Exam 9: Global Inequality

What is a characteristic of world-systems theory?

The countries of the former Soviet Union began to industrialize in the late twentieth century and are now highly industrialized. Since the collapse of communism, their standard of living:

According to Korzeniewicz and Moran, what is one reason why some countries are trapped in a cycle of long-term inequality?

MATCHING -World-systems theory

Where would you find the highest rates of undernourishment?

What was the original cause of underdevelopment in the low-income countries according to dependency theory?

Of the 37 million people infected with HIV/AIDS, nearly 70 percent of them reside in:

Neoliberalism holds that only through unfettered global free trade will the world economy prosper and allow all countries to grow. What theory does neoliberalism originate from?

Which type of countries contained 9 percent of the world's population but produced only five-tenths of a percent of the world's GDP in 2016?

Brazil is industrializing more than other Latin American countries, but it is not fully industrialized like the United States. A world-systems analysis would say that Brazil is a ________ country.

According to dependency theorists, colonialism played a vital role in the impoverishment of poorer countries because powerful countries:

Barbara believes that rich countries exploit poor countries. With which theory would she most likely agree?

When sociologists talk about networks of labor, production, and consumption of products that span the world, what are they referring to?

Is globalization the principal cause of job loss and growing inequality in the United States?

According to Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran, what are the underlying causes of persistent inequality in the world today? What does their research suggest about solutions? Your answer should be one to two paragraphs in length.

According to Korzeniewicz and Moran, what is a main reason for the persistence of inequality between countries?

More than half of the world's hungry are found in Asia and the Pacific.

After Jamaica gained independence from its colonial ruler, Britain, it was able to develop its banana industry by having access to the banana market in Britain. How would a dependency theorist describe this process?

Elvira is an economic adviser who supports cultural policies that attempt to change people's behavior to encourage development. She would most likely agree with which theory of global inequality?

According to world-systems theory, the "flow" of natural resources is from: