WorksheetsLET Review for The Contemporary World — Worksheet Extraction
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
This is the process of expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world-time and across world-space.
Globalization
Americanization
Globalism
Western Imperialism
This refers to the people’s growing consciousness of thickening globality and expands people’s national and local communal frameworks into international and global frameworks.
Globality
Global Imaginary
Globalization
Development
Arjun Appadurai argues that globalization occurs on multiple and intersecting dimensions of integration he calls as what?
Polity
Dynamism
Scapes
Networks
This intersecting dimensions involves the flow of cultures.
Ethnoscape
Technoscape
Financescape
Mediascape
This is process of integration of economies around the world through the movement of goods, services, and capital across borders.
Economic Globalization
Political Globalization
Global Demography
Global Migration
This is the earliest known trading system.
Great Wall of China
Atlantis
Silk Road
Manila Acapulco Galleon Trade
This is considered as the first truly globalized trade.
Great Wall of China
Atlantis
Silk Road
Manila Acapulco Galleon Trade
What are the two financial institutions that are created at the Bretton Woods?
ASEAN and APEC
OPEC and UN
WHO and EU
World Bank and IMF
This is economic system of which it believes that government intervention in markets distorts these markets and causes inflation.
Communism
Neoliberalism
Postmodernism
Anthropocene
Which of these reasons cause the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009, except for one?
Deregulations of the banking industry in the US
Banks have become less discriminating in extending loans to Americans seeking housing loans
Interconnected investment networks consisting of foreign governments, corporations, and individuals.
US imposed a comprehensive regulating mechanism towards its banks.
This is the field of study that addresses the most global inequality, the pending global catastrophe, and others.
Comparative politics
International Relations
Political Sociology
Political Theory
The population of a specific state is called as what?
Territory
Sovereignty
Government
Citizens
This refers to the authority a state enforces within and externally of its territory.
Territory
Sovereignty
Government
Citizens
Which scholar refers to the nation as an imagined community?
Patricio Abinales
Peter Berger
Benedict Anderson
Lisandro Claudio
Which Treaty was signed in 1648 and is the basis of modern nation-states?
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Westphalia
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Manila
Who challenged the Westphalian system and directly opposed the power of the kings, nobility, and even religion in Europe?
Bonaparte
MacArthur
Hitler
Putin
This form of internationalism believed in statehood, international law, republican government, self-determination, and democracy.
Liberal Internationalism
Community Internationalism
Communist Internationalism
Library Internationalism
This internationalism spreads the idea of social democracy.
Liberal Internationalism
Community Internationalism
Communist/Socialist Internationalism
Library Internationalism
These are groups that its memberships are primarily member-states.
Non-governmental Organizations
Intergovernmental Organizations
Multinational Corporations
Transnational Advocacy Networks
What is the primary reason why the United Nations was created?
Prevent wars
Prevent monarchies to exist
Prevent colonialism
Prevent pandemics from happening
This organ of the UN is the main deliberative policymaking and representative organ.
General Assembly
Security Council
Secretariat
International Criminal Court
What is the most powerful organ of the United Nations?
General Assembly
Security Council
Secretariat
International Criminal Court
This label refers to countries mostly from the Southern Hemisphere and involves underdeveloped and developing countries.
Global North
Global South
First World
Third World
What three labels that denotes classification of countries that have emerged during the Cold War?
Global North and Global South
First, Second, Third World
Poor, Middle Income, and Rich Countries
None of the Above
What three considerations countries have to think about in forming regional associations and organization?
Economic Defense
Military Defense
Regional Blocs
All of the above
New regionalism are not necessarily consisted of member-states organizing together but these are entirely different actors bonded together for a single cause. Who are these new actors in the international arena?
NGOs
TNCs
IOs
UN
This challenge of regionalism conceives nationalism to its most conservative form and nature; of which they can seen in the anti-NATO rhetoric of Putin and in the antics of Trump in America.
Militant Nationalism
Economic Crisis
Non-representation in government
Inequality
What issue with the ASEAN is seen as problematic between the Philippines and other member-states of the organization?
China instructs ASEAN member-states to cower to its economic might
There is no unified stance and policy in dealing with China in terms of the South China Sea issue
Countries like Singapore and Malaysia always sides with China within ASEAN
None of the above
On the religion and globalism dichotomy, this value system is concerned with the sacred.
Religion
Globalization
Politics
Economics
This value system places a premium on material wealth.
Religion
Globalization
Politics
Economics
Who is the scholar who believes that the contemporary world is furiously religious.
Manfred Steger
Peter Berger
Lisandro Claudio
Patricio Abinales
What are the three Abrahamic religions?
Islam, Catholicism, Judaism
Islam, Christianity, Judaism
Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism
Islam, Buddhism, Christianity
How do religions utilize globalization?
Broadcasting live masses on Tiktok
Conducting prayer meetings on Google Meet
Livestreaming online ‘lamay’ on Zoom
All of the above
This is the means of conveying something, such as a channel of communication.
Channel
Communication
Media
Marketing
This social reality happens when American values and cultures would overwhelm other world cultures.
Cultural Determination
Cultural Emancipation
Cultural Manicheanism
Cultural Imperialism
Give one negative effect of social media?
Social Media allows us to be entertained.
Social Media allows us to find alternative modes of livelihood.
Social Media allows us to find long time life partners.
Social Media allows us to be embroiled in the world of disinformation.
What kind of people were hired to manipulate public opinion through intimidation and the spreading of fake news?
Fact-checkers
DDS
Trolls
Influencers
These are the preferred sites for the production of services and innovation and have the capacity for global transmission or communication.
Capital Cities
Global Cities
Provincial Cities
Component Cities
This indicator of global city means that these sites houses huge economic opportunities for people, it also includes immense purchasing power of the citizens, and it houses the regional offices of many global corporation.
Economic Power
Centers of Authority
Centers of Culture
Centers of Higher Learning
Why are cities are deemed as sites of economic contradiction?
Cities are sites of opportunities, but also sites of industrialization
Cities are sites of which rich people thrive, yet the same sites where rich people tries to flee
Cities are sites of which richer residents populate, while poor city resident are forced to relocate to far away areas
Cities are sites of which rich urban areas where converted into flashy subdivisions, at the same time, poor people are used to cleaning these houses
These communities feature crop cultivation, and involves farming activities.
Rural communities
Urban communities
Subdivisions
Multi-purpose residences
These communities include urbanized centers and are found in city centers.
Rural communities
Urban communities
Subdivisions
Multi-purpose residences
This scholar claims that unarrested population growth could result to an acute poverty.
Thomas Malthus
Betsy Hartman
Lisandro Claudio
Patricio Abinales
How can large populations drive economic growth?
Large labour force increases economic growth
Large populations provides large domestic market for the economy
Population growth encourages competition which induces technological innovations
None of the above
This form of migration refers to people moving from area to another within one country.
International migration
Internal migration
Economic migration
Provincial migration
How do remittances change their host countries?
Migrant families own cars
Migrant families have new or renovated homes
Migrant families have medium or small enterprises at home
All of the above
What is the newest Philippine institution that is tasked to protect the rights and promote the welfare of overseas Filipino workers?
OWWA
DFA
DMW
FSI
This problem situates men, women, and children into forced labor, economic exploitation, sexual abuse, and work compulsion.
Human trafficking
Illegal immigration
Bogus immigration agencies
Lack of government regulation
Which one is not considered as a devastating impacts on Earth’s marine environments?
Loss of coral reefs
Coastal pollution
Acidification
Closed fishing season
Why will the poor be the most affected in global climate change realities compared to the rich?
The poor are the most vulnerable because they tend to live in more marginal areas.
The poor are the most vulnerable because they tend have access to a narrower range of options and resources.
The poor are the most vulnerable because they have already lost their sense of resilience by virtue of them being incorporated into the modern world.
All of the above.
