Exam 10: Race and Ethnicity

What theory of global stratification would argue that a transnational clothing corporation is likely to have factories in several countries making T-shirts and will open or close locations based on cost?

The World Bank defines absolute poverty as living on less than how much money per day?

Lina is a textile worker in Madras,India,who was struggling to provide for her daughters on subsistence wages.She organized some of her co-workers into a women's cloth making cooperative and secured a loan through a government-funded community-based organization.Which of the following United Nations policy changes does this illustrate?

Which of the following is NOT part of the seven Millennium Development Goals and Targets?

The life expectancy in low-income nations is about how many years less than that of people of high-income countries?

Which statement is illustrated by the fact that women are largely excluded from participating fully in the decisions that shape the development of human settlements in cities,towns,and villages?

A community's citizens are unreliable as workers,are not committed to their employers,and are not invested in their work.According to the modernization theory of global stratification,at what stage of development is this community?

Which theory would connect atrocities in Rwanda to modernization?

What has happened to the gap between rich and poor countries over the past 50 years?

How does dependency theory differ from world systems theory?

Why might campaigns to send food and supplies to starving people in developing countries actually do more harm than good?

How does Wallerstein (world systems theory)refer to those nations that typically provide labour and raw material to heavily industrialized,technologically advanced nations?

Dependency theory emphasizes the importance of core,semiperipheral,and peripheral nations.

According to world systems theory,what kind of nation is often characterized by uneven patterns of urbanization?

Which of the following is NOT a goal of the Millennium Development project?

Through the World Bank,powerful nations prescribe that developing nations should open up,allowing more imports in and exporting more commodities.This is heralded as a form of economic restructuring and an avenue for debt repayment.Which of the following is a consequence of such measures?

According to what theory do countries go through stages called traditional,take-off,technological maturity,and high mass consumption?

Larissa is analyzing free trade agreements between countries.What perspective is Larissa most likely to use?

What are the future prospects for greater equality across and within nations?

Based on modernization theory of global stratification,citizens in Malaysia are losing their faith in the collective and believing that their own interests are paramount.In what stage of development is the nation?