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Reform movements focus only on broad social reforms.
a.) True b.) False |
False
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As used by your textbook, ___________ refers to people who share certain economic positions, interests, and problems.
a.) Political group b.) SMO c.) Reformation ideology d.) Social class |
d.) Social class
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Which of the following class-based movements were NOT related to the interests and problems of farmers?
a.) Agrarian populism b.) The labor movement c.) The Progressive Movement d.) The populist democracy movement |
d.) The populist democracy movement
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In contrast to ____________, __________ is rooted in the varying degrees of social honor, power, and prestige that people have because of noneconomic social characteristics, such as race, gender, culture, or national origin.
a.) Social class; social status b.) Social status; social class c.) Social status; marginalization d.) Marginalization; hegemony |
a.) Social class; social status
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Which two movements were most directly stimulated by civil rights protest?
a.) Feminist Movement; American Indian Movement b.) American Indian Movement; Gay Rights c.) The New Left; Countercultural Student Movement d.) Gay Rights; The Conservative Movement |
c.) The New Left; Counter-cultural Student Movement
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Status based reforms dominated the pre-WWII era; after WWII the dominant reforms were class-based.
a.) True b.) False |
b.) False
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Which of the following is TRUE about the Civil Rights Movement?
a.) It provided the basic ideological master frame as well as protest strategies for future movements b.) It borrowed its basic ideological method and protest strategies from the women's right-to-vote movement c.) The first massive direct action in the civil rights movement occurred in Chicago d.) Black churches played a minor role in the civil rights movement e.) It began capturing the attention of white Americans in the mid-1940s. |
a.) It provided the basic ideological master frame as well as protest strategies for future movements
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Which organization articulated the New Left ideology that was a broad critique of American society, condemning capitalism, racism, undemocratic power structures, and American neoimperialism in the Third World?
a.) SDS b.) RKO c.) NOW d.) SMO |
a.) SDS
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The student movement had a role in convincing Lyndon Johnson - a sitting president - not to run for reelection.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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The feminist movement is an example of a status movement.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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Which best selling book became the ideological frame for the feminist movement?
a.) The Feminine Mystique b.) Little Women c.) The Scarlet Letter d.) The Beauty Myth |
a.) The Feminine Mystique
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According to your textbook, the most powerful explanation as to why the reform movements of the 1960's were sucessful has to do with political realignments that provided a greatly expanded political opportuniy structure for movement mobilization.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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Reform movements stalled in the 1970s and 1980s because of ______________ movement activists were investing less time and energy in activist activities
a.) Political realignments b.) An economic boom c.) middle class Americans were satisfied with their lives |
A.) Political realignments
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Which of the following is NOT one of the kinds of change reform movements can produce?
a.) Changing norms, public opinion, and public behavior b.) Creating new organizations c.) Political or economic structures d.) Creating new sectors of the economy |
d.) Creating new sectors of the economy
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The conservative movement was based on _________ and ____________.
a.) Class grievances; status grievances b.) Class grievances; religious ideology c.) Status grievances; religious ideology d.) Religious ideology; American exceptionalism |
a.) Class grievances; status grievances
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The conservative movement has reaffirmed and broadened cultural assumptions of the primacy of private over public interests and the primacy of freedom over equality.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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Which of the following is NOT true about the New Right?
a.) It was formed by a several activist conservative movement organizations b.) The New Right used new technologies, such as phone banking, computerized mailing lists, and direct mail, to gain popular support c.) They were not closely aligned with the Religious Right d.) New Right organizations emphasized themes that were both populist and conservative |
c.) They were not closely aligned with the Religious Right
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Conservatism was a countermovement to the status-equality movements of the 1920s.
a.) True b.) False |
b.) False
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According to your textbook, the main enduring legacy of the conservative movement agenda involves continued attacks on affirmative action programs.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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The Native American movement was ________ in the 1970s by a military standoff in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
a.) Amplified b.) Revived c.) Stalled d.) Destroyed |
c.) Stalled
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As defined in your textbook, a revolution refers to a broad transformation that changes many areas of social life that must include a sudden collapse or overthrow of the state.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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Which of the following is NOT an example of a successful and "real" revolution, as per your textbook?
a.) French Revolution in 1789 b.) Russian Revolution in 1917 c.) Chinese Revolution in 1949 d.) American Revolution in 1776 |
d.) American Revolution in 1776
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Which theoretical perspective focuses upon the changing relations between social institutions, asserting that when the rates of change within the various institutional subsystems of a society are too different, the resulting imbalances create conditions that foster riot, rebellions, and revolutions?
a.) Relative Deprivation Theories b.) System Disequilibrium Theories c.) Resource Mobilization Theories d.) Marxist Dialectical Theories |
b.) System Disequilibrium Theories
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Relative Deprivation Theories, System Disequilibrium Theories, and Resource Mobilization Theories continue to provide powerful explanations as to the set of social circumstances behind the sudden internal disintegration of states and social systems.
a.) True b.) False |
b.) False
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Which theoretical perspective draws upon the notion that "misery breeds revolt"?
a.) Relative Deprivation Theories b.) System Disequilibrium Theories c.) Resource Mobilization Theories d.) Marxist Dialectical Theories |
a.) Relative Deprivation Theories
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How many common elements, as listed in your textbook, have been identified in revolutions?
a.) three b.) five c.) seven d.) ten |
c.) seven
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According to the work of Theda Skocpol, how many coexisting pressures has she identified that lead to a successful social revolution?
a.) Two b.) Four c.) Six d.) Seven |
b.) Four
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According to Skocpol's work, whether or not the state is able to mobilize economically and militarily to meet foreign competition depends upon ___________ relations.
a.) Internal b.) External c.) Foreign allies d.) Democratic |
a.) Internal
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Most scholars do not distinguish between rural uprisings and urban uprisings. They are basically treated the same in the scholarly literature.
a.) True b.) False |
b.) False
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Which of the following two grievances are the dominant causes of urban revolts?
a.) the cost of food; the availability of employment b.) the cost of food; voting rights c.) the availability of employment; implementation of a military draft d.) the availability of employment; corrupt police and military |
a.) the cost of food; the availability of employment
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According to Skocpol's framework, civil servants, lawyers, bureaucrats, intellectuals, journalists, and military officers are all considered __________.
a.) Ruling elites b.) Elites c.) neopatrimonials d.) Marginal elites |
d.) Marginal elites
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According to your textbook, most scholars agree that that successful revolutions result in more centralized, bureaucratic, powerful, and often "modern" governments than existed under the old regime.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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Which of the following country is NOT discussed in your text as an example of contemporary revolutions?
a.) Sudan b.) Liberia and West Africa c.) Iran d.) Vietnam |
d.) Vietnam
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What was the name of the ruling family in Iran - and the family of the Shah - that was eventually overthrown in the Iranian Revolution of 1979?
a.) Masuri b.) Pahlavi c.) Khomenini d.) Ruhollah |
b.) Pahlavi
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The Sudanese civil war has been going on since ___________.
a.) 1956 b.) 1976 c.) 1993 d.) 2001 |
a.) 1956
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The Somoza regime in Nicaragua was backed by the United States as a bastion against Central American communism.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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From the 1920s to the 1950s, and in spite of the world Depression and World War II, Stalin and the communist party succeeded in creating a _________________ society.
a.) Departmental b.) Mono-organizational c.) neopatrimonial d.) Glasnost |
b.) Mono-organizational
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During the 1930s, the Soviet Union was overwhelmingly rural, but by ___________ it had become predominately urban.
a.) 1950 b.) 1969 c.) 1972 d.) 1991 |
c.) 1972
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What country was the first in the Soviet Union to free itself from the Communist Party?
a.) East Germany b.) Czechoslovakia c.) Yugoslavia d.) Poland |
d.) Poland
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Most of the elements of Skocpol's structural theory of revolution can be found in the collapse of communism.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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How innovations occur, which people adopt them, why they are adopted or not, and the complex mix of benefits or problems innovations create is simple to understand.
a.) True b.) False |
b.) False
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Which of the following terms refers to the idea that distance is increasingly less relevant for people doing things together - whether working, , buying and selling, and so forth?
a.) Socio-spatial b.) Deterritorialization c.) Spatial divisibility d.) Territorial integration |
b.) Deterritorialization
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__________ Involves "a linkage or fusion of two or more elements that have not been previously joined in just this fashion, so that the result is a qualitatively distinct whole"
a.) Marginalized innovation b.) Spatial integration c.) Deterritorialization d.) Innovation action |
d.) Innovation action
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Sociologists and others have identified _______ structural conditions in societies that make innovation more likely.
a.) Three b.) Five c.) Six d.) Seven |
c.) Six
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Research indicates necessity really is the mother of invention.
a.) True b.) False |
b.) False
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An innovation will not come into being until the _________ is sufficiently developed to permit its occurrence.
a.) Economic base b.) Political base c.) Cultural base d.) Scientific base |
c.) Cultural base
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The more a culture's worldview sees the cosmos as being in a state of change, flux, and/or development, the more innovation will be encouraged.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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According to your textbook, how many studies since the 1930s have examined the spread - or diffusion - of innovation?
a.) over 100 b.) over 500 c.) over 1,000 d.) over 1,500 |
d.) over 1,500
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Research has found that the S-shaped diffusion curve depends on the degree of ______ within a population.
a.) Social integration b.) Economic mobility c.) Political freedom d.) Literacy |
a.) Social integration
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Most research about the mass media suggests that they have large direct effects for producing change.
a.) True b.) False |
b.) False
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Information technologies may amplify and reproduce inequalities based on gender, education, and social class.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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Which term refers to the "two-step flow of communication", which means that communication originating within the mass media first goes to people terms opinion leaders before being transmitted to a segment of a population?
a.) Dual communication process b.) Two-step flow of influence c.) Bi-flow d.) Duality of communication flow |
b.) Two-step flow of influence
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The "adopting unites" of innovation can be either ________ or ________.
a.) The government; individuals b.) Individuals; institutions c.) Organizations; individuals d.) Social systems; individuals |
d.) Social systems; individuals
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_________ is the systematic change in the functioning of organizations brought about by attempts to respond to a changing world.
a.) Industrial change b.) Technological change c.) Societal change d.) Institutional change |
d.) Institutional change
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Which term refers to pressure exerted by the law and oversight agencies?
a.) Coercive pressure b.) Normative pressure c.) Mimetic pressure d.) Isomorphic pressure |
a.) Coercive pressure
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Which term refers to pressure that comes from simply observing what other, similarly situated organizations do?
a.) Coercive pressure b.) Normative pressure c.) Mimetic pressure d.) Isomorphic pressure |
c.) Mimetic pressure
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According to your textbook, a network conception of the social world offers few advantages.
a.) True b.) False |
b.) False
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Which type of models describes how change flows among region, cities, or nations?
a.) Temporal models b.) Dialectical models c.) Cyclical-dialectical models d.) Spatial center-periphery models |
d.) Spatial center-periphery models
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Rodney Stark used a center-periphery model of innovation to describe the rise of __________.
a.) Computers b.) Higher education c.) Christianity d.) Democracy |
c.) Christianity
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According to your textbook, experts today have excellent track records for concretely predicting the social implications of pervasive innovations.
a.) True b.) False |
b.) False
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There are specific formulas that one can use in creating change.
a.) True b.) False |
b.) False
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The literature on how ________ change and technologies are adopted is applicable to creating social change.
a.) Organizations b.) People c.) Social policies d.) Economies |
a.) Organizations
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What of the following was a provision in community development grants, and required by HUD), in the mid-1970s?
a.) Commercial shopping districts b.) New prison facilities c.) Scattered site housing for the poor d.) cultural districts |
c.) Scattered site housing for the poor
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What came to Omaha in the mid-seventies?
a.) School desegregation b.) Vietnam draft c.) The KKK d.) A new auto plant |
a.) School desegregation
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In analyzing what occurred in Omaha, hat did the school district appeal to?
a.) The federal government b.) The Supreme Court c.) The merits of integrated education d.) Higher-order consensual values |
d.) Higher-order consensual values
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In analyzing the change efforts in Omaha, what happened with the city?
a.) It appealed to universal values b.) It was sued by developers c.) it was drawn into a debate shaped by opponents of the plan d.) The National Guard had to come and help maintain law and order |
c.) it was drawn into a debate shaped by opponents of the plan
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The authors of your text write that any effort to instigate change can be conceptualized as having how many elements?
a.) Three b.) Four c.) Seven d.) Ten |
a.) Three
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Which strategy should be used when the target group or reference public recognizes a problem and the for change; is open to external assistance; and is willing to engage in self-help?
a.) Facilitative strategies b.) Re-educative strategies c.) Persuasive strategies d.) Power strategies |
a.) Facilitative strategies
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Which of the following strategies is effective, and necessary, when the reference public does not possess the knowledge or skills to utilize an innovation or when there are fears, anxieties, and moral barriers to adoption?
a.) Facilitative strategies b.) Re-educative strategies c.) Persuasive strategies d.) Power strategies |
b.) Re-educative strategies
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The authors of your text state that power is often identified with _________.
a.) Social change b.) Violence c.) Communism d.) Politicians |
b.) violence
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Violence is commonly associated with significant change.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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The authors cite Gamson's work on violence in relation to social change. How many "violence-prone" protest groups in American history did Gamson study?
a.) Three b.) Seventeen c.) Thirty-five d.) Fifty-three |
d.) Fifty-three
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Most efforts to create any particular type of change require ________.
a.) A single strategy b.) Complex and mixed strategies c.) Money and resources d.) Violence |
b.) Complex and mixed strategies
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How many ways of combining strategies do the authors discuss?
a.) One b.) Two c.) Three d.) Four |
d.) Four
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Who created the satyagraha strategy?
a.) Martin Luther King b.) Mohandas Ghandi c.) Textile workers in Malaysia d.) Al Quaida |
b.) Mohandas Ghandi
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The satyagraha strategy is a violent strategy.
a.) True b.) False |
b.) False
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The authors of your text state that the job of being a change agent should start with a ______ question and a ______ question.
a.) Structural; social-psychological b.) Personal; societal c.) Social psychological; financial d.) Financial; political |
a.) Structural; social-psychological
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In planning for social change, which of the following terms refers to identifying situations or times when the target population is most receptive to change?
a.) Conceptualization b.) Change-conducive situations c.) operationalization d.) Facilitating structures |
b.) Change-conducive situations
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What type of problems in inducing change exist when change efforts do not respect the autonomy and dignity of people to choose whether or not they wish to change or to be fully informed about the consequences of such choices?
a.) Ethical problems b.) Structural problems c.) Social-psychological problems d.) Message problems |
a.) Ethical problems
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The authors of this textbook as the reader whether you (the reader) would use manipulative persuasion or coercion in thirteen scenarios. The authors state that their answers are yes on some and no on others.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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To understand social changes occuring in nations around the globe requires an understanding about how ________.
a.) the global economy works b.) nations are embedded in international contexts c.) nations' political systems work d.) enforcement of human rights laws work |
b.) nations are embedded in international contexts
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Scholars became particularly concerned with world-scale change after which time period?
a.) after World War II b.) after the Vietnam War c.) after the Sept. 11th attacks on the U.S. d.) after the global financial crisis of 2008 |
a.) after World War II
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The scenario of the American peanut farmer is used to illustrate the _________ while the Senegalese peanut farmer illustrates the _____________.
a.) developing world; developed world b.) developed world; developing world c.) peripheral world; semi-peripheral world d.) postmodern world; modern world |
b.) developed world; developing world
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_____________ means Westernization, or the diffusion of Western or European social, economic, and cultural forms to the non-Western world.
a.) Ethnocentrism b.) Industrialization c.) Modernization d.) Development |
c.) Modernization
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The notion of "industrialization" have how many primary dimensions?
a.) Two b.) Three c.) Four d.) Five |
c.) Four
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You can have modernization without much industrialization.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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Conservative scholars see growing economic and social inequality as actually necessary in the early stages of development (such as what occurred in Brazil).
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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For Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, which decade is commonly referred to as the "lost decade"?
a.) 1950s b.) 1960s c.) 1970s d.) 1980s |
d.) 1980s
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What is the name of the measure developed by the United Nations to measure development?
a.) The Human Development Index (HDI) b.) the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) c.) the Human Rights Index (HRI) d.) the General Equality Index (GEI) |
a.) The Human Development Index (HDI)
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According to your text, all development is economic.
a.) True b.) False |
b.) False
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How many stages of development are there in Rostow's model?
a.) Three b.) Four c.) Five d.) Six |
c.) Five
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What term refers to "the knitting of diverse ethnic, linguistic, and tribal regions into integrated national administrative systems"?
a.) Modernization b.) Social development c.) Ethnocentrism d.) nation building |
d.) nation building
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Through development, there is a decline in ________ and an increasing importance in _________.
a.) achieved statuses; ascribed statuses b.) ascribed statuses; achieved statuses c.) equality; authority of the government d.) authority of the government; the global economy |
b.) ascribed statuses; achieved statuses
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Which theoretical perspective arose in the 1960s, and argues that the developmental change among nations is shaped by their position in emerging global political and economic systems?
a.) World Systems Theory b.) Modernization Theory c.) World Society Theory d.) Civil Society Theory |
a.) World Systems Theory
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According to World Systems Theory, _________ are societies that are underdeveloped.
a.) Core b.) Semi-periphery c.) Periphery d.) Outer periphery |
c.) Periphery
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Wallerstein's World Systems Theory draws upon the ideas of which sociological theorist?
a.) Marxist notions of class conflict b.) Weberian notions of interpretation c.) Durkheimian notions of anomie d.) Durkheimian notions of organic solidarity |
a.) Marxist notions of class conflict
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Your text lists and discusses four sources of ongoing dependency in developing countries. These are 1) the world market for tropical commodity products; multinational corporations; extraverted economies; and _________.
a.) Extraverted infrastructure b.) Socialist economies c.) Authoritarian political structures d.) Debt |
d.) Debt
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What is the term for groups such as the Red Cross, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Oxfam, and Amnesty International?
a.) NGOs b.) MNCs c.) SSDs d.) WSPs e.) No answer text provided. |
a.) NGOs
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___________ means that as globalism intensifies, multiculturalism and local differences proliferate and intensify.
a.) glocalism b.) Democratization c.) Fundamentalism d.) Cosmopolitan localism |
d.) Cosmopolitan localism
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Today, a rough consensus exists about important elements for human progress. Without these elements, human progress is unlikely.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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Which perspective focuses on the relationship between humans and the natural environment?
a.) Maslowian perspective b.) Environmental perspective c.) Ecological perspective d.) Post-humanist perspective |
c.) Ecological perspective
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The survival of all living things depends upon the ___________ of the earth to support life.
a.) Carrying capacity b.) Resource base c.) Ecological balance d.) Biophysics |
a.) Carrying capacity
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The authors of your text state that it is increasingly important to view the earth as a open system.
a.) True b.) False |
b.) False
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The world population has _________.
a.) Grown exponentially b.) Been growing older c.) Been maintaining its numbers d.) Been in biophysical balance with the earth |
a.) Grown exponentially
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Which model presents a relatively simple conceptual model of population change?
a.) Maslow's hierarchical model b.) Population ecology model c.) Biophysical model d.) Demographic transition model |
d.) Demographic transition model
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According to your text, how many babies born today live in the poorer regions of the globe?
a.) Four out of ten b.) Half of all babies c.) Six out of ten d.) Nine out of ten |
d.) Nine out of ten
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Urbanization in the third world today is largely due to ___________.
a.) Pull of dynamic economic growth in cities b.) Push of rural poverty c.) Push of political instability in the countryside d.) Both push and pull factors |
b.) Push of rural poverty
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According to your textbook, the International Conference on Population and Development held in 1994 in Cairo officially recognized that population growth is the cause of all human problems.
a.) True b.) False |
b.) False
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There is compelling evidence indicating that since the beginning of the twentieth century, which two factors have played a major role in global environmental and ecosystem change?
a.) Large human populations; industrial technology b.) Coal burning; industrial technology c.) Large human populations; automobiles d.) Automobiles; oil spills |
a.) Large human populations; industrial technology
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According to your textbook, the greatest barriers to creating a sustainable world are political and _________.
a.) Technological b.) Economic c.) Demographic d.) Institutional |
d.) Institutional
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Your textbook states that today there is vast scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that human economic activity is the main culprit.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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According to your textbook, what is the ultimate technological energy fantasy for environmentalists?
a.) The use of trash b.) The use of hydrogen gas c.) All vehicles would be electric d.) All oil drilling would stop |
b.) The use of hydrogen gas
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Your textbook quotes U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan, who says, " by 2025, ___________ of the worlds population may be living in countries that face serious water shortages."
a.) One third b.) One half c.) Two-thirds d.) Three-quarters |
c.) Two-thirds
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The problems and devastation experience by recent natural disasters were exacerbated by shortsighted land use policies and __________.
a.) Poverty b.) Political conflicts c.) Civil rights abuses d.) Inadequate technology |
b.) Political conflicts
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The biggest question surrounding Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath was, without question, the inability of federal, state, and local governments to ___________.
a.) warn its residents of the hurrican b.) evacuate residents in a timely fashion c.) adequately maintain Now Orlean's levies d.) coordinate with FEMA |
b.) evacuate residents in a timely fashion
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In discussing the 2005 Kashmir earthquate, Pakistan rebuffed offers of helicopters and aid by which country?
a.) The U.S. b.) Germany c.) Afghanistan d.) India |
d.) India
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Which theory claims that since 1980 or so, Western industrialized countries are starting to either slow the rate of increase in environmental destruction, or are actually turning the corner toward taxing the environment less than they did in the past?
a.) Post-humanist theory b.) Biophysical balance theory c.) Ecological modernization theory d.) Ecological development theory |
c.) Ecological modernization theory
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Postindustrial economies driven by information technologies lower per capita consumption of natural resources.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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According to your text, of the twenty most polluted cities in the world, sixteen of them are from which country?
a.) Malaysia b.) Mexico c.) India d.) China |
d.) China
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The problems of world hunger result from a problem in distribution rather than a lack of resources or the technical capacity to feed the world's population.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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What is the name of the set of scholars who have made serious intellectual attempts at envisioning the future?
a.) Predictive theorists b.) Probability theorists c.) Futurists d.) Seers |
c.) Futurists
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The authors of this textbook state that understanding trends and images of the future is useful because, if done correctly, they will inevitably come to pass.
a.) True b.) False |
b.) False
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Economic globalization is driven by an expanding capitalist market system and by a deepening interdependence in access to _________.
a.) Natural resources b.) Labor c.) Information and technology d.) Popular culture |
a.) Natural resources
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According to your textbook, which language is becoming "the language of science and business"?
a.) English b.) Chinese c.) Japanese d.) Hindu |
a.) English
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The globalization of information and technology limits _________.
a.) The potential for global financial crises b.) Exploitation of labor c.) Natural resource use d.) Political control |
d.) Political control
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Which country is the "unquestioned exporter of popular culture"?
a.) The U.S. b.) Great Britain c.) China d.) Japan |
a.) The U.S.
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Rapid population growth and environmental scarcities increasingly cause wars between countries.
a.) True b.) False |
b.) False
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The authors of your text state that the emerging global order they have sketched out will not necessarily be democratic.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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The authors of your textbook state that the emerging global order they have sketched out is compatible with growing social inequality both within and between nations.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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The authors state that the reemergence of _________ is perhaps a more volatile force than globalization.
a.) Democracy b.) Localism c.) Labor unions d.) Concerns over civil rights |
b.) Localism
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Kurds, Basques, Zulus, Sioux, and Miami Cubans are just a few of the groups listed by the authors of your text as examples of minority groups whose identity is rooted in __________ rather than modernity.
a.) postmodernity b.) nationalism c.) social inequalities d.) history |
d.) history
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According to the authors of your texbook, the sovereignty of nation-states is being compromised simultaneously by how many factors?
a.) Two b.) Three c.) Five d.) Numerous (they don't provide a number) |
a.) Two
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_______________ is growing because it serves the needs of people for identity.
a.) Globalism b.) Localism c.) Religion d.) Tribalism |
b.) Localism
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After the cold war ended, the nations of the world have moved into a political-economic grouping of roughly ___________ blocs of nations?
a.) Two b.) Three c.) Four d.) Five |
b.) Three
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Compared to the European Union, NAFTA is a more purely ____________ agreement.
a.) Political b.) Economic c.) Contentious d.) Unregulated |
b.) economic
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The authors of your textbook state that the rise of regionalism may offer the best hope of mediating between the dark sides of bland technocratic globalism and intolerant re-tribalization.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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According to Herman Kahn, the "great transition" that began with industrialization in the 1700s consists of how many phases?
a.) one b.) two c.) three d.) four |
c.) Three
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The "prophets of boom" have a cornucopian view of the future, with faith in human good will and inventiveness.
a.) True b.) False |
a.) True
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The origin of the "prophets of gloom" perspective is rooted in the 1960s think tank called the ____.
a.) Club of Rome b.) School of Nihilism c.) The Weathermen d.) The Luddites |
a.) Club of Rome
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The overall message of The Global 2000 Report was one of ___________ if current trends continue.
a.) Ambivalence b.) Cautious optimism c.) Pessimism d.) Great despair |
c.) Pessimism
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