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Chapter 15 Practice Quiz
Social Change and the Future
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What is political globalization?
The development of political ideologies that are meaningful to all cultures
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The intensification and expansion of political interrelations across the globe
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The intensification of political conflict
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The division of the world's individual political identities
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The creation of a unified global political system
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How long has the moratorium in cod fishing in Newfoundland and Labrador been in place?
Since 1997
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Since 1982
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Since 2012
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Since 2002
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Since 1992
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Which term is used to describe a person who opposes technological advances?
Postmodernist
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Modernist
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Protectionist
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Universal protectionist
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Luddite
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Assuming that the legalization of marijuana is evidence of the imminent decline of our society is an example of which type of fallacy?
Downward spiral
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Slippery-slope
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Bottomless pit
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Depths of despair
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Nonsense
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Which term describes a philosophy and set of policies designed to free big business through tax cuts, deregulating the economy, eliminating tariffs and other barriers to free trade and weakening labour unions?
Modernism
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Postmodernism
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Neoliberalism
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Preliberalism
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Premodernism
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Who along with Gandhi encouraged the people of India to boycott British cloth and make their own as had been their tradition?
Mohammad Ali
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Mohammad Ali Jinnah
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Omran Khan
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Pathan Badshah Khan
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Zolfaghar Bhutto
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Who wrote "We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings"?
John Ruskin
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Jeremy Betham
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Adam Smith
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Thomas Carlyle
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Karl Marx
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Who argued that countries were run by the power elite?
Noam Chomsky
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Robert Dahl
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C. Wright Mills
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Karl Marx
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Kirkpatrick Sale
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What term does Arthur Kroker use to refer to a class of people who control and are dependent for the jobs and economic well-being on digital technologies and the Internet?
Virtual class
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Digital class
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Computer class
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Technology class
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Internet class
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What did Donald Trump attempt to arouse through the slogan 'make America great again"?
nostalgia for an idealized past
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regaining global leadership
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strengthening the economy
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curb immigration
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promoting Puritan values
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The fastest growing religion in Canada is Judaism.
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False
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The cycle of civilization is the belief that civilizations rise and fall in a predictable cycle.
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Taliban attacks on schools in Pakistan are an example of conservatism.
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In ancient Greece where the notion of democracy was born, women and slaves also had a stake in the democratic process.
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"Evolution" means adapting well to particular circumstances.
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Postmodernism reminds people that they have a voice in issues that affect them.
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Auguste Comte believed in the inevitability of progress.
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In 2019 a federal report announced that the biomass of cod's spawning stock was lower than the 2018 forecast.
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The Luddites knew that technology is not socially neutral.
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Fashion, as social change model, usually only applies to the world of clothing and jewellery.
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