Global Sociology
How does macro issues such as an historical event affect individuals' lives?
A historical event such as a war may disrupt individuals' normal lives.
Which of the following is NOT true?
A strong dollar makes it easy for American companies to export their products.
Which of the following is NOT true about the Belt and Road Initiative?
A very limited number of countries over the world are participating or have shown interest to participate.
Which of the following is a feature of corporate capitalism?
An emphasis on free market and few restrictions on corporate power.
Which of the following does NOT reflect Xi's vision for the Belt and Road Initiative?
Building a number of military bases in countries along the Belt and Road.
Which of the following is UNTRUE?
Countries that resist neoliberalism are often vilified as socialist or communist when in fact they recognize that the state should have a role in redistribute the wealth.
Which of the following is a necessary consequence of the US dollar as the dominant reseve currency for all countries in the world?
Countries that wish to hold US dollars must export more than they import.
Which of the following is NOT consistent to the Golden Staightjacket?
Economic policies that reflect a strong goernment control of a country's economy and the market.
The transformationalist perspective is completely different from the sceptics' ideas about power, inequality and the nation-state.
False
Internationalization involves the dispersion of objects and experiences to all parts of the earth, whereas globalization involves the growth of transactions between two countries.
False.
Which of the following is consistent to the definition of winning according to the prisoner's dilemma game?
Get as many points as possible even if you do not get as many as the other player.
Which of the following is NOT a principle for successful decisions based on the outcomes of the tournament?
Hide your intention about what you would do from the other player.
Which of the following is NOT discussed in the Introduction?
How Turkey gets into financial difficulties.
Which of the following is NOT a major topic in Chapter 1?
Imperialists
Which of the following is NOT true about the World Trade Organization?
It has removed all trade barriers among its member nations.
Which of the following does NOT describe Made in China 2025
It is a plan that all high-tech products China needs must be made in China.
Which of the following is a cause rather than an outcome of trade deficit?
It occurs when a country does not produce everything it needs and borrows from foreign states to pay for the imports.
Which of the following is true about the World Trade Organization?
It stimulates free trade and expands global trade.
Which of the following describes the prisoner's dilemma?
It uses the dilemma faced by two hypothetical prisoners to illustrate rational strategies for real people in the real world.
Which of the following countries fits the characteristics of state capitalism?
Japan
Which of the following is a good strategy for the United States?
Keep a slightly growing trade deficit and increase savings.
Which of the following countries is in support of the Belt and Road Initiative?
Malaysia
Which of the following reflects the correct relationship between public issue and private trouble?
Many private troubles such as losing a job can be traced to macro public issues such as new technologies replacing labor.
Which of the following is true?
Russia was hesitant about the BRI at first, but it joined the initiative afterward when it perceives it as an opportunity.
Which of the following is NOT true about US Treasury bonds?
Selling US Treasury bonds is a losing business for the United States because the government has to pay high interest to the bond-holding countries when the bonds they hold are mature.
Which of the following is NOT true?
Singapore achieved economic success because it followed the neoliberal economic policies by keeping the government at the minimal control of its economy.
Which of the following is NOT true about tariffs?
Tariffs are paid by the exporter of the foreign country to the government that levies them. For example, the US government makes a Chinese company to pay tariffs on the goods or service it sells to the United States.
The combined meaning of the two characters that formulate the Chinese character of martial arts is
Terminate the use of weapons or fighting.
Which of the following is true?
The economies of the countries that caught up with those of developed countries had strong governments that were able to implement some policies in protection of their industries.
Which of the following is NOT a condition of the prisoner's dilemma game?
The game allows either player to make enforceable threats to the other or make a commitment to convince the other of what strategy he/she intends to take.
Which of the following is consistent to Sun Tzu's ideas?
The good fighter is not only able to secure himself against defeat, but also makes certain of defeating the enemy as well.
Which of the following is NOT discussed in the Introduction?
The pluralist perspective's superiority to the economic basis of globalization.
Which of the following is a characteristic of cooperative capitalism?
The powerful unions are able to gain government support for social protection programs for the working people.
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of capitalism?
The purpose of production is to meet the needs of the society.
Which of the following is a correct description of the Moral Law?
The ruler holds himself up to such high moral standards that the people will be in complete accord with the ruler, to the extent that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.
Which of the following is true about keeping the US dollar as the major world reserve currency?
The status of the major reserve currency enables the United States to borrow from other countries, but the United States tends to spend the borrowed money rather than making wise investment with it.
Globalization as a discourse poses a danger in an appropriate comprehension of the process of globalization, because epistemologically it is problematic to argue that societies are shaped by ideas.
True
Sceptics stress power, inequality and the importance of the nation-state.
True
The globalist perspective cosiders nation-states as weakened by international organizations such as the United Nations and International Monetary Fund.
True
The author argues that culture is affected by economic and political factors. True or false?
True.
The author argues that the pluralist tends to lose sight of the primary, domination or determination of some factors over others.
True.
Which of the following is NOT true according to the "real history of globalization"?
Western developed countries became rich through the free-market economy, so third-world counties can only catch up following the same route.
Which of the following is NOT one of the three sorts of questions asked by social analysts who are imaginatively aware of the promise of their work?
What are the psychological conditions of the leaders of the society?
Which of the following is true about the prisoner's dilemma game?
When Player 1 shows C and Player 2 shows D, Player 1 gets 0 point and Player 2 gets 5 points.
Which of the following contradicts the "official history" of globalization?
World economic powers all used non-market strategies such as tariffs to protect their economic advantages.
Neoliberalism is the ideology or belief that
anything related to the economy should be handled by the free market, not the government.
Supreme excellence in the art of war consists in
breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
According to The Art of War, during war time, it is much better to
capture as many cherriots from the enemy army as possible for one's own use.
The "model student of IMF" refers to
countries, in a sarcastic way, such as Argentina that embrace the free-market economy recommended by the IMF.
Mills says that the limits of human nature is
frighteningly broad.
Antitrust laws in the United States
have never been effectively enforced and corporate mergers continue to happen largely unimpeded by government action.
Underlying the sense of being trapped are?
impersonal inpersonal changes in the structure of continent-wide societies.
The 1953 Iranian coup d'etat orchestrated by CIA was an effort to
prevent the oil resources from falling into the hands of Iranians.
A trade deficit is the amount by which
the cost of a country's imports exceeds the cost of its exports.
The Model refers to
the free market policies of privatization of the economy in Latin America.