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Chapter 10: Global Inequality

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Chapter 10: Global Inequality

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10-1 §10.1 source ↗

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.
  1. a.
    functional
  2. b.
    conflict theory
  3. c.
    feminist
  4. d.
    symbolic interactionist

Answer

B. conflict theory

10-3 §10.1 source ↗

A sociologist working from a symbolic interaction perspective would:
  1. a.
    study how inequality is created and reproduced
  2. b.
    study how corporations can improve the lives of their low-income workers
  3. c.
    try to understand how companies provide an advantage to high-income nations compared to low-income nations
  4. d.
    want to 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

Answer

D. want to 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

10-5 §10.1 source ↗

In the past, the United States manufactured clothes. Many clothing corporations have shut down their U.S. factories and relocated to China. This is an example of:
  1. a.
    conflict theory
  2. b.
    automation
  3. c.
    global inequality
  4. d.
    capital flight

Answer

D. capital flight

10-7 §10.2 source ↗

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.
  1. a.
    subjective
  2. b.
    absolute
  3. c.
    relative
  4. d.
    global

Answer

B. absolute

10-9 §10.2 source ↗

Faith has a 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:
  1. a.
    global poverty
  2. b.
    subjective poverty
  3. c.
    extreme poverty
  4. d.
    relative poverty

Answer

B. subjective poverty

10-11 §10.3 source ↗

One flaw in dependency theory is the unwillingness to recognize _______.
  1. a.
    that previously low-income nations such as China have successfully developed their economies and can no longer be classified as dependent on core nations
  2. b.
    that previously high-income nations such as China have been economically overpowered by low-income nations entering the global marketplace
  3. c.
    that countries such as China are growing more dependent on core nations
  4. d.
    that countries such as China do not necessarily want to be more like core nations

Answer

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

10-13 §10.3 source ↗

If a sociologist says that nations evolve toward more advanced technology and more complex industry as their citizens learn cultural values that celebrate hard work and success, she is using _______ theory to study the global economy.
  1. a.
    modernization theory
  2. b.
    dependency theory
  3. c.
    modern dependency theory
  4. d.
    evolutionary dependency theory

Answer

A. modernization theory

10-15 §10.3 source ↗

Dependency theorists explain global inequality and global stratification by focusing on the way that:
  1. a.
    core nations and peripheral nations exploit semi-peripheral nations
  2. b.
    semi-peripheral nations exploit core nations
  3. c.
    peripheral nations exploit core nations
  4. d.
    core nations exploit peripheral nations

Answer

D. core nations exploit peripheral nations

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