Question 1

In postsocialist Russia's initial changeover to capitalism, all of the following declined EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)  farm and industry subsidies. 
B)  the gross domestic product. 
C)  the poverty rate. 
D)  life expectancy. 
E)  the birth rate. 
A)  farm and industry subsidies. 
B)  the gross domestic product. 
C)  the poverty rate. 
D)  life expectancy. 
E)  the birth rate.

Question 2

Which of the following statements about core nations is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A)  They have complex economies. 
B)  They have advanced systems of production. 
C)  They export their raw materials to other countries. 
D)  They represent the dominant structural position in the world system. 
E)  They consist of the strongest and most powerful states. 
A)  They have complex economies. 
B)  They have advanced systems of production. 
C)  They export their raw materials to other countries. 
D)  They represent the dominant structural position in the world system. 
E)  They consist of the strongest and most powerful states.

Question 3

Marx argued that socioeconomic stratification was based on the sharp and simple division between the successful Protestant industrialists and the poor Catholic peasantry.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

________ is the term for the physical destruction of ethnic groups by murder, warfare, and introduced diseases.

Accepted Answer

A)  Biocide 
B)  Patricide 
C)  Sociocide 
D)  Genocide 
E)  Ethnocide 
A)  Biocide 
B)  Patricide 
C)  Sociocide 
D)  Genocide 
E)  Ethnocide

Question 5

Which of the following statements about Karl Marx is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A)  He analyzed 19th-century industrial production capitalism. 
B)  He called the people who sold their own labor the proletariat. 
C)  He emphasized class consciousness. 
D)  He called the owners of the means of production the bourgeoisie. 
E)  He viewed socioeconomic stratification in terms of several classes with different but complementary interests. 
A)  He analyzed 19th-century industrial production capitalism. 
B)  He called the people who sold their own labor the proletariat. 
C)  He emphasized class consciousness. 
D)  He called the owners of the means of production the bourgeoisie. 
E)  He viewed socioeconomic stratification in terms of several classes with different but complementary interests.

Question 6

Neoliberalism refers to a revival of Adam Smith's classic economic liberalism, which suggests that governments should not regulate private enterprise and that free market forces should rule.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Belgian colonial administrators were careful to use culturally significant differences to distinguish between the Hutus and Tutsis.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Communism has two meanings, distinguished by how they are written. Small-c communism describes a social system in which property is owned by the community and in which people work for the common good. Large-C Communism

Accepted Answer

A)  is an imperial doctrine to appropriate private capital for the sake of the survival of the state. 
B)  is just another version of neoliberalism but in disguise. 
C)  refers to the social aspects of small-c communism. 
D)  is Lenin's political theory of small-c communism. 
E)  was a political movement and doctrine seeking to overthrow capitalism and establish a form of communism such as that which prevailed in the Soviet Union (the USSR) from 1917 to 1991. 
A)  is an imperial doctrine to appropriate private capital for the sake of the survival of the state. 
B)  is just another version of neoliberalism but in disguise. 
C)  refers to the social aspects of small-c communism. 
D)  is Lenin's political theory of small-c communism. 
E)  was a political movement and doctrine seeking to overthrow capitalism and establish a form of communism such as that which prevailed in the Soviet Union (the USSR) from 1917 to 1991.

Question 9

What is the name of the political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time?

Accepted Answer

A)  industrialization 
B)  apartheid 
C)  colonialism 
D)  alienation 
E)  petty capitalism 
A)  industrialization 
B)  apartheid 
C)  colonialism 
D)  alienation 
E)  petty capitalism

Question 10

Trade and other economic relations between core and periphery disproportionately benefit capitalists in the core.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

The labels First World, Second World, and Third World represent a common, if ethnocentric, way of categorizing nations. First World refers to the democratic West, which is traditionally conceived of as being in opposition to a Second World ruled by

Accepted Answer

A)  Communism. 
B)  primitive neoliberalism. 
C)  imperialism. 
D)  folk economic and political models. 
E)  dictators. 
A)  Communism. 
B)  primitive neoliberalism. 
C)  imperialism. 
D)  folk economic and political models. 
E)  dictators.

Question 12

The distinction between small-c communism and large-C Communism is an example of arbitrary concepts defined in the social sciences.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Colonialism refers to the solicitation by peripheral countries of political and financial assistance from core nations.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Neoliberalism is a new form of the old economic liberalism laid out in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776). To Smith, economic liberalism encouraged free enterprise and competition, with the goal of generating profits. However, this meaning of liberal

Accepted Answer

A)  is a more accurate use of the term than the one Americans typically hear in current talk radio. 
B)  is a Protestant ideology. 
C)  varies depending on whether it refers to politics in a Western or non-Western context. 
D)  is different from the one typically used in current U.S. politics, in which liberal is the opposite of conservative. 
E)  has no implications for the relationship between economics and the state. 
A)  is a more accurate use of the term than the one Americans typically hear in current talk radio. 
B)  is a Protestant ideology. 
C)  varies depending on whether it refers to politics in a Western or non-Western context. 
D)  is different from the one typically used in current U.S. politics, in which liberal is the opposite of conservative. 
E)  has no implications for the relationship between economics and the state.

Question 15

What economic system is committed to production for sale or exchange, with the object of maximizing profits rather than supplying domestic needs?

Accepted Answer

A)  world-system theory 
B)  communism 
C)  neoliberalism 
D)  capitalist world economy 
E)  intervention philosophy 
A)  world-system theory 
B)  communism 
C)  neoliberalism 
D)  capitalist world economy 
E)  intervention philosophy

Question 16

Adam Smith laid out an economic plan of laissez-faire capitalism that is currently called

Accepted Answer

A)  conservatism. 
B)  colonialism. 
C)  democracy. 
D)  neoliberalism. 
E)  socialism. 
A)  conservatism. 
B)  colonialism. 
C)  democracy. 
D)  neoliberalism. 
E)  socialism.

In postsocialist Russia's initial changeover to capitalism, all of the following declined EXCEPT

Which of the following statements about core nations is FALSE?

Marx argued that socioeconomic stratification was based on the sharp and simple division between the successful Protestant industrialists and the poor Catholic peasantry.

________ is the term for the physical destruction of ethnic groups by murder, warfare, and introduced diseases.

Which of the following statements about Karl Marx is FALSE?

Neoliberalism refers to a revival of Adam Smith's classic economic liberalism, which suggests that governments should not regulate private enterprise and that free market forces should rule.

Belgian colonial administrators were careful to use culturally significant differences to distinguish between the Hutus and Tutsis.

Communism has two meanings, distinguished by how they are written. Small-c communism describes a social system in which property is owned by the community and in which people work for the common good. Large-C Communism

What is the name of the political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time?

Trade and other economic relations between core and periphery disproportionately benefit capitalists in the core.

The labels First World, Second World, and Third World represent a common, if ethnocentric, way of categorizing nations. First World refers to the democratic West, which is traditionally conceived of as being in opposition to a Second World ruled by

The distinction between small-c communism and large-C Communism is an example of arbitrary concepts defined in the social sciences.

Colonialism refers to the solicitation by peripheral countries of political and financial assistance from core nations.

Neoliberalism is a new form of the old economic liberalism laid out in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776). To Smith, economic liberalism encouraged free enterprise and competition, with the goal of generating profits. However, this meaning of liberal

What economic system is committed to production for sale or exchange, with the object of maximizing profits rather than supplying domestic needs?

Adam Smith laid out an economic plan of laissez-faire capitalism that is currently called

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

Applying Anthropology

Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World

Filters

Exam 18: The World System, Colonialism, and Inequality

In postsocialist Russia's initial changeover to capitalism, all of the following declined EXCEPT

Which of the following statements about core nations is FALSE?

Marx argued that socioeconomic stratification was based on the sharp and simple division between the successful Protestant industrialists and the poor Catholic peasantry.

________ is the term for the physical destruction of ethnic groups by murder, warfare, and introduced diseases.

Which of the following statements about Karl Marx is FALSE?

Neoliberalism refers to a revival of Adam Smith's classic economic liberalism, which suggests that governments should not regulate private enterprise and that free market forces should rule.

Belgian colonial administrators were careful to use culturally significant differences to distinguish between the Hutus and Tutsis.

Communism has two meanings, distinguished by how they are written. Small-c communism describes a social system in which property is owned by the community and in which people work for the common good. Large-C Communism

What is the name of the political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time?

Trade and other economic relations between core and periphery disproportionately benefit capitalists in the core.

The labels First World, Second World, and Third World represent a common, if ethnocentric, way of categorizing nations. First World refers to the democratic West, which is traditionally conceived of as being in opposition to a Second World ruled by

The distinction between small-c communism and large-C Communism is an example of arbitrary concepts defined in the social sciences.

Colonialism refers to the solicitation by peripheral countries of political and financial assistance from core nations.

Neoliberalism is a new form of the old economic liberalism laid out in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776). To Smith, economic liberalism encouraged free enterprise and competition, with the goal of generating profits. However, this meaning of liberal

What economic system is committed to production for sale or exchange, with the object of maximizing profits rather than supplying domestic needs?

Adam Smith laid out an economic plan of laissez-faire capitalism that is currently called

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

Applying Anthropology

Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World

Filters