Exam 9: Globalization, inequality, and Development

What does the case of tobacco manufacturer Philip Morris's attempts to establish a market in Korea illustrate?

The fact that governments can allow or disallow international access to their nations supports which of the following as a significant source of globalization?

Why do specific groups oppose globalization?

Sean and Stacy are having a conversation about the ways that their personal consumer habits have a global impact.Making the links between their individual shopping experiences and the exploitation of labourers and the environment in far away places involves employing which of the following?

Extrapolating from the 1998 numbers given in the textbook,what would it cost annually to provide water and sanitation for everyone in the world?

Barry argues that the poorest nations are the least likely to be helped and the most likely to be harmed by foreign-controlled economic growth strategies.What does his argument stem from?

What does Samuel Huntington,in the textbook,say about this question: Should the West promote world democracy?

What do we call the domination of one nation's economy by another?

When Dion was hired at a large office supply chain store,he had to memorize scripts for every possible interaction with customers and every procedure he may have to perform.What process is at work in Dion's workplace?

Who defined the concept of McDonaldization?

State policy is critically associated with national economic growth.

The global transmission of American values and American business culture has become synonymous with which of the following terms?

Make the case that globalization is another form of imperialism.

The Centre for Economic Policy Research finds that in the 1980s and 1990s openness to international trade and foreign investment generally seems to have stimulated economic growth.

Very few sociologists support the position that,since 1500,the wealthy countries of the world treated the world's poor with brutality to enrich themselves.

According to the textbook,approximately how many people globally are connected today through the Internet?

Describe what trade regionalization is.