Sociology Chapter 4

According to the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom, ... ranks as the 10th freest ... etc.

United States

B/t the mid 1800s and the late 1920s, the world experience an era of globalization with ... as the dominant global power.

Great Britain

According to the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom, ... ranks as the 139th freest ... etc.

Russia

In Transparency International's 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index, where are China and Russia situated?

Situated deeply in the corrupt part of the measurement scale

In Transparency International's 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index, three countries are tied for last place as the most corrupt countries on the planet. Which country is among them?

Somalia

Thomas L. Friedman characterizes the roughly 75-year period b/t the start of the WWI and the fall of the Berlin Wall as ...

a lull or time-out b/t one era of globalization

It is ... to found a new company in the USA ... it is in continental Europe.

far less burdensome; than

Ocean freight costs ... from 1870 to 1910.

fell by more than a third

In Russia, by the beginning of the twenty-first century ... of some ... etc.

fewer than 3%

... theorists tend to look for, and find, ways that globalization ... etc.

functionalists

Youth unemployment rates tend to be ... the youth unemployment rate in the USA.

higher than

... refers to the entrance into a country of individuals or groups who have left ... etc.

immigration

Land socialism ... the development of a modern credit system.

impedes

... theorists tend to look at the meanings that people develop use, and implement ... etc.

symbolic interactionist

It is with rise of ... that the archaeological record first presents us with artifacts which we could term money.

the city as a form of human habitation

In the Spanish colonies of South America, land was allocated by the Spanish Crown via ...

the encomienda system

The root of the English word conquistador is conquirere, which is Latin for ...

to search for and subdue

The central relationship that borrowing and lending embodies is ...

trust

In hunting and gathering societies, there ... money.

was no

According to the work of political sociologists like Seymour Martin Lipset and other social scientists, ... etc. .... etc.

were far more likely; than

... refers to the departure of individuals or groups from their home country ... etc.

emigration

The percent of income earned by the poorest 10% of the population ...

is much higher in countries with higher economic freedom

The root of the English word for "credit" is credo, the Latin word for ...

"I believe"

In the USA, an entrepreneur setting up a new business faces a one time regulatory cost that amounts to ... of the US per capita income.

1.7%

Over the past 20 years, the USA has enjoyed an average annual rate of growth rate of 2.5% and this rate of economic growth is ...

67% higher than the rate of economic growth that the German and French economies mustered

Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto estimates the b/t ... of citizens in developing ... etc.

80%

A 2012 survey finds that 55% of Americans think that ... has the strongest economy in the world.

China

According to the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom, ... ranks as the 136th freest ... etc.

China

... won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for contribution to helping ... etc.

Jody Williams

Property and political institutions of British America were heavily influenced by the ideas of ..., while the property ... etc. ...

John Locke: Thomas Hobbes

... created the concept of creative destruction ... etc.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Another name for Cerro Rico is ...

Money Mountain

The opening of the ... in 1914 cut the cost of shipping goods from the East to the ...etc.

Panama Canal

The opening of the ... in 1869 reduced the length of the journey from Bombay ...etc.

Suez Canal

Where is the US situated in Transparency International's 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index?

The US is among the least corrupt countries in the world

According to Max Weber, an ethnic group is a group that entertains a subjective belief in its common decent because of similarities of ...

all of the above

According to Niall Ferguson, hostility to those who engage in finance has which of the following causes?

all of the above

According to the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom, countries with more trade freedom have ...

all of the above

According to the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom, in Russia/China ...

all of the above

For over a century, social scientists have conceptualized the world as a unitary social system, increasingly bound together by overlapping social circles of ...

all of the above

Globalization refers to the free flow of ...

all of the above

In the 2013 World's Most Admired Companies ranking, of the top fifty companies in this ranking ...

all of the above

Sociologists Andres Villarreal and Wei-hsin Yu find that globalization ... etc.

all of the above

The institutional underpinnings of British globalization as identified by Niall Ferguson include ...

all of the above

The stages of globalization include ...

all of the above

Today's system of globalization has its defining power structure, which Thomas L. Freidman conceives as consisting of which of the following "balances?"

all of the above

What is the importance of Potosi?

all of the above

Which of the following is/are accurate statements about Russia, according to the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom?

all of the above

Which of the following statements is/are accurate regarding the United States and manufacturing?

all of the above

Why do so many people in the US worry that manufacturing is collapsing, or has collapsed, in the United States?

all of the above

World/global culture was given a boost after the end of WW2 when the UN and other bodies established agendas of concern for world society that included a focus on ...

all of the above

Unemployment rates are ... in many European countries.

are lower than the USA

The ... heuristic refers to the tendency for people to judge the likelihood of ...etc.

availability

Other than in wartime, countries did not require passports ...

before 1914

The earliest known coins ...

both A and B

Which of the following statements is/are accurate regarding the BRICs?

both A and C

In the sartorial revolution that swept the world during the second era of globalization, ...

both C and d

During the second era of globalization ...

both of the above

Globalization has its own demographic patterns, which include a rapid acceleration of ...

both of the above

In countries w/o a functioning property system, ...

both of the above

The concept of resource curse refers to ...

both of the above

The encomienda ...

both of the above

The viewpoint that the manufacturing sector of the economy of the USA is in permanent decline or disappearing ...

both of the above

... theorists are consistently and high critical ... etc.

conflict

U.S. companies tend to ... any ranking of the world's best performing technology companies.

dominate

A measure of competitiveness is provided by the "Fortune Global 500," ...etc. The USA ... this ranking.

dominates

The empirical data support the position that US manufacturing is ..

expanding and prospering

A(n) ... share of people employed in Europe do not have full time jobs.

increasing

Most of the European migrants to British America over the entire colonial period were ...

indentured servants

Russia's ranking on the index of economic freedom ...

is below the world/regional averages

Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, in his book The Mystery of Capitalism, documents that in many Third world countries, poor people ...

lack clear title to their physical assets, they lack property rights to the physical assets

The laying of the first undersea telegraph cable b/t France and England in 1851 changed by a factor of ... the speed of travel of information.

nearly 100