Question 1

Data-storage devices that can store 100 times the amount of information of devices currently on the market are examples of:

Accepted Answer

A)  postmodern society 
B)  nanotechnology 
C)  microtechnology 
D)  information society 
E)  supertechnology

Question 2

The gap in economic growth between the poorest and the richest countries could be best described as:

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A)  resulting from technological changes that have allowed the poorest countries to catch up to their wealthier neighbors 
B)  having widened from about 10 to 1 a hundred years ago to more than 173 to 1 today 
C)  having narrowed from about 90 to 1 a hundred years ago to less than 75 to 1 today 
D)  having narrowed the increase in international trade 
E)  having become of minimal consequence.

Question 3

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf Coast.The government's response to it created a social problem; however,according to sociologists,the hurricane itself was a(n):

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A)  manufactured risk 
B)  external risk 
C)  natural risk 
D)  environmental disaster 
E)  social issue

Question 4

Human beings will always adapt their societies to make the most productive use of their immediate physical environment.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

The relationship between globalization and inequality is that globalization:

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A)  appears to reduce inequality by expanding opportunities in the developing world 
B)  appears to increase inequality as people in developing nations benefit from new jobs 
C)  is not related to inequality because national political structures maintain consistent standards of living for their citizens 
D)  increases inequality as the expansion of global trade concentrates wealth within a small core of countries 
E)  reduces inequality because it facilitates the establishment of international nongovernmental organizations

Question 6

Agricultural giant Monsanto is a leader in technology and the world's food supply.It is estimated that it has widespread influence on genetically modified crops because the amount of food sold in grocery stores that has some type of genetically modified ingredient is:

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A)  about 40% 
B)  about 50% 
C)  about 70 to 75% 
D)  about 20% 
E)  100%

Question 7

As a result of globalization,humans now face risks created by the effects of their own knowledge and technology on the natural world,or:

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A)  external risk 
B)  manufactured risk 
C)  natural risk 
D)  hyper risk 
E)  the end of risk

Question 8

Developing nations are kept from participating fully in World Trade Organization policy development because:

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A)  they are not interested in creating policy 
B)  the World Trade Organization does not include developing nations 
C)  the agenda is established by wealthier developed nations. 
D)  World Trade Organization policy does not affect developing nations, so they are not needed in the policy development process 
E)  they are not capable of developing good policies and should rely on wealthier developed nations for guidance

Question 9

Globalization in the twenty-first century is:

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A)  simply a continuation of a process that began centuries ago 
B)  different from earlier global movements because nation-states are now more independent than ever before 
C)  primarily a cultural phenomenon 
D)  the first time in the world's history that countries have been interconnected 
E)  a condition of "one-world" interdependence

Question 10

The following who believe that globalization is challenging the power of nation-states are the:

Accepted Answer

A)  hyperglobalizers 
B)  transformationalists 
C)  skeptics 
D)  believers 
E)  transitionists

Question 11

The number of people were estimated to be using the Internet in 2009 was:

Accepted Answer

A) 3.3 billion, or about one-half of the global population 
B)  300 million, or about one-fifth the global population 
C)  300 million, or about the number of people in the United States 
D) 1.2 billion, or about one-half the global population 
E) 1.8 billion, or about one-fifth of the global population

Question 12

Carla and Agula are friends in the international banking industry.They both travel frequently but keep in contact even when one is in London and the other is in Australia through phone calls,e-mail,instant messaging,and even faxing.This technology has the capacity to:

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A)  overcome cultural differences 
B)  link economic and cultural gains 
C)  overcome the move toward the service economy 
D)  create interdependence 
E)  compress time and space

Question 13

Those who would argue that we have come to the end of history are the:

Accepted Answer

A)  postmodernists 
B)  postindustrialists 
C)  skeptics 
D)  religious extremists 
E)  transformationalists

Question 14

What comes after modern industrial society? The text discusses two different perspectives: postindustrial society and postmodern society.Compare and contrast these two perspectives.Which do you find most compelling and why?

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Question 15

How did the political changes following the collapse of the soviet system affect the process of globalization? Does increasing access to information about people and events around the world affect this process? How was the growth of transnational corporations connected?

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Question 16

According to the text,the next step in the technology race is:

Accepted Answer

A)  space 
B)  time 
C)  compression of space and time 
D)  nanotechnology 
E)  microtechnology

Question 17

Outline the three perspectives in the globalization debate.Which position do you find most compelling? Why?

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Question 18

According to the text,a "new individualism" is affecting people in their everyday lives in which:

Accepted Answer

A)  tradition and custom are reintensified 
B)  established values are held to be sacred and inviolable 
C)  they must actively construct their own identities in an open and reflexive way 
D)  risks are becoming more prevalent 
E)  they have more technology to publicize their identities

Question 19

The observation that the number of service workers has been increasing since the industrial revolution is an argument against:

Accepted Answer

A)  globalization 
B)  the postindustrial society argument 
C)  technological determinism 
D)  the modernization thesis 
E)  the industrialized society thesis

Question 20

Postmodernists argue that we have reached the end of history because:

Accepted Answer

A)  human consumption will outstrip the world's resources within the next generation 
B)  technology will make recording history more difficult 
C)  progress is no longer unified and linear 
D)  we have entered a new era 
E)  the end of the Cold War has stalled progress and development

Exam 20: Globalization In A Changing World