Sociology chapter 4 pt 1
another name for Cerro Rico is
Money Mountain
globalization refers to the free flow of _______ around the world
commodities, manufacturers, transportation, capital and labor
world or global culture was given a boost after the end of the second world war when the united nations and other bodies established agendas of concern for world society that included a focus on
economic development, individual rights, human rights, and egalitarian justice
for over a century, social scientists have conceptualized the world as a unitary social system, increasingly bound together by overlapping social circles of
economic exchange, competition, and cooperation
______ refers to the departure of individuals or groups from their home country to take up residence in another country
emigration
the root of the English work for "credit" is credo, the latin word for
i believe
_______ refers to the entrance into a country of individuals or groups who have left their native country to establish a new place of permanent residence
immigration
most of the European migrants to British America over the entire colonial period were ____
indentured servants
globalization refers to the free flow of _______ around the world
knowledge, culture and institutions
todays system of globalization has its defining power of structure, which Thomas L. Friedman conceives as consisting of which of the following "balances"
nation states, global markets and super-empowered individuals or organizations
globalization has its own demographic patters, which include which of the following? A rapid acceleration _________
of movement of people across national borders and of the movement of people from rural areas and agricultural lifestyles to urban areas with urban lifestyles
according to max weber, an ethnic group that entertains a subjective belief in its common decent because of similarities of _____
psychical type, customs, and memories of colonization
the stages of globalization include
the age of discover, mid 1800s to the late 1920s, and 1989 to the present
the concept of resource curse refers to
the difficulties faced by resource-rich countries, including dependence on one or a few commodities, whose prices fluctuate
the root of the english work conquistador is conquirere, which is latin for
to search for and subdue
By 800 A.D. thee was a chronic shortage of silver in Western Europe
true
almost every country with a population of at least one million that has emerged from the colonial era without succumbing to dictatorship is a former British colony
true
creative destruction refers to the view that the essence of capitalism is the perennial cycle of destroying the old and less efficient product or service and replacing it with new more efficient ones
true
five hundred years ago, the most sophisticated society in South America, the Inca Empire, was moneyless.
true
throughout the history of Western civilization there has been a recurrent hostility to finance and to those who engage in it
true
the central relationship that borrowing and lending embodies is _______
trust
in hunting and gathering societies, there _______ money
was no