Chapter 15 Practice Quiz

Social Change and the Future
. What is political globalization?

. How long has the moratorium in cod fishing in Newfoundland and Labrador been in place?

. Which term is used to describe a person who opposes technological advances?

. Assuming that the legalization of marijuana is evidence of the imminent decline of our society is an example of which type of fallacy?

. 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?

. Who along with Gandhi encouraged the people of India to boycott British cloth and make their own as had been their tradition?

. Who wrote "We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings"?

. Who argued that countries were run by the power elite?

. 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?

. What did Donald Trump attempt to arouse through the slogan 'make America great again"?

. The fastest growing religion in Canada is Judaism.

. The cycle of civilization is the belief that civilizations rise and fall in a predictable cycle.

. Taliban attacks on schools in Pakistan are an example of conservatism.

. In ancient Greece where the notion of democracy was born, women and slaves also had a stake in the democratic process.

. "Evolution" means adapting well to particular circumstances.

. Postmodernism reminds people that they have a voice in issues that affect them.

. Auguste Comte believed in the inevitability of progress.

. In 2019 a federal report announced that the biomass of cod's spawning stock was lower than the 2018 forecast.

. The Luddites knew that technology is not socially neutral.

. Fashion, as social change model, usually only applies to the world of clothing and jewellery.

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