Deck 5: Sociology of an Interconnected World

Question 1

Which model of society assumes that all the information needed to study how societies function are contained within their borders?

A) The anti-global model of society
B) The national model of society
C) The container model of society
D) The bordered model of society

Answer 1

C

Question 2

When was the term globalization coined?

A) 1990s
B) 1980s
C) 1920s
D) 1900s

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which theorist used the examples of Germany and Puerto Rico to argue against the assumption that each society corresponds to a nation-state?

A) Karl Marx
B) Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea
C) Immanuel Wallerstein
D) Claudia von Werlhof

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Research has shown that the gap in average incomes between rich and poor countries have:

A) Increased
B) Stayed the same
C) Fallen by 25%
D) Halved

Question 5

Research conducted by Korzeniewicz and Albrecht found that from 1982 to 2009 the average hourly wage in New York was:

A) 25% more than in Mumbai
B) 50% more than in Mumbai
C) 500% more than in Mumbai
D) 1000% more than in Mumbai

Question 6

What is the one of the most effective strategies for upward mobility for those born within low-income countries?

A) Education
B) Marrying into a higher social class
C) International migration
D) Entrepreneurship

Question 7

What term describes how being born in a very rich country equates to being better-off than someone born in a very poor country at any point of the income distribution?

A) Wage inequality
B) Income inequality
C) Citizenship premium
D) Global premium

Question 8

By being born in the United States rather than in Congo, a person would multiply their income by how many times?

A) 22
B) 56
C) 93
D) 104

Question 9

What term describes an external condition imposed on colonized countries by colonial powers which maintains the flow of economic surplus from the formed to the latter after independence?

A) Dependency
B) Reliance
C) Economic subjugation
D) Global income suppression

Question 10

What term describes a worldwide tendency towards the opening of state boarders to the free flow of goods and capital?

A) Free movement
B) Globalization
C) Capitalism
D) Neo-liberalism