WorksheetsSociology Ch 27: Global Stratification & Poverty
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
How do sociologists sort countries nowadays?
Into groups based on their specific levels of economic productivity.
Into rich, middle class and poor
into 1st, 2nd and 3rd world countries
Into western and eastern countries
What does the gross domestic product or GPD do?
It measures the total import of a country.
It measures the total outport of a country.
It measures the total input of a country.
It measures the total output of a country.
What does the gross national income or GNI do?
There is no indicator such as GNI
Measures GPD per capita.
defines the poverty line
it is used to distinguish the line between socioeconomical classes
Those with GNI above $12,500 per year. As the name suggests, standards of living are higher here than the rest of the world.
upper middle income countries
high income countries
lower middle income countries
low income countries
They are defined as those with GNI between $4,000 and $12,500 per year.
upper middle income countries
high income countries
lower middle income countries
low income countries
Countries with a GNI between $1,000 and $4,000 per year. Here, access to services, like quality healthcare and education, is limited to those who are well-off.
upper middle income countries
high income countries
lower middle income countries
low income countries
What do upper middle income countries typically function?
They tend to have advancing economies with both manufacturing and high tech markets.
They are heavily urban, have access to public infrastructure like education and health.
They have comfortable standards of living for most citizens.
All of the above
What does poverty look like worldwide compared to the US?
poverty worldwide is mostly rural.
Agricultural societies produce less than industrialized ones.
both A & B
Neither A nor B.
What percent of people living in lower middle income countries live in urban areas?
65%
60%
40%
80%
What is the economy based around in lower middle income countries?
mining
Manufacturing and natural resource production.
Agriculture
Advanced industries
How does the maternal mortality rate compare in high income countries versus lower middle income countries?
The rate is 5 times higher in lower middle income countries
One-half of children under the age of five are malnourished.
One-fifth of children under the age of five are malnourished.
The rate is 10 times higher in lower middle income countries
What classifies a country as low income?
They have yearly GNI less than $1500 per year.
They have yearly GNI less than $10000 per year.
They have yearly GNI less than $4000 per year.
They have yearly GNI less than $1000 per year.
Not only do low in come countries face income poverty, they also have greater rates of disease, worse healthcare and education systems, and many of their citizens lack access to basic needs like food and clean water. Here, 8% of children die before the age of five. And among older children, more than one-third never finish primary school.
True
False
It exists in all societies, regardless of the overall income level of the society.
relative poverty
real poverty
absolute poverty
extreme poverty
When a lack of resources is literally life-threatening.
relative poverty
real poverty
absolute poverty
extreme poverty
______________ results range from malnutrition to homelessness to children working in dangerous and illegal jobs.
relative poverty
real poverty
absolute poverty
Child poverty
UNICEF estimates that there are ____ million children worldwide who are orphans.
25,7
10.2
18.5
8.8
child malnutrition is the worst in ________________, where one-third of children are affected. And half of all child deaths worldwide are attributed to hunger.
Asia and north Africa
South Asia and middle east
middle east and Africa
South Asia and Africa
What is a reason that women make up a disproportionate number of the globally poor?
Many women who do work don't get to control the fruits of their labor.
Even though women in low income countries produce 70% of the food, men own the land that the women's labor is done on.
90% of the land in poor countries is owned by men.
All of the above
What is a major cause of global inequalities?
child labor
higher death rates
Population growth
all of the above
