Exam 10: Race and Ethnicity

Many of us pay over $3.00 for a cup of specialty coffee.Noting what your text says about the coffee farmers in low-income countries,which statement best describes this relationship between coffee producers and coffee drinkers?

Which term would best classify the country of Afghanistan,which is dependent on other nations for capital?

Which of the following is NOT a policy change suggested by the United Nations to help low-income countries improve their economic situation?

Production of which kind of commodities most commonly involves establishing manufacturing operations in low-wage countries?

According to a United Nations study,the number of people in China living in absolute poverty was reduced by what percentage?

Which of the following initiatives would address the first goal of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and Targets?

Which of the following is NOT a critique of modernization theory?

What is one of the conclusions reached in the United Nations Development program's recent report,based on the per capita average national income?

Which theory of global stratification suggests that low-income economies can move to middle- and high-income economies by achieving self-sustained economic growth?

What was the annual economic growth of emerging East Asian countries between 1998 and 2005?

Modernization theory has its roots in the feminist tradition.

Some sociologists argue that the problem of global stratification lies not in the inability of powerful nations to "deal" effectively with poverty elsewhere but in the consumer habits of those people living in the richer nations.

According to the modernization theory of global stratification,what stage of development typically involves a fatalistic value system?

List four of the eight Millennium Goals and Targets.

How many women die each year during pregnancy and childbirth?

How many people suffer from chronic malnutrition?

Discuss the main assumptions of world-systems theory and outline how this perspective views the global economy.

In which stage of economic development is a country in which people only have a little money saved?

What solution was implemented following a number of employee suicides at Foxconn?

Which theory of development was linked to the fight against communism waged by the U.S.government during the Cold War?