Question 1

Which of the following is an example of automation?

Accepted Answer

A) the manufacturing of identical commodities on a mechanical assembly line 
B) the movement of manufacturing jobs overseas 
C) contracting U.S.workers to do a job for less pay than a company employee would earn 
D) robots performing tedious and dangerous work

Question 2

What led Karl Marx and Friedrich to posit that the two classes--the bourgeoisie and the proletariat--to come into conflict?

Accepted Answer

A) the modern division of labor 
B) the poor conditions of 19th-century English factories 
C) the efficiency of mass production 
D) the publication of Winslow Taylor's Principles of Scientific Management

Question 3

Marx and Engels believed that the exploitation of wage labor by capitalists would ______.

Accepted Answer

A) cause profits to plummet 
B) increase job security for the proletariat 
C) improve conditions and opportunities for the proletariat 
D) end in revolution and the end of private ownership of the means of production

Question 4

Currently, most societies are socialist societies.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Which of the following is an example of a public-sector job?

Accepted Answer

A) engineer at Snapchat 
B) flight attendant at American Airlines 
C) attorney at the State Department 
D) janitor at Walmart

Question 6

Nike, Apple, and Ford are all brands with globalized labor force.They reflect which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A) deep integration 
B) shallow integration 
C) an isolated economic society 
D) cottage industries

Question 7

Which of the following is true of the early 21st century?

Accepted Answer

A) Consumption was the direct cause of bankruptcies. 
B) Financial reforms in 2015 made the declaration of bankruptcy much easier and more common. 
C) The financial crisis in 2017 saw another rise of bankruptcies. 
D) Car debt increasingly became a burden.

Question 8

Which of the following is characteristic of socialism?

Accepted Answer

A) minimizing the government's role in economic decision-making 
B) efforts to keep wages low 
C) unregulated markets 
D) elimination of extreme poverty

Question 9

Which of the following is true of communism?

Accepted Answer

A) It eliminates economic inequality in its ideal-typical form. 
B) It is a transitional form of economic organization between capitalism and socialism. 
C) Its primary motive is profit. 
D) It emphasizes private ownership of the means of production.

Question 10

Which of following is true of mass production?

Accepted Answer

A) Mass production reduces efficiency but improves safety conditions. 
B) Each individual worker is responsible for putting entire products together from start to finish. 
C) Mass production results in the development of large numbers of identical components and products. 
D) Mass production increases cost.

Question 11

Which of the following is true of the underground or informal economy?

Accepted Answer

A) Few of us ever participate in it. 
B) All income-generating activities in the informal economy are illegal. 
C) It's larger in advanced countries than in developing economies. 
D) Disproportionate numbers of low-income, female, and immigrant people work in it.

Question 12

Juliet Schor argued that consumption patterns in the United States are heavily driven on American's reliance on ______.

Accepted Answer

A) the government 
B) market patriotism 
C) reference groups 
D) social media

Question 13

Discuss the relationship between technology and work.How have advancements in technology changed the nature of work and class systems over time?

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Question 14

Which of the following best represents a sociological understanding of economic systems?

Accepted Answer

A) Nearly all countries display a mix of economic systems, not purely capitalist, socialist, or communist. 
B) The majority of societies have a communist economic system. 
C) The United States and other similarly developed countries have a purely capitalist economic system. 
D) Socialism relies more heavily on a service economy.

Question 15

Shallow integration is more characteristic of which of the following time periods?

Accepted Answer

A) the agricultural revolution 
B) the industrial revolution 
C) the globalization of several decades ago 
D) the globalization of today

Question 16

Provide three examples of enchanted or reenchanted goods or services.

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Question 17

Which of the following is considered a service sector position?

Accepted Answer

A) computer scientist 
B) cell phone sales rep 
C) automobile factory worker 
D) farmer

Question 18

Which of the following is an example of market patriotism?

Accepted Answer

A) a manufacturing company profiting off a military contract 
B) citizen-consumers spending money to stimulate the economy after a disaster 
C) individuals saving money to invest in educational credentials 
D) a government asking its citizens to join the military during war

Question 19

Discuss how the capitalist class has used science, technology, and the government to control workers over time.

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Question 20

Which of the following developed alongside the rise of industrial capitalist society?

Accepted Answer

A) automation 
B) the production of agricultural surpluses 
C) cottage industries 
D) new economic classes

Exam 15: Work, Consumption, and the Economy