Exam 13: Work and the Economy

Globalization in the less developed countries has created several problems for the citizens and governments of those countries.Some of these concerns include:

Which of the following is the dominant economic system in the world?

In a tribal society,a person considered adept at tending to the ill,forecasting the weather,or predicting the movement of animals might be relieved of other responsibilities to focus on these services.This process illustrates the development of:

In the United States,about ____ of nonagricultural workers are members of unions.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three social barriers that make it difficult to penetrate the primary labor market.

Farming,fishing,logging,mining and the extraction of other raw materials and resources are all activities associated with which sector of the economy?

What is the difference between the sociological and neoclassical schools of economics on how markets operate?

As an ideal,communism is an economic system with the distinct feature of:

Governments do not play a large or influential role in establishing and promoting many leading industries,

Workers in the secondary labor market are routinely overworked and lack leisure,while workers in the primary labor market have abundant free time.

The question of whether free or regulated markets are better for society lies at the center of much debate in economics and politics.However,for many economic sociologists that question is too abstract because:

Most economic analysts divide the economy into three main sectors of economic activity.Which of the following is one of these sectors?

The distribution of income in services is practically the same as that in manufacturing.On some measures of job quality,such as job security,service jobs are on average better than manufacturing jobs.Thus,the decline of the manufacturing sector and the rise of the service sector:

The workplace organization in which small groups of workers and managers collaborate to improve both the quality of goods produced and communication between workers and managers is called:

If someone is a nurse,teacher,lawyer,or computer programmer than they are working in which sector of the economy?

The secondary labor market is a ____ because supply and demand labor regulates wage levels and other benefits:

Sociologist Shoshana Zuboff had office workers draw pictures representing how they felt about their jobs before and after a new computer system was introduced.In these pictures the workers drew pictures of how unhappy they were because of the new computer system.

One of the factors that sets prices is how plentiful goods and services are to consumers.This is known as:

Corporate ownership holds certain advantages over individual ownership.One advantage is that:

An increasingly large number of people depend on part-time work for the necessities of full-time living.Yet most part-time jobs are: