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WorksheetsReview Quiz for Chapter 2 4
Total questions: 67
Worksheet time: 34mins
Which of the following terms is defined as the set of values, beliefs, rules, and institutions held by a specific group of people?
law
philosophy
culture
science
Ethnocentricity can be defined as the ________.
scientific description of individual human societies
systematic study of an ethnic group's religious core
merging of all ethnic practices into one homogeneous culture
belief that one's own ethnic group or culture is superior to that of others
Detailed knowledge about a culture that enables people to work happily and effectively within it is called ________.
cultural literacy
cultural imperialism
cultural diffusion
cultural divergence
Which of the following is defined as a group of people who share a unique way of life within a larger, dominant culture?
macroculture
subculture
cultural universal
monoculture
Which of the following is a cultural component that implies gauging the beauty and appeal of artwork?
customs
mores
folkways
aesthetics
Which of the following terms is used to refer to the ideas, beliefs, and customs to which people are emotionally attached?
attitudes
memetics
aesthetics
values
Which of the following terms is used to refer to the positive or negative evaluations, feelings, and tendencies that individuals harbor toward objects or concepts?
customs
attitudes
traditions
values
Which of the following statements is true of attitudes?
Over the years, they become more rigid than values.
They are learned from role models.
Because they're formed within a cultural context, they mirror the attitudes of surrounding countries.
They are developed only for the most important aspects of life.
A(n) ________ is anything that represents a culture's way of life, including gestures, material objects, traditions, and concepts.
social structure
social status
cultural baggage
cultural trait
________ is increasing the pace of both cultural diffusion and cultural change.
Collectivism
Enculturation
Fundamentalism
Globalization
Which of the following refers to the process by which cultural traits spread from one culture to another?
cultural heterogeneity
cultural imperialism
cultural diffusion
cultural literacy
Which of the following terms is used to refer to habits or ways of behaving in specific circumstances that are passed down through generations?
customs
attitudes
prejudices
aesthetics
The French Government promotes the concept of ________ by building museums and monuments to preserve the legacies of important events and people.
subculture
national culture
popular culture
monoculture
________ refers to the replacement of one culture's traditions, folk heroes, and artifacts with equivalents from another.
Cultural imperialism
Social stratification
Cultural encoding
Social conditioning
The sale of Hollywood movies in Konesia has doubled in the last five years while those of locally-produced movies has fallen. In addition to this, sociologists have noted that currently, the teenagers of Konesia are less inclined to don their traditional costumes, preferring to adopt Western clothes instead. These changing trends illustrate ________.
cultural imperialism
cultural universal
cultural retention
cultural elitism
The practice by which managers and other employees find jobs within their own companies for relatives is known as ________.
ethnocentricism
enculturation
nepotism
stratification
Nepotism often prevails in ________ cultures.
extended-family
individualistic
monotheistic
nuclear family
Which of the following terms is used to refer to the process of ranking people into social layers or classes?
social transformation
social stratification
social loafing
social mobility
________ tend to occupy the highest social layer in industrialized countries.
Teachers
Scientists
Medical doctors
Business leaders
________ refers to the ease with which individuals can move up or down a culture's social ladder.
Social standing
Social mobility
Social inertia
Social loafing
A caste system is a system of social stratification in which ________.
a person's social status is decided by his acquired wealth
a person's position in society depends upon his educational qualifications and achievements
people are born into a social ranking, with no opportunity for social mobility
people join highly exclusive associations that encourage external interaction
A class system is a system of social stratification in which ________.
people are divided into various political groups and subgroups
a person's social rank depends upon his/her parentage
people join highly exclusive associations that forbid external interaction
personal ability and actions determine an individual's social status and mobility
Which of the following is the most common form of social stratification in the world today?
racial segregation
class system
gender-based division
language-based stratification
Lingua franca is ________.
a language spoken by all countries in a continent
a form of non-verbal language adopted by all nations as the official language for business transactions
a unique language developed by Asian countries
a 'link' language understood by two parties who speak different native languages
Which of the following terms is used to refer to the departure of highly educated people from one profession, geographic region, or nation to another?
social mobility
repatriation
stratification
brain drain
Reverse brain drain is the process by which ________.
manual laborers migrate from low-income countries to high-income countries
former communist nations lure professionals back to their homeland
students from Europe choose to enroll themselves in American universities
companies in high-income countries hire people from low-income countries to fill white-collar positions
According to Hofstede's framework, which of the following dimensions describes the degree to which a culture accepts social inequality among its people?
power distance
uncertainty avoidance
individualism
collectivism
According to Hofstede's framework, organizations which have cultures that score high on ________ tend to be more hierarchical, with power deriving from prestige, force, and inheritance.
uncertainty avoidance
power distance
short-term orientation
femininity
According to Hofstede's framework, a culture with large power distance tends to be characterized by ________.
inequality between superiors and subordinates
the absence of any form of hierarchy
power derived from hard work and entrepreneurial drive
a preference for individualism over collectivism
Sally, a social worker from the United States, has been stationed in Konesia for a year. She notices several things about the Konesian society; the people who report to her, for example, do so with an excessive amount of submissiveness, and her superior seems to expect the same of her. Which of the following statements about Konesia would be consistent with Hofstede's framework?
Konesians work best in an informal environment.
Konesia has a large power distance culture.
Konesian society is primarily individualistic.
Konesians derive power from their entrepreneurial drive.
According to Hofstede's framework, a culture with ________ values security and places its faith in strong systems of rules and procedures in society.
large uncertainty avoidance
low power distance
short-term orientation
high individualism
According to Hofstede's framework, cultures scoring high on the dimension of ________ tend to be characterized by personal assertiveness and the accumulation of wealth, typically translating into an entrepreneurial drive.
power distance
collectivism
uncertainty avoidance
masculinity
Which of the following terms refers to the broadest measure of economic development of a country?
gross domestic product (GDP)
purchasing power parity (PPP)
gross national product (GNP)
human development index (HDI)
________ is the value of all goods and services produced by the domestic economy over a one-year period.
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Human development index (HDI)
Gross national product (GNP)
Purchasing power parity (PPP)
The ________ of a country is its gross national product divided by its population.
GNP per capita
GDP per capita
purchasing power parity
purchasing power
The relative ability of two countries' currencies to buy the same basket of goods in those two countries is called ________.
gross national product
gross domestic product
purchasing power
purchasing power parity
An investor wants to invest in a country that has a high gross national income (GNI). Which of the following countries would most likely qualify as a prospect?
Nepal
India
Japan
Vietnam
Which of the following terms is used to refer to the exchange of goods and services for other goods and services instead of money?
fiat money
letter of credit
barter
guanxi
The GDP per capita of a country is lower than that of France. If the GDP per capita of the country is adjusted for PPP, the country's revised GDP is higher than that of France. Which of the following is most likely true about the country?
The cost of living in the country is higher than that of France.
The cost of living in the country is lower than that of France.
The cost of living in the country is approximately equal to that of France.
The cost of living in the country has increased over the past decade.
Which of the following measures the extent to which a government equitably provides its people with a long and healthy life, an education, and a decent standard of living?
category development index
gross national product index
human development index
purchasing power index
A company is conducting a research on new markets by comparing countries in terms of their human development index (HDI) scores. The company wishes to expand into a market where individuals experience a very high level of total well-being. Which of the following countries would the company most likely choose?
Russia
Mexico
China
Japan
Which of the following is true about economic development of a nation?
The purchasing power parity is a poor indicator of a people's total well-being.
GDP is a larger figure and includes a nation's income generated from exports, imports, and international operations.
Illegal activities such as gambling and black market transactions are considered in GDP and GNP.
Using gross product figures to compare production across countries accounts for different cost of living in each country.
Which of the following statements is true of national production?
Marketers use GDP or GNP figures to determine whether a country's population is wealthy enough to purchase its products.
Per capita numbers provide a detailed picture of development of the entire country.
Gross product figures accurately indicate whether a nation's economy is growing or shrinking.
Volunteer work and unpaid household work are considered in GDP and GNP.
Nations having the poorest infrastructures and lowest personal incomes are called ________.
developed countries
newly industrialized countries
emerging markets
developing countries
A country that has recently increased the portion of its national production and exports derived from industrial operations is called a(n) ________.
newly industrialized country (NIC)
developing country
emerging market
developed country
Both GDP and GNP measure a nation's income per person.
TRUE
FALSE
Volunteer work and unpaid household work are included in GNP.
TRUE
FALSE
Barter is an alternative for buyers who lack money needed to pay for imports.
TRUE
FALSE
The concept of purchasing power parity (PPP) must be applied to understand the true value of a currency in its home country.
TRUE
FALSE
The human development index (HDI) demonstrates that high national income alone guarantees human progress.
TRUE
FALSE
Nations with the poorest infrastructures and lowest personal incomes are called developing countries.
TRUE
FALSE
One of the key obstacles faced by countries in economic transition is the lack of managerial expertise.
TRUE
FALSE
________ is the process by which a nation changes its fundamental economic organization and creates new free-market institutions.
Central planning
Economic transition
Industrialization
Economic liberalism
Which of the following is a major obstacle to economic transition?
lack of government support
environmental degradation
privatization
black markets
Economic transition is the process of moving from ________.
developed to developing economies
centrally planned to free-market economies
developed to emerging economies
free-market to centrally planned economies
Which of the following terms refers to the forced transfer of assets from a company to the government without compensation?
expropriation
nationalism
nationalization
confiscation
________ is the forced transfer of assets from a company to the government with compensation.
Expropriation
Nationalization
Confiscation
Localization
Which of the following is a disadvantage of local requirement laws to foreign companies?
They do not foster local business activity and increase regional and national unemployment.
They make it necessary for the government to resort to expropriation and confiscation.
The companies are forced to bring in raw material and workers from their own countries.
Companies required to hire local personnel might be forced to take on inadequately trained workers.
Global Trading just learned that the government of one country in which it does business has taken over the entire electric utility industry. The government's actions are an example of ________.
confiscation
globalization
expropriation
nationalization
Had the government taken over (with compensation) the assets of Global Trading but not those of any other company, the government's actions would be an example of ________.
expropriation
nationalization
confiscation
communism
Had the government taken over the assets of Global Trading without compensation, and not taken over the assets of any other company, the government's actions would be an example of ________.
expropriation
nationalization
confiscation
communism
________ is the chance that political forces may change a country's business environment in ways that lead investors to lose some or all of the value of their investment or be forced to accept a lower-than-projected rate of return.
Governmental risk
Operating risk
Transaction risk
Political risk
Political risk that affects all firms in a country is referred to as ________.
micropolitical risk
macropolitical risk
inclusive political risk
exclusive political risk
________ has one of the highest levels of macropolitical risk.
Saudi Arabia
Chile
Venezuela
Afghanistan
________ occurs if ownership of a property or assets of a company is transferred to the host government.
Internalization
Nationalization
Deportation
Deracination
Country risk is considered similar to ________.
political risk
commercial risk
currency risk
cross-cultural risk
19. Peter comes from a culture that emphasizes hard work and promotes the entrepreneurial spirit within individuals. While he and his coworkers are encouraged to achieve their personal goals, they are also held responsible for their actions. According to Hofstede's framework, which of the following dimensions does this culture illustrate?
A. Collectivism
B. Individualism
C. High power distance
D. High uncertainty avoidance
