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sociology
week 12 quiz
Question | Answer |
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Xenophobia is an illogical fear and even hatred of foreigners and foreign goods. | TRUE |
_____ is a societal level of disjuncture between people seeking jobs and the jobs that are available. | Structural unemployment |
Socialism is an economic system in which there is government ownership (often referred to as “state run”) of goods and their production, with an impetus to share work and wealth equally among the members of a society. | True |
A ________ is two or more consecutive quarters of economic decline. | recession |
Depolarization is a practice where the differences between low-end and high-end jobs become greater and the number of people in the middle levels decreases. | False |
________ is a form of socialism under which individuals and cooperative groups exchange products with one another on the basis of mutually satisfactory contracts. | Mutualism |
Mercantilism is an economic policy based on national policies of accumulating silver and gold by controlling markets with colonies and other countries through taxes and customs charges. | True |
______ is an internationally integrated economic links that connect workers and corporations for the purpose of manufacture and marketing | Global commodity chains |
A depression is a sustained recession across several economic sectors. | True |
__________ is a process where people exchange one form of goods or services for another. | Bartering |
Globalization has also led to the development of _____. | global commodity chains |
________ focus on the way reality is socially constructed through day-to-day interaction and how society is composed of people communicating based on a shared understanding of symbols. | Symbolic interactionists |
________ explains that as a country's economy grows, its societal organization changes to become more like that of an industrialized society. | Convergence theory |
Plato, in ancient Greece, suggested a republic in which people shared their material goods. | True |
The earliest agriculture was in the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East around _______ years ago | 11,000-10,000 |