Chapter 10: Global Inequality

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

Capital flight

Slavery in the pre-Civil War America 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

If a sociologist says that nations evolve towards more advanced technology and more complex industry as their citizens learn cultural values that celebrate hard work and success, she is using ______ to 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

Relative poverty

Faith has a full-time job and two children. She has enough money for the basics ans can pay 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 is the unwillingness to recognize

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

Maya is a 12 yr 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 an American own, a mining company owns all stores and most of the houses. They sell goods to the workers at inflated prices, offer house rentals for twice what a mortgage would be, and make sure to always pay the workers less than needed 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

Debt slavery

If a sociologist 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 nations 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 jobs, pumping money into the local economy, and improving transportation infrastructure.

Functional

One flaw in modernization is the unwillingness to recognize

Its inherent ethnocentric bias

A sociologist working from a symbolic interaction perspective would

Want ti 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-to-day basis