chapter 11 quiz

What is one of the key differences between hunting and gathering societies and horticultural societies?

Horticultural societies tended to have more permanent settlements.

What did Barbara Ehrenreich find in her research (described in her book Nickel and Dimed) on minimum-wage service jobs?

Low wages, lack of benefits, and grueling hours often make it difficult for these workers to pay even basic bills

Dewey runs a t-shirt company in New York City. She sources cotton from farmers in India, has it processed in Vietnam, and then has it shipped to Mexico, where the cotton is cut and sewn into shirts. The plain t-shirts are then shipped to Dewey's boutique storefront in Brooklyn, where she screen prints her own designs onto them and sells them. This company's practices are an example of __________ integration.

deep

Lilyanna recently took over as CEO of a large cosmetics company. She thinks it's important to engage in corporate social responsibility, so she __________.

implements a plan to reduce the firm's environmental impact and ceases testing products on animals

Fran is a call center customer-service worker who has a script she's supposed to strictly follow when she responds to customer complaints. One day, a customer is extremely rude to her and Fran departs from the script and asks her to be more polite and respectful. What kind of strategy is this is an example of?

individual resistance

Early in his career, Roland read about the development of the microchip used in computers. A few years later, he was one of the first people to purchase a computer to assist in managing his business accounts. Roland participated in the start of which revolution?

information

In 2008 and 2009, under the Obama administration, the United States government initiated a large-scale economic bailout of the banking and auto industries. The government invested enormous amounts of money and, as a result, became the majority shareholder in some corporations. According to the text, this means that the United States

is a mostly capitalist nation, but it also has a degree of socialism in government subsidies to businesses.

In Great Britain, the government owns the British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC, which is the world's largest television and radio broadcasting service. This tells you that Great Britain is

partially socialist.

Publicly owned and operated schools, federally mandated health care coverage, and tax incentives for business are all examples of what?

socialist elements in the U.S. economy