Sociology Chapter 10

Conflict theory

In recent times scholars have been trying to sort out why the countries on the continent of Africa as a whole have trouble competing to today's global capitalist economy while an answer to this question is complex and carried with it many ambiguities, most scholars point to European colonist as a key to understanding the current state of Africa. A sociologist studying this topic would ascribe to which theoretical paradigms?

Americans wants loser prices for their products, so companies have to deliver those low prices to outsource the work to cheaper laborers.

In the Us where outsourcing is almost always addressing negatively, companies still get away with outsourcing. How do they do this?

Wallerstein's classification uses neutral terms that allow his classification of nations to be less biased and appear less ethnocentric.

Which statement explains why Immanuel Wallerstein's classification is preferred by sociologist?

Once proverb has entered a geographic location, it is very difficult to get rid of it

Which statement would you find in the analysis of poverty by Neckerman and Torche?

More women live in poverty than men.

Which trend has the World Bank seen in its study of poverty in low-income nations?

Absolute poverty

88 million people live on one less than a dollar a day. These people are said to be lining in?

Core nations

NAFTA was created by what?

Lack of education

What is an effect of absolute poverty that also contributes to its cyclical nature?

Factories using child labor

An example of slavery, according to Anti-Slavery International, is:

core nation, peripheral nation, semi-peripheral nation

Immanuel Wallerstein's classification of nations uses which set of terms?

Sub-Saharan Africa and Middle east

What are the two regions with the highest risk of social unrest?

Global examine myriad of diff types of prejudice and inequality Social covers the social class

How is global stratification different from social stratification?

Africa

What continent has the greatest number of impoverished nations in the world?

Asia

What continent has the larger number of people living in poverty in the world?

underground economy

Maria babysitter as a form of income while she is in college. Because the amount she get per job are not big, she never bothers to report her earnings the IRS. Maria is a part of what?

Gross national income per capita

Which number does the world bank use to determine the status and classification of each nation?

Middle class

Which social class is quicky disappering feom modern economcis?

Northern Africa

Women's employment outside their agricultural remains under 20% in all of the following except where?

Industrialization

Areas that once had vast economic growth and large amounts of industry, but are now suffering from the effects of outsourcing are going through a period of?