Sociology Chapter 10

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

Relative poverty

A sociologist working from a symbolic interaction perspective would

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

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

France might be classified as which kind of nation?

Core

Dependency theorists explain global inequality and global stratification by focusing on the way that:

Core nations exploit peripheral nations

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.

Functional

Faith has a full-time job and two children. She has enough money for the basics and can pay her rent each month, but she feels that, with her education and experience, her income should be enough for her family to live much better than they do. Faith is experiencing:

Subjective Poverty

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 _________ poverty.

Absolute

In the past, the United States manufactured clothes. Many clothing corporations have shut down their American factories and relocated to China. This is an example of:

Capital flight

If a sociologist points out that core nations dominate the global economy, in part by creating global interest rates and international tariffs that will inevitably favor high-income nations over low-income nations, he is a:

Dependency theory

If a sociologist says that nations evolve towards more advanced technology and more complex industry as their citizens learn cultural values that celebrate hard work and success, she is using _______ theory to study the global economy.

Modernization theory

One flaw in modernization theory is the unwillingness to recognize _________.

Its inherent ethnocentric bias

Slavery in the pre-Civil War American South most closely resembled

Chattel Slavery

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 workers less than needed to cover food and rent. Once the workers 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 most closely resembles:

Debt slavery

One flaw in dependency theory is the unwillingness to recognize _______.

That previously low-income nations such as China have successfully developed their economies and can no longer be classified as dependent on core nations