Chapter 9 Quizzes

Globalization and Global Inequality
. Which of the following scholars authored the work The Division of Labor in Society?

. Which of the following refers to different opportunities that people in different societies have for securing a healthy, satisfying life?

. The global ________ refers to certain regions in Europe and North America, while the global ________ refers to certain regions in Asia, Africa and Oceania. Which of the following best completes this statement?

. Which of the following terms has replaced the term "third world"?

. Which of the following is a limitation of the term Global South?

. Which of the following refers to a measure of a country's prosperity based on the total income of all of its residents?

. Which of the following terms is synonymous with the local cost of living?

. Anthony Giddens argued that a defining feature of globalization is:

. Which of the following refers to formal education and knowledge assessed by literacy measures?

. Which of the following countries is in the top ten countries with the highest global domestic product?

. Which of the following terms best describes the process of increased interrelation among regions of the globe, through economic, ideological, cultural, or technological means?

. What central role do states play in technological innovation?

. Who introduced the term "glocalization"?

. The Human Development Index measures what?

. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated:

. International migration has produced:

. The antiglobalization movement:

. Which of the following theories argues that developing states have failed to achieve adequate levels of development due to their neo-colonial dependence on the capitalist world?

. A criticism of antiglobalization movements is:

. Which of the following refers to a city with significant influence or impact in global affairs deriving from acting as a central locale for economic markets?

. Which of the following refers to lower income states that are less able to exert political influence internationally?

. A major criticism advanced by the antiglobalization movement is:

. How has COVID-19 affected asylum seekers on the US border?

. Which of the following refers to the ceremonies, symbolic objects, monuments, and writing systems that hasten the spread of an ideology and power relations in the larger population?

. What challenges dependency theory's assumption of the difficulty of economic development?

. A critique of the IMF is that it continues, rather than reduces, international economic dependency.

. According to research, every five years about 25 per cent of the world's population moves to another country.

. Conflict theorists argue that global inequality results from imperialist economic domination by powerful states.

. Structural functionalists argue that global inequality results from uneven economic development; some societies are better able to seize economic opportunities.

. Contemporary global feminist strategy focuses entirely on within-state solutions, as the state has the most power.

. The feminist solidarity model argues that global forces are defined by geographic territory alone.

. Canada has universal healthcare and access is equal for all Canadians.

. Under neoliberalism, the goal of the state is to intervene in markets as much as possible in order to provide services to citizens.

. Some multinational corporations have resources worth the same or more than small- to medium-sized national economies.

. Neo-liberalism and neo-colonialism are synonymous terms.

. Colonialism often resulted in making nations in the Global North dependent on colonized states.

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