Exam 20: Globalization in a Changing World

What is President Trump's rationale for rethinking all trade agreements? He thinks that free trade agreements:

Protesters against the World Trade Organization claim that it:

The feature displacing the manufacture of material goods as the basis of the production system is the:

A sociologist conducts a study about the ways in which globalization produces "compression of time and space." Which setting is best for observing this process?

The most far-reaching economic influence on social change in the modern world is considered to be:

Identify one change in information flows, and explain how this change contributes to globalization.

Transformationalists believe that globalization is a dynamic and open process that is subject to influence and change because:

An example of the World Trade Organization's ruling in favor of profits and against human rights is that it:

Which of the following would argue that compared with patterns of trade a century ago, the world economy is less global and more regionalized, meaning that trade and exchange happens only in a few geographic areas among a few groups?

The relationship between globalization and inequality is that globalization:

Which of the following is an accurate description of the relationship between the United States and the World Trade Organization?

Agricultural giant Monsanto is a leader in technology and the world's food supply. It is estimated that it has widespread influence on genetically modified crops because the amount of food sold in grocery stores that has some type of genetically modified ingredient is about:

According to the text, a "new individualism" is affecting people in their everyday lives in which:

If you were to use Jared Diamond's framework from Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed to analyze political instability in the Middle East, what are two key questions you would ask? Explain how your questions are linked to Diamond's framework.

Which of the following believe that globalization is challenging the power of nation-states?

Those who would argue that we have come to the end of an era of human history are the:

If hybridity in the global film industry is also true in the clothing industry, we might expect to see:

The World Trade Organization's position on free trade is that it:

According to Ulrich Beck, the hazards of the risk society:

Describe an example of how hybridity is present in an object, food, song, or film with which you are familiar. Your description should include a clear definition of hybridity.