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Questions
1. While recent protests and revolutions, such as the Arab Spring and Ukrainian revolutions, were fueled by grievances that ignited traditional social movements, these modern movements were facilitated by
the rise of the Internet and popular use of various social media websites.
authoritarian regimes who were tired of being in power.
large amounts of foreign-based investment in the countries.
special interest groups.
2. Human adaptation to cold climates, global warming, and access to clean water are examples of which major factor influencing social change?
political organization
physical environment
culture
economic factors
3. People from societies that keep written records are able to develop a better sense of their societies' evolution and how these processes are connected to social change. According to your textbook, this illustrates how social change is influenced by
the physical environment.
political organization.
economic factors.
cultural factors.
4. What factors contributed to Mahatma Gandhi's success in campaigning to free India from British rule?
Colonial schools educated the population to a sufficient degree such that they were willing to demand change.
Events such as World War II had unsettled colonial institutions in India.
The British government began to enact harsher laws, resulting in a backlash.
Neighboring countries were in a position to support the Indian social movement for independent rule.
5. In a knowledge-based economy, many industrial workers have been left unemployed and without the skills required to find good jobs. According to the textbook, this is due to
new social problems, such as long-term unemployment.
global trade and new forms of technology.
long-standing employment patterns.
new types of education, which are training workers for the knowledge economy.
6. The growth of jobs in the retail and food service sector and the decline in manufacturing jobs is referred to as
low-wage society.
industrial society.
information society.
postindustrial society.
7. The most far-reaching economic influence on social change has been
global capitalism.
the invention of the wheel.
the invention of money.
the technology of the agrarian revolution.
8. New social movements are at the heart of _____, which is the sphere between the state and the marketplace occupied by family, community associations, and other noneconomic institutions.
social mobilization
structural strain
institutional control
civil society
9. The rapid development and diffusion of _____ technologies, which have changed the so-called compression of time and space, have made the biggest contribution to accelerating and deepening the process of globalization.
accounting
transportation
manufacturing
Communication
10. Consider a community that has elected a leader who has promised the revitalization of a declining employment sector. At first, there are some improvements in living conditions, and the citizens have been inspired and expect improvements in their lives. However, if those improvements slow down, the community may become frustrated and begin to revolt against this new leader. This dynamic is referred to as
political deprivation.
absolute deprivation.
economic deprivation.
relative deprivation.
11. According to the textbook, the government of which country attempted to control the flow of Internet-based information to citizens by creating the "Great Firewall"?
Egypt
China
Syria
Korea
12. According to the textbook, which among the following the most significant political causes of globalization was
the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the end of isolation for the former second world.
the rise of Islamic fundamentalism as a response to Western political influence in the Arab world.
the development of a socialist alternative to the capitalist world market.
the influx of Syrian immigrants into Europe.
13. Which perspective in the globalization debate argues that regionalization within the world economy produces less integration and that national governments continue to play a vital role in the economy?
the hyperglobalizers
the skeptics
the transformationalists
the critics
14. Which of the following is the best example of a transnational corporation?
a software company in Silicon Valley that employs about two hundred people from around the United States, using telecommuting technology
Gooden, Brogan, Cangas, and Romero, a law firm with two thousand employees in three countries
College Cleaners, a janitorial service that cleans university buildings
a clothing company in India that exports much of its product internationally
15. According to globalization skeptics, compared with patterns of trade a century ago, today
the world economy is less global and more regionalized.
the world economy is more global and less regionalized.
there is less trade because there are too many types of currency.
the world economy has not changed much.
16. The declining influence of social class, gender, ethnicity, and other social categories best describes which process?
hyperglobalization
individualism
time-space compression
Transnationalism
17. According to the textbook, in terms of people's working lives, globalization makes it more likely that an individual will experience
a labor market that values skills in manual labor.
a self-made career path, with several employment changes over his or her lifetime.
working for one company over the course of his or her life.
a career in the manufacturing industry.
18. Globalization and information technology have made it more likely that people will work from home, share jobs with other employees, work on short-term consulting projects, and work in a system of flextime. These patterns are examples of how globalization has
increased pay inequality between racial-ethnic groups.
increased gender equity of pay by making it easier to combine paid work and family work.
made full-time work more likely for those without a college degree.
dissolved standard patterns of full-time work.
19. Which of the following would be considered a manufactured risk?
the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear disaster in Pennsylvania
Florida being pummeled with four hurricanes in 2004
the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina
the toxic gases released by the eruption of Washington State's Mount St. Helens in 1980 and 2004
20. In the past, humans experienced famine and floods, or _____; today, because of globalization, humans now face _____ created by the effects of our own knowledge and technology on the natural world.
natural risk; manufactured risk
manufactured risk; external risk
external risk; manufactured risk
hyper-risk; manufactured risk