Exam 14: Capitalism and the Economy

At Thanksgiving dinner,college student Janie expresses her dreams to her parents.Her aunt says,"I'm not sure that's realistic,honey!" Janie says,"I'm a postfeminist! That's why I expect to ________."

In discussing financial changes that influenced the economic volatility of recent years,Adeel Qalbani describes how commercial banks are mostly ________,but investment banks are mostly ________.

Toma is a nineteenth-century peasant who moved to a city to find work.Back in his village,most of Toma's transactions were bartered-swapping an animal for cloth or potatoes for a tool.In the city,monetization governs wage labor,which means that:

How did the enclosure movement change the economy in the early Tudor period in England? The enclosure movement:

Serena works for a shoemaker in a small shop,doing a variety of tasks.At the end of the week,the shoemaker offers her a choice: She can be paid with cash,or with her choice of a pair of shoes.Serena chooses cash,which confirms Georg Simmel's theory that says ________ is part of a historical evolution of economy that has many advantages.

Barbara Risman equated gender inequality,in the form of marriage,to:

Martin decides to start a religious movement of people who both work and worship with intensity.He studies religious history and decides to create a theology that will make people feel insecure about their eternal destiny so that they will work hard in an attempt to prove themselves worthy.Martin's religious movement is an application of whose theory?

There are two producers of wagon wheels that together are the exclusive providers to a large community.The executives of these companies meet to set minimum prices and production levels,thereby ensuring that they each will make a higher profit than they would in a free market.This is an example of a(n):

One good thing about a salary,according to Simmel,is that:

Karl has been hired to paint a house blue,but he mixes the color wrong,and it turns out purple instead of blue.Under which wage system(s)would he be responsible for paying for new paint?

According to sociologists Jerry Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson,because workers want to advance in their careers,many avoid taking full advantage of:

Because the monetary system is increasingly depersonalized,George Simmel argues that it is now possible to:

Feminist sociologists claim that the family wage is a patriarchal bargain because it implies that:

Globalization in the twenty-first century is characterized by:

During the agricultural revolution,the enclosure movement caused many former serfs to move to cities in search of work and led to the rise of:

Angela is writing a story about a "typical American family." She researches the work lives of the statistically typical family and concludes that her story will feature:

If you are a salaried worker and you miss a day of work,how does your salary change?

Adam Smith argues that money is inherently social because:

What is a major reason unions are on the decline in the United States today?

The personal bankruptcy rate in America is higher than it has ever been.Why? Do any theories or theorists help explain this trend?