Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 2

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

Question 3

Mass production has led to critical consumption as people are forced to make careful decisions regarding what is needed and what is excess.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

According to Wallerstein, the nations in the world system can be classified into three types: core, periphery, and frontier.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

This chapter argues that the World Bank's approach to corruption is

Accepted Answer

A)  effective when dealing with cases in postsocialist nations. 
B)  wrong to assume that the state (public)-private dichotomy is universal and that it takes a similar form in all societies. 
C)  right to assume that the fallacy of underdifferentiation applies equally to all societies. 
D)  wrong to assume that in postsocialist nations officials don't respect business moral codes. 
E)  ineffective, because it lacks the expertise of ethnographically informed secret agents.

Question 7

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

Question 8

What best characterizes the intervention philosophy of the British empire?

Accepted Answer

A)  manifest destiny 
B)  white man's burden 
C)  this land is our land 
D)  fifty-four forty or fight 
E)  in his majesty's domain

Question 9

According to Marx, who are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?

Accepted Answer

A)  the products of gender differentiation from Europe's tribal past 
B)  groups destined to reconcile through the postcapitalist process of alienation 
C)  distinct and opposed classes produced by the world capitalist economy 
D)  exogamous social groups 
E)  moiety groups that dominated Western capitalism

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

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 12

One consequence of the ongoing globalization of work and migration is that skilled Western workers must now compete against well-educated workers in such low-wage countries as India, where an experienced software programmer earns one-fifth the average salary of a comparable U.S. worker.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

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 just another version of neoliberalism but in disguise. 
B)  is an imperial doctrine to appropriate private capital for the sake of the survival of the state. 
C)  is Lenin's political theory of small-c communism. 
D)  refers to the social aspects 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 14

Which of the following statements about British colonialism is NOT true?

Accepted Answer

A)  It lacked an intervention philosophy. 
B)  It can be divided into two stages. 
C)  It was legitimized by the racist notion of the "white man's burden." 
D)  It began to disintegrate after World War II. 
E)  It was partly driven by business interests.

Question 15

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 16

Which of the following did NOT result from Christopher Columbus's voyages?

Accepted Answer

A)  The rate of violence among Native Americans markedly increased. 
B)  Europeans extracted silver and gold from the land. 
C)  Europeans enslaved Native Americans. 
D)  Europeans offered statehood to Peru, Mexico, and Cuba. 
E)  Europeans colonized New World lands.

Question 17

Who viewed the nation-state as an instrument of oppression and religion as a method of diverting and controlling the masses?

Accepted Answer

A)  Weber 
B)  Freud 
C)  Tylor 
D)  Marx 
E)  Morgan

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Hundreds of ethnic groups and so-called tribes are colonial constructs. What does this mean-does it suggest that they are only imaginary and therefore of no consequence? Provide illustrations with your answers.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Hundreds of ethnic groups and so-called tribes...

Question 20

Higher wages and improved benefits for workers in core nations are possible only because an added surplus from the periphery enables companies to maintain high profit margins.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 23: The World System and Colonialism

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

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

Mass production has led to critical consumption as people are forced to make careful decisions regarding what is needed and what is excess.

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

According to Wallerstein, the nations in the world system can be classified into three types: core, periphery, and frontier.

This chapter argues that the World Bank's approach to corruption is

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 best characterizes the intervention philosophy of the British empire?

According to Marx, who are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?

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

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

One consequence of the ongoing globalization of work and migration is that skilled Western workers must now compete against well-educated workers in such low-wage countries as India, where an experienced software programmer earns one-fifth the average salary of a comparable U.S. worker.

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

Which of the following statements about British colonialism is NOT true?

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

Which of the following did NOT result from Christopher Columbus's voyages?

Who viewed the nation-state as an instrument of oppression and religion as a method of diverting and controlling the masses?

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

Hundreds of ethnic groups and so-called tribes are colonial constructs. What does this mean-does it suggest that they are only imaginary and therefore of no consequence? Provide illustrations with your answers.

Higher wages and improved benefits for workers in core nations are possible only because an added surplus from the periphery enables companies to maintain high profit margins.