Deck 19: A: Globalization

Question 1

The semi-periphery refers to peripheral countries moving toward becoming core,or core countries in decline.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

There is no debate that globalization has resulted in greater global equality.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Hegemony refers to the political and social domination of the bourgeois class in capitalist society,expressed not only in ideologies but also in the realms of culture and social organization.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The terminology associated with "development" has come under criticism.

Question 5

Critics doubt there is any evidence to show that the billions of dollars spent in foreign aid actually leads to a decline in poverty levels.

Question 6

The total market value of all final goods and services produced in a country refers to its gross domestic product.

Question 7

Of all of the major theories of global inequality,world system theory comes closest to believing in what is called "trickle-down" economics.

Question 8

Dependency theory proposes that the capitalist economic system is in dire need of being dismantled.

Question 9

Globalization is responsible for,among other things,severing social arrangements based on geographic location.

Question 10

True economic integration among persons from different geographic locales became possible only with the emergence of capitalism.

Question 11

Giddens points out that globalization since the 1970s is much different from globalization in previous times.

Question 12

In opposition to the "homogenization" of cultures argument,some recent theorists propose that globalization may in fact lead to greater cultural diversity.

Question 13

The foundation for modernization theory is the belief that poor countries should naturally want to be like industrialized nations since they are doing so well.

Question 14

The definition of absolute poverty is a measure of social inequality.

Question 15

There is a causal link between globalization and poverty.