Sociology Quiz #8

A ________ perspective theorist might find it particularly noteworthy that wealthy corporations improve the quality of life in peripheral; nations by providing workers with jobs, pumping money into the local economy, and improving transportation infrastructure. Symbolic interactionist Conflict Functional Feminist

Functional

One flaw in modernization theory is the unwillingness to recognize________. That peripheral nations prevent semi-peripheral nations from entering the global market The importance of semi-peripheral nations industrializing Its inherent ethnocentric bias That semi-peripheral nations are incapable of industrializing

Its inherent ethnocentric bias

Mike, a college student, rents a studio apartment. He cannot afford a television and lives on cheap groceries liked dried beans and ramen noodles. Since he does not have a regular job, he does not own a car. Mike is living in: Absolute poverty Global poverty Subjective poverty Relative poverty

Relative poverty

In the past, the US manufactured clothes. Many clothing corporations have shut down their American factories and relocated to China. This is an example of capital flight. True False

True

A sociologist working from a symbolic interaction perspective would: Study how corporations can improve the lives of their low-income workers Try to understand how companies provide an advantage to high-income nations compared to low-income nations Study how inequality is created and reproduced Want to interview women working in factories to understand how they manage the expectations of their supervisors, make ends meet, and support their households on a day-to-day basis

Want to interview women working in factories to understand how they manage the expectations of their supervisors, make ends meet, and support their households on a day-to-day basis

In an American town, a mining company owns all the stores and most of the houses. They sell goods to the workers at inflated prices, offer house rentals for twice what a mortgage would be, and make sure to always pay the works less than needed to cover food and rent. Once the works are in debt, they have no choice but to continue working for the company, since their skills will not transfer to a new position. This closely resembles chattel slavery. False True

False

Maya is a 12-year-old girl living in Thailand. She is homeless, and often does not know where she will sleep or when she will eat. We might say that Maya lives in global poverty. True False

False

A sociologist who focuses on the way that multinational corporations headquartered in core nations exploit the local workers in their peripheral nation factories is using a ________ perspective to understand the global economy. Conflict theory Functional Feminist Symbolic interactionist

Conflict theory

France might be classified as which kind of nation? Global Core Semi-peripheral Peripheral

Core

Dependency theorists explain global inequality and global stratification by focusing on the way that: Peripheral nations exploit core nations Semi-peripheral nations exploit core nations Core nations exploit peripheral nations Core nations and peripheral nations exploit semi-peripheral nations

Core nations exploit peripheral nations