Question 1

According to Gerhard Lenski (1966) , in advanced industrial societies what reduces the polarization between the owning and working classes?

Accepted Answer

A)   the growth of the middle class
B)   off-shoring of low-wage jobs
C)   less social mobility
D)   a socialist government
E)   a less complex stratification system

Question 2

The United States originally started out as a peripheral nation, but by 1900 it had asserted itself as a member of the industrialized core.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Which of the following refers to a conscious policy of extending the rule of a country or an empire over foreign nations and of taking and holding foreign colonies?

Accepted Answer

A)   imperialism
B)   neoliberalism
C)   colonization
D)   postcolonial
E)   communism

Question 4

What best characterizes the intervention philosophy of the British empire?

Accepted Answer

A)   manifest destiny
B)   white man's burden
C)   fifty-four forty or fight
D)   this land is our land
E)   in his majesty's domain

Question 5

What term refers to wealth or resources invested in business with the intent of producing a profit?

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A)   capital
B)   the modern world system
C)   socioeconomic stratification
D)   industrialization
E)   an open class system

Question 6

The share of national wealth held by the top 1 percent of Americans is less than that of the top 1 percent of most European countries.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

What does the term Columbian exchange refer to?

Accepted Answer

A)   the peaceful exchange among Europeans and Native Americans of native edible plant species
B)   the spread of European notions and technologies of warfare to Native Americans, who never engaged in massive violent campaigns prior to the 1500s
C)   the spread of people, resources, products, ideas, and diseases between the Eastern and Western hemispheres after contact
D)   the exchange of culture that occurred among Native Americans and Europeans that eventually led to the first great civilizations in the Americas and, in Europe, the first classless societies
E)   the general reciprocity that characterized the relationship between Europeans and Native Americans during the first 15 years after initial contact

Question 8

What term refers to the ideological justification for outsiders to guide native groups in specific directions?

Accepted Answer

A)   intrusive ideology
B)   development philosophy
C)   development ideology
D)   coercive philosophy
E)   intervention philosophy

Question 9

Postsocialist Russia's economy was growing again by 2010, as were its birth rate and average life expectancy.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

When deciding where to locate polluting facilities, industries typically target minority and low-income neighborhoods.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

French colonial strategies incorporated both direct and indirect rule.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Many of the political, linguistic, religious, and economic distinctions among the countries of West Africa today are artifacts of colonialism.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Mass production gave rise to a culture of consumption, which has become global in scope.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

The domestic system is the economic system in which an organizer-entrepreneur supplies the raw materials to workers in their homes and collects the finished products from them.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

The current world stratification system features a substantial contrast between capitalists and workers in the core nations, and workers on the periphery.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

By promoting rural-to-urban migration, industrialization hastened the process of proletarianization, which is

Accepted Answer

A)   the separation of workers from the means of production.
B)   the shift from mills and factories to cottages and farms.
C)   elite domination of the means of communication, schools, and other key institutions.
D)   personal identification with one's own economic group.
E)   a form of communism.

Question 17

In anthropology, history, and literature, the field of postcolonial studies has gained prominence since the 1970s. Postcolonial refers to

Accepted Answer

A)   the period succeeding the slave trade.
B)   the study of social movements that, instead of rejecting colonialism, actually embraced it and transformed it for their own benefit.
C)   the study of the interactions between European nations and the societies they colonized.
D)   an up-and-coming subfield in sociology.
E)   a moral stance toward oppressed peoples.

Question 18

What best typifies the intervention philosophy of the French empire?

Accepted Answer

A)   carte blanche
B)   nom de plume
C)   mission civilisatrice
D)   coup d'état
E)   savoir-faire

Question 19

Weber argued that without Catholic ethics and values, capitalism and industrialism would have never spread beyond England.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

According to Weber, what are the three dimensions of social stratification?

Accepted Answer

A)   age, gender, and ethnicity
B)   gender, ethnicity, and race
C)   wealth, power, and prestige
D)   status, exchange, and religion
E)   the means of production, mode of production, and measure of production

Exam 18: The World System, Colonialism, and Inequality

In anthropology, history, and literature, the field of postcolonial studies has gained prominence since the 1970s. Postcolonial refers to

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What term refers to wealth or resources invested in business with the intent of producing a profit?

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What best typifies the intervention philosophy of the French empire?

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By promoting rural-to-urban migration, industrialization hastened the process of proletarianization, which is

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According to Gerhard Lenski (1966) , in advanced industrial societies what reduces the polarization between the owning and working classes?

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Weber argued that without Catholic ethics and values, capitalism and industrialism would have never spread beyond England.

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The United States originally started out as a peripheral nation, but by 1900 it had asserted itself as a member of the industrialized core.

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The current world stratification system features a substantial contrast between capitalists and workers in the core nations, and workers on the periphery.

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The share of national wealth held by the top 1 percent of Americans is less than that of the top 1 percent of most European countries.

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Many of the political, linguistic, religious, and economic distinctions among the countries of West Africa today are artifacts of colonialism.

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When deciding where to locate polluting facilities, industries typically target minority and low-income neighborhoods.

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What term refers to the ideological justification for outsiders to guide native groups in specific directions?

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According to Weber, what are the three dimensions of social stratification?

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French colonial strategies incorporated both direct and indirect rule.

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Mass production gave rise to a culture of consumption, which has become global in scope.

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What best characterizes the intervention philosophy of the British empire?

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The domestic system is the economic system in which an organizer-entrepreneur supplies the raw materials to workers in their homes and collects the finished products from them.

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Which of the following refers to a conscious policy of extending the rule of a country or an empire over foreign nations and of taking and holding foreign colonies?

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What does the term Columbian exchange refer to?

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Postsocialist Russia's economy was growing again by 2010, as were its birth rate and average life expectancy.

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