradigm?

conflict theory

Immanuel Wallerstein's classification of nations uses which set of terms?

core nation, peripheral nation, semi-peripheral nation

Which number does the World Bank use to determine the status and classification of each nation? a. Gross National Income b. Gross Domestic Product c. Purchasing Power Parity d. Organization for Economic and Cooperative Development data

Gross National Income per Capita

Areas that once had vast economic growth and large amounts of industry, but are now suffering from the effects of outsourcing are going through a period of:

Deindustrialization

Child labor and sweatshops have existed since the Industrial Revolution and even before that. Many products sold today are created in these sweatshops, even though, living in the 21st century, we like to think we are above such practices. What is one practical way we can try and stop multinational companies from using such labor?

research products before buying

Which statement would you find in the analysis of poverty by Neckerman and Torche?

Once poverty has entered an geographic location, it is very difficult to get rid of.