Question 1

What term refers to the ideological justification for outsiders to guide native groups in specific directions?

Accepted Answer

A)  development ideology 
B)  intervention philosophy 
C)  coercive philosophy 
D)  development philosophy 
E)  intrusive ideology

Question 2

Belgian colonial administrators were careful to use culturally significant differences to distinguish between the Hutus and Tutsis.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Sugar and cotton helped fuel the development of a capitalist world economy.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

What is the world system perspective, and why is it important in anthropology?

Accepted Answer

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Question 5

The Occupy movement, which began on Wall Street and spread to other U.S. and Canadian cities, recognizes the disparity between the rich and the poor. Which of the following statements about U.S. wealth as of the year 2009 is NOT correct?

Accepted Answer

A)  The top 1% of American households hold over one-third the nation's wealth. 
B)  The net worth of the top 1% is 225 times greater than the typical household's net worth. 
C)  The net worth of the top 1% compared to the typical household is the highest ratio on record. 
D)  The bottom 90% of income-earning households control half of all net worth. 
E)  The top 1% owns more than the bottom 90% combined.

Question 6

What is the world capitalist economy? When did it originate, and what are its features? What are core, semiperiphery, and periphery? What is their relationship to world capitalism?

Accepted Answer

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Question 7

According to Marx, who are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?

Accepted Answer

A)  the products of gender differentiation from Europe's tribal past 
B)  groups destined to reconcile through the postcapitalist process of alienation 
C)  distinct and opposed classes produced by the world capitalist economy 
D)  exogamous social groups 
E)  moiety groups that dominated Western capitalism

Question 8

The current world stratification system features a substantial contrast between capitalists and workers in the core nations, and workers on the periphery.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Neoliberalism is a new form of the old economic liberalism laid out in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776). To Smith, economic liberalism encouraged free enterprise and competition, with the goal of generating profits. However, this meaning of liberal

Accepted Answer

A)  is a Protestant ideology. 
B)  varies depending on whether it refers to politics in a Western or non-Western context. 
C)  has no implications for the relationship between economics and the state. 
D)  is a more accurate use of the term than the one Americans typically hear in current talk radio. 
E)  is different from the one typically used in current U.S. politics, in which liberal is the opposite of conservative.

Question 10

Many of the political, linguistic, religious, and economic distinctions among the countries of West Africa today are artifacts of colonialism.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

With the spread of industrialization, the existence of indigenous economies, ecologies, and populations has become threatened all over the world.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

The Industrial Revolution did not begin in France, because the French domestic manufacturing system could produce satisfactorily without innovating.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Mass production has led to critical consumption as people are forced to make careful decisions regarding what is needed and what is excess.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

According to Marx, the bourgeoisie is made up of the people who must sell their labor to survive.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

One effect of the spread of industrialization has been

Accepted Answer

A)  a decrease in global power. 
B)  the destruction of indigenous economies, ecologies, and populations. 
C)  the incorporation of indigenous communities into industrial projects. 
D)  an increased awareness among industrialists and states of the need for environmental protection. 
E)  an increase in the equitable distribution of wealth.

Question 16

Which of the following statements about Karl Marx is NOT true?

Accepted Answer

A)  He analyzed 19th-century industrial production capitalism. 
B)  He viewed socioeconomic stratification in terms of several classes with different but complementary interests. 
C)  He called the owners of the means of production the bourgeoisie. 
D)  He called the people who sold their own labor the proletariat. 
E)  He emphasized class consciousness.

Question 17

What was the Industrial Revolution, and how did it differ from previous life in villages, towns, and cities? Why is this topic relevant to an anthropologist?

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Question 18

Hundreds of ethnic groups and so-called tribes are colonial constructs. What does this mean-does it suggest that they are only imaginary and therefore of no consequence? Provide illustrations with your answers.

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Question 19

When indigenous peoples are incorporated into modern nation-states, they usually become part of the impoverished classes.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Who are the groups known as indigenous peoples? What is their situation in the world system today?

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Exam 14: The World System and Colonialism

What term refers to the ideological justification for outsiders to guide native groups in specific directions?

Belgian colonial administrators were careful to use culturally significant differences to distinguish between the Hutus and Tutsis.

Sugar and cotton helped fuel the development of a capitalist world economy.

What is the world system perspective, and why is it important in anthropology?

The Occupy movement, which began on Wall Street and spread to other U.S. and Canadian cities, recognizes the disparity between the rich and the poor. Which of the following statements about U.S. wealth as of the year 2009 is NOT correct?

What is the world capitalist economy? When did it originate, and what are its features? What are core, semiperiphery, and periphery? What is their relationship to world capitalism?

According to Marx, who are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?

The current world stratification system features a substantial contrast between capitalists and workers in the core nations, and workers on the periphery.

Neoliberalism is a new form of the old economic liberalism laid out in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776) . To Smith, economic liberalism encouraged free enterprise and competition, with the goal of generating profits. However, this meaning of liberal

Many of the political, linguistic, religious, and economic distinctions among the countries of West Africa today are artifacts of colonialism.

With the spread of industrialization, the existence of indigenous economies, ecologies, and populations has become threatened all over the world.

The Industrial Revolution did not begin in France, because the French domestic manufacturing system could produce satisfactorily without innovating.

Mass production has led to critical consumption as people are forced to make careful decisions regarding what is needed and what is excess.

According to Marx, the bourgeoisie is made up of the people who must sell their labor to survive.

One effect of the spread of industrialization has been

Which of the following statements about Karl Marx is NOT true?

What was the Industrial Revolution, and how did it differ from previous life in villages, towns, and cities? Why is this topic relevant to an anthropologist?

Hundreds of ethnic groups and so-called tribes are colonial constructs. What does this mean-does it suggest that they are only imaginary and therefore of no consequence? Provide illustrations with your answers.

When indigenous peoples are incorporated into modern nation-states, they usually become part of the impoverished classes.

Who are the groups known as indigenous peoples? What is their situation in the world system today?