Exam 11: Critical Theory Perspectives on Globalization: Inequality, Imperialism, and Injustice

In developing countries, women work mostly in the informal sector, performing jobs that mimic housework, such as cleaning, sewing, and cooking.

How does the critical theory perspective understand exploitation?

According to the critical theory perspective, growth is a ______ game, a process by which a dominant country systematically extracts profits from a subordinate country.

Which perspective would argue that the development of the West is the result of the conquest, exploitation, and marginalization of other societies using military, economic, and cultural means?

______ is the practice of paying off loans with direct labor instead of currency or goods.

According to world systems theory, ______ have the greatest difficulty because they struggle to keep from falling backward while using government intervention to attempt to advance.

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following are ways in which groups are marginalized?

The critical theory perspective emphasizes a set of dynamics they refer to as ______, which explains lack of development in terms of colonialism and oppression.

Which perspective would most likely argue that the development of the West was a result of deeply rooted systemic and historical processes?

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 divided the known world for colonization by which two European powers?

According to the critical theory perspective, why were Western states (like Portugal and Spain) able to colonize other parts of the world?

______ is the forceful extension of a nation's authority to other peoples by military, economic, and political domination.

Which theory, borrowing from Marxism, explains how colonialism reinforced capitalism and enabled capitalism to survive by exploiting the peripheral countries of the world?

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. The proliferation of plantations to produce cash crops resulted in ______.

The relative price of exports and imports is better known as ______.

If, over time, it takes larger quantities of exports of raw goods, like coffee beans, to earn enough money to buy a constant amount of imported manufactured goods, like refrigerators, we would say the country has experienced declining ______.

______ is the deep-seated disparity in the distribution of wealth and power generated by colonialism and dependency.

The conquest and exploitation by the European states of poorer peoples and lands in Latin America, Africa, and Asia is better known as ______.

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. According to the critical theory perspective, globalization is the result of which of the following influences?

Through the lens of the critical theory, to which of the following does the concept of the digital divide refer?