Chapter 12 Practice Quiz

Globalization and Global Inequality
. Which term refers to the process of increasing interconnectedness of people, products, ideas, and places?

. Which one of the following is NOT a sociological theory used to explain globalization?

. What are cash crops?

. Which of the following is an economically efficient and profitable method of repeatedly growing one high-yield crop?

. What does modernization theory argue?

. Brazil, China, and India are examples of what type of countries, according to world systems theory?

. What is the second period in W.W. Rostow's stage of economic growth?

. Which term refers to the process through which resources are gathered, transformed into commodities, and distributed to consumers?

. Which theory argues that societies are becoming increasingly similar and following Enlightenment ideals of progress, science, and human rights?

. Which strategy for relieving global inequality involves financial aid given by governments and some non-governmental charitable agencies to support a country's economic, social, and political development?

. Mobilization is a process of increasing interconnectedness of people, products, ideas, and places.

. One positive example of the spread of ideas via globalization is the spread of the concept of human rights.

. Sharing ideas and cultural models through globalization is always positive.

. Modernization theory encourages all countries to strive to modernize in the same way as Western Europe and North America did.

. Monocropping could increase short-term food production and lead to prosperity, and comes with no disadvantages.

. Immanuel Wallerstein developed world systems theory as a critical response to Marxian theory.

. Canada is a core country, according to world systems theory.

. According to world systems theory, the unequal trade relations between the core and periphery countries create many problems for the periphery.

. World society theory argues that countries are becoming increasingly different.

. The higher the Gini index, the more equal the country.

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