SOCI1000 Chapter 10 Practice Questions

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 _________________. 1. Global poverty 2. Subjective poverty 3. Absolute poverty 4. Relative poverty

Subjective

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. 1. Subjective 2. Absolute 3. Relative 4. Global

Absolute

Slavery in the pre-Civil War American South most closely resembled ________________. 1. Chattel slavery 2. Debt bondage 3. Relative poverty 4. Peonage

Chattel

France might be classified as which kind of nation? 1. Global 2. Core 3. Semi-peripheral 4. Peripheral

Core

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. 1. Functional 2. Critical sociology 3. Feminist 4. Symbolic interactionist

Critical sociology

. In a B.C. town, a mining company owns all the stores and most of the houses. It sells goods to the workers at inflated prices, offers house rentals for twice what a mortgage would be, and makes sure to always pay the workers less than they need 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 ______________. 1. Child slavery 2. Chattel slavery 3. Debt slavery 4. Servile marriage

Debt slavery

If a sociologist points out that corporate interests dominate the global economy, in part by creating global trade agreements and eliminating international tariffs that will inevitably favour the ability of capital to invest in low wage regions, he or she is a _______________________. 1. Dependency theorist 2. Globalization theorist 3. Modernization theorist 4. Symbolic interactionist

Globalization

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 ___________________. 1. Global poverty 2. Absolute poverty 3. Subjective poverty 4. Relative poverty

Relative

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. 1. Functional 2. Critical sociology 3. Feminist

Functional

If a sociologist says that nations evolve toward 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. 1. Modernization theory 2. Dependency theory 3. Globalization theory 4. Evolutionary dependency theory

Modernization

11. One flaw in dependency theory is the unwillingness to recognize ____________________________________. 1. That previously low-income nations such as China have successfully developed their economies and can no longer be classified as dependent on core nations 2. That previously high-income nations such as China have been economically overpowered by low-income nations entering the global marketplace 3. That countries such as China are growing more dependent on core nations 4. That countries such as China do not necessarily want to be more like core nations

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2. One flaw in modernization theory is the unwillingness to recognize____________________________________. 1. That semi-peripheral nations are incapable of industrializing 2. That peripheral nations prevent semi-peripheral nations from entering the global market 3. Its inherent ethnocentric bias CHAPTER 10. GLOBAL INEQUALITY • 450 4. The importance of semi-peripheral nations industrializing

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A sociologist working from a symbolic interaction perspective would ____________________________________. 1. Study how inequality is created and reproduced 2. Study how corporations can improve the lives of their low-income workers to try to understand how companies provide an advantage to high-income nations compared to low-income nations 3. 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-today basis

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15. Dependency theorists explain global inequality and global stratification by focusing on the way that ____________________________________. 1. Core nations and peripheral nations exploit semi-peripheral nations 2. Semi-peripheral nations exploit core nations 3. Peripheral nations exploit core nations 4. Core nations exploit peripheral nations

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