Sociology Exam 4 part 1

The federal bailouts of the banking and auto industries can be considered

• unemployment

• corporate welfare

• welfare reform

• none of these are correct

Which perspective would study how "welfare scapegoating" ignored federal handouts to individuals and families?

• functionalist

• interactionist

• conflict

• feminist

In large developing nations, the most socially significant mobility is

• the movement out of poverty

• the employment of women

• property ownership

• proof of a confirmed dowry

The notion that peripheral nations move from having traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed nations is known as

• dependency theory

• regional analysis

• modernization theory

• colonialism

Who among the following has noted that modern societies tend to be urban, literate, and industrial, with sophisticated transportation and media systems, and families in such societies are organized within the nuclear family unit rather than the extended family model?

• Wendell Bell

• Immanuel Wallerstein

• Karl Marx

• None of these

The process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies is called

• world system analysis

• reconstructionism

• modernization

• developmental theory

Conflict theorist contend that multinational corporations are attracted to developing countries because developing countries

• have a large pool of cheap labor

• discourage strong trade unions

• often create a favorable "climate for investment"

• all of these answers are correct

Dependency theory is defined as

• a functionalist approach proposing that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations

• a far-reaching process by which peripheral nations move from having traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies

• an approach contending that as developing countries make economic advances, they remain weak and subservient to core nations

• applying to the interactionist perspective

Which of the following is a zemiperiphery nation?

• Germany

• South Korea

• Peru

• United States

Neocolonialism is defined as the

• maintenance of political social economic, and cultural domination over a people by a power for an extended period of time, such as French control over major parts of northern Africa.

• continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries

• invasion of Third World countries by the military forces of the U.S. or Russia since 1965

• All of these answers are correct