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Gini index is a statistical measure of the: |
| | A) | collective progressivity. |
| | B) | global income inequality. |
| | C) | standard of living in a country. |
| | D) | income inequality across a geographic area. |
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Replacement fertility rate is the: |
| | A) | average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime. |
| | B) | number of childbirths per one thousand people per year. |
| | C) | number of children a woman must have on average to ensure that one daughter survives to reproductive age. |
| | D) | fertility rate that is not high enough to replace an area's population. |
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The nation-state is a(n): |
| | A) | independent entity whose territory consists of a city which is not administered as part of another local government. |
| | B) | international actor having a ruling authority, citizens, and a territory with fixed borders. |
| | C) | sovereign state which is viewed as comprising of two or more nations. |
| | D) | sovereign state having a very small population or very small land area, but usually both. |
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An ideology is a: |
| | A) | set of reinforcing beliefs and values that constructs a worldview. |
| | B) | process by which groups of people make collective decisions. |
| | C) | cultural system that creates powerful and long-lasting meaning. |
| | D) | process of cultivation or improvement. |
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Social Darwinism is a(n): |
| | A) | idea that evolutionary competition in human society, as well as the natural world, weeded out the unfit and advanced humanity. |
| | B) | belief that sacred authority called for hard work, saving, thrift, and honesty as necessary for salvation. |
| | C) | set of movements and concepts related to ideas of transmutation of species or evolution. |
| | D) | union of ideas from several social specialties which provides a widely accepted account of evolution. |
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What is a wiki? |
| | A) | It is a keyword associated with a piece of information. |
| | B) | It is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations. |
| | C) | It is a type of a Web site that is usually maintained by an individual. |
| | D) | It is a website that is open to collaborative editing by multiple individuals. |
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Postmaterialist values are: |
| | A) | broad preferences concerning appropriate courses of action or outcomes. |
| | B) | part of a core value dimension in the modernization process. |
| | C) | values based on assumptions of security and affluence. |
| | D) | used to describe the economic and cultural state or condition of society. |
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Democracy is a form of government: |
| | A) | which requires popular sovereignty, political liberty, and majority rule. |
| | B) | in which a few of the most famous citizens rule. |
| | C) | characterized by single-party rule or dominant-party rule. |
| | D) | that serves the interest of, and may be run by, corporations and involves ties between government and business. |
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What are soft laws? |
| | A) | Actual binding legal instruments and laws. |
| | B) | Voluntarily adopted guidelines for corporate behavior derived from emerging norms and standards in international codes, declarations, and conventions. |
| | C) | A series of ongoing debates regarding if and how norms of individual and collective behavior, decision-making, and actions should be created and enforced. |
| | D) | Legal structures in which providers of legal systems compete or overlap in a given jurisdiction. |
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Ecological Footprint measures the: |
| | A) | possible positive or negative impact that a proposed project may have on the environment, together consisting of the natural, social, and economic aspects. |
| | B) | direct and indirect use of water by a consumer or producer. |
| | C) | total set of greenhouse gas emissions caused by an organization, event, product, or person. |
| | D) | human consumption of the renewable natural resources. |
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