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The term best used to describe a single world system committed to production for sale or exchange, with the object of maximizing profits rather than supplying domestic needs, is |
| | A) | modern world system. |
| | B) | capitalist world economy. |
| | C) | core world economy. |
| | D) | world stratification system. |
| | E) | balanced reciprocity. |
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The term best used to describe a world in which there is a substantial contrast between both capitalists and workers in the core nations and workers on the periphery is |
| | A) | modern world system. |
| | B) | capitalist world economy. |
| | C) | core world economy. |
| | D) | world stratification system. |
| | E) | negative system of reciprocity. |
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Which of the following statements concerning periphery nations is true? |
| | A) | Periphery nations play a prominent role in controlling world finance. |
| | B) | Industrialization has not yet occurred in any peripheral nations. |
| | C) | The periphery produces raw materials and agricultural commodities for export to the core and the semiperiphery. |
| | D) | Economic activities in the periphery are more mechanized than are those in the semiperiphery. |
| | E) | Wages and living standards in the periphery are comparable to those in core nations. |
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Which of the following best describes the current position of Brazil in the world system? |
| | A) | core |
| | B) | semiperiphery |
| | C) | periphery |
| | D) | Brazil is in the process of becoming a periphery nation. |
| | E) | Brazil is not part of the world system. |
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The Industrial Revolution started in England, rather than in France, for all of the following reasons except |
| | A) | England had a smaller population than France did. |
| | B) | France had better access to trade. |
| | C) | England was rich in coal and iron ore. |
| | D) | Settlers in the English colonies bought large quantities of staples from their mother country. |
| | E) | Many members of the emerging English middle class were Protestant nonconformists. |
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Weber's three dimensions of social stratification are |
| | A) | wealth, capital, and prestige. |
| | B) | wealth, power, and prestige. |
| | C) | capital, power, and prestige. |
| | D) | access, capital, and power. |
| | E) | access, wealth, and power. |
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Marx referred to the class of people who owned the means of production as the |
| | A) | bourgeoisie. |
| | B) | periphery. |
| | C) | proletariat. |
| | D) | caste. |
| | E) | semiperiphery. |
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Which of the following statements concerning the middle class is not true? |
| | A) | A middle class is found particularly in core and semiperiphery nations. |
| | B) | The middle class consists primarily of skilled and professional workers. |
| | C) | The proliferation of middle-class occupations creates opportunities for social mobility. |
| | D) | Modern stratification systems are becoming simpler and more dichotomous because of the rise of the middle class. |
| | E) | The growth of the middle class reduces the polarization between owning and working classes. |
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The political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended period of time is called |
| | A) | colonialism. |
| | B) | genocide. |
| | C) | a domestic system. |
| | D) | imperialism. |
| | E) | manifest destiny. |
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A policy of extending the rule of a nation or empire over foreign nations and of taking and holding foreign colonies is called |
| | A) | colonialism. |
| | B) | genocide. |
| | C) | a domestic system. |
| | D) | imperialism. |
| | E) | none of the above |
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Which of the following is not mentioned in the textbook as an example of an empire? |
| | A) | French empire |
| | B) | British empire |
| | C) | Yanomami empire |
| | D) | Egyptian empire |
| | E) | Greek empire |
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What were the two forms of colonial rule used by the French? |
| | A) | peripheral and tangential rule |
| | B) | autonomous and semiautonomous rule |
| | C) | autochthonous and indigenous rule |
| | D) | direct and indirect rule |
| | E) | sequential and simultaneous rule |
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What is an intervention philosophy? |
| | A) | an ideological justification not to intervene in foreign affairs |
| | B) | an ideological justification to intervene in the personal lives of collateral relatives in trouble |
| | C) | an ideological justification to intervene in the subsistence strategies of a person's extended family |
| | D) | an ideological justification for outsiders to ignore native groups |
| | E) | an ideological justification for outsiders to guide native groups in specific directions |
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What was the British empire's intervention philosophy? |
| | A) | "manifest destiny" |
| | B) | "the white man's burden" |
| | C) | "fifty-four forty or fight" |
| | D) | "civilizing mission" |
| | E) | "forty acres and a mule" |
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The currently dominant intervention philosophy, based on the idea that governments should not regulate private enterprise and that free market forces should rule, is called |
| | A) | neoconservativism. |
| | B) | neocommunism. |
| | C) | neocapitalism. |
| | D) | neoliberalism. |
| | E) | neosocialism. |
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