Ch. 10 Section Quiz

Maya is a twelve 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

Absolute

In the past, the U.S manufactured clothes. Many clothing corporations have shut down their U.S factories and relocated to China. This is an example of:

Capital flight

Slavery in the pre- Civil War U.S south most closely resembled

Chattel slavery

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.

Conflict theory

France might be classified as which kind of nation?

Core

Dependency theorists explain global inequality and global stratification by focusing on the way that:

Core nations exploit peripheral nations

A sociologist working from a symbolic interaction perspective would:

Want to interview woman working in factories to understand how they manage the expectations of their supervisors make ends meet and support their households on a day to day basis.

If a sociologists points out that core nations dominate the global economy in part by creating global interest rates and international tariffs that will inevitably favor high income nation over low income nations he is a:

Dependency theorist

A ____ perspective theorist might find it particularly noteworthy that wealthy corporations improve the quality of life in peripheral nations by providing workers with jibs, pumping money into the local economy, and improving transportation infrastructure.

Functional

One flaw in modernization theory is the unwillingness to recognize ___.

It's inherent ethnocentric bias

If sociologists says that nations evolve toward more advance tech. and more complex industry as their citizens learn cultural values the celebrate hard work and success she is using ___ theory study the global economy.

Modernization theory

Mike a college student rents a studio apartment. He cannot afford a TV 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:

Relative proverty

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Faith has 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:

Subjective poverty

One flaw in dependency theory in the unwillingness to recognize ____.

The previously low income nations such as China have successfully developed their economies and can no longer be classified as dependent on core nations.