Exam 18: The World System, Colonialism, and Inequality

The domestic system is the economic system in which an organizer-entrepreneur supplies the raw materials to workers in their homes and collects the finished products from them.

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Question 21

What term refers to wealth or resources invested in business with the intent of producing a profit?

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Question 22

According to Weber, what are the three dimensions of social stratification?

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Question 23

The current world stratification system features a substantial contrast between capitalists and workers in the core nations, and workers on the periphery.

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Question 24

What best characterizes the intervention philosophy of the British empire?

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Question 25

What does the term Columbian exchange refer to?

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Question 26

The share of national wealth held by the top 1 percent of Americans is less than that of the top 1 percent of most European countries.

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Question 27

According to Gerhard Lenski (1966), in advanced industrial societies what reduces the polarization between the owning and working classes?

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Question 28

What term refers to the ideological justification for outsiders to guide native groups in specific directions?

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Question 29

Mass production gave rise to a culture of consumption, which has become global in scope.

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Question 30

Many of the political, linguistic, religious, and economic distinctions among the countries of West Africa today are artifacts of colonialism.

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Question 31

What best typifies the intervention philosophy of the French empire?

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Question 32

Weber argued that without Catholic ethics and values, capitalism and industrialism would have never spread beyond England.

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Question 33

When deciding where to locate polluting facilities, industries typically target minority and low-income neighborhoods.

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Question 34

In anthropology, history, and literature, the field of postcolonial studies has gained prominence since the 1970s. Postcolonial refers to

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Question 35

Postsocialist Russia's economy was growing again by 2010, as were its birth rate and average life expectancy.

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Question 36

French colonial strategies incorporated both direct and indirect rule.

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Question 37

Which of the following refers to a conscious policy of extending the rule of a country or an empire over foreign nations and of taking and holding foreign colonies?

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Question 38

The United States originally started out as a peripheral nation, but by 1900 it had asserted itself as a member of the industrialized core.

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Question 39

By promoting rural-to-urban migration, industrialization hastened the process of proletarianization, which is

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The domestic system is the economic system in which an organizer-entrepreneur supplies the raw materials to workers in their homes and collects the finished products from them.

What term refers to wealth or resources invested in business with the intent of producing a profit?

According to Weber, what are the three dimensions of social stratification?

The current world stratification system features a substantial contrast between capitalists and workers in the core nations, and workers on the periphery.

What best characterizes the intervention philosophy of the British empire?

What does the term Columbian exchange refer to?

The share of national wealth held by the top 1 percent of Americans is less than that of the top 1 percent of most European countries.

According to Gerhard Lenski (1966), in advanced industrial societies what reduces the polarization between the owning and working classes?

What term refers to the ideological justification for outsiders to guide native groups in specific directions?

Mass production gave rise to a culture of consumption, which has become global in scope.

Many of the political, linguistic, religious, and economic distinctions among the countries of West Africa today are artifacts of colonialism.

What best typifies the intervention philosophy of the French empire?

Weber argued that without Catholic ethics and values, capitalism and industrialism would have never spread beyond England.

When deciding where to locate polluting facilities, industries typically target minority and low-income neighborhoods.

In anthropology, history, and literature, the field of postcolonial studies has gained prominence since the 1970s. Postcolonial refers to

Postsocialist Russia's economy was growing again by 2010, as were its birth rate and average life expectancy.

French colonial strategies incorporated both direct and indirect rule.

Which of the following refers to a conscious policy of extending the rule of a country or an empire over foreign nations and of taking and holding foreign colonies?

The United States originally started out as a peripheral nation, but by 1900 it had asserted itself as a member of the industrialized core.

By promoting rural-to-urban migration, industrialization hastened the process of proletarianization, which is

What Is Anthropology

Culture

Doing Anthropology

Evolution, Genetics, and Human Variation

The Primates

Early Hominins

The Genus Homo

The First Farmers

The First Cities and States

Language and Communication

Making a Living

Political Systems

Families, Kinship, and Marriage

Gender

Religion

Ethnicity and Race

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Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World

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