Exam 7: Global Stratification

When slavery ended in the United States,it was replaced by a racial caste system.

John Kenneth Galbraith's theory of global stratification,referred to as a culture of poverty,is based on a concept first proposed by ________.

Why do the ruling elite in the Least Industrialized Nations work so closely with the heads of multinational corporations to develop informal partnerships?

What term would Karl Marx use for today's workers who mistakenly identify with the capitalists simply because they own a few shares of stock or work as managers of large corporations?

Great Britain was one of the first nations in which industrial capitalism developed. According to world system theory,Great Britain would be a ________ nation.

Does the caste system in India still exist?

Discuss how elites maintain stratification,and point out the benefits and liabilities of each method.

Why was the strategy used by the United States to dominate Central and South American countries considered more ethically acceptable than the colonial strategy used by European countries to dominate African and Middle Eastern countries?

The Industrialized Nations' control of the Least Industrialized Nations through debts owed to them,which is referred to as ________.

What are the three models of global stratification discussed by the author? Why did the author choose one particular model over the others?

In all places around the world where it is practiced,slavery is a permanent condition.

Which American sociologist described the years of American colonial slavery when he said that "gradually the entire white South became an armed camp to keep Negroes in slavery and to kill the black rebel"?

What prediction was made by Karl Marx regarding the behavior of workers in a capitalist society?

According to Gerhard Lenski,what was the key to the development of stratification and class differences?

Who or what are the maquiladoras?

According to Melvin Tumin,which of the following high school seniors will MOST likely attend college?

In world system theory,nations that have been totally left out of the development of capitalism and allowed to stagnate are called ________.

Which of the following characteristics is MOST associated with the class system?

The author makes an issue over the categorized names given to groups of countries,based on the degree to which they are "industrialized," as opposed to "developed." In what ways might industrialization be desirable,and in what ways might it be undesirable?

The impetus for colonialism was the advent of the Industrial Revolution.