Soc 201 Chapter 12
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According to Walt Rostow, nations begin at the ________ stage of development and may eventually reach the stage of ________.
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traditional; high mass consumption
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Although Africa is a poor region of the world, people live almost as long as in the United States. True or False?
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False
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During the twentieth century, the standard of living in high-income countries, where the Industrial Revolution took place, increased dramatically. True or False?
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True
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Modernization theory claims that what we need to explain in human history is not poverty but affluence. True or False?
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True
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Huge businesses that operate in many different countries are called multinational corporations. True or False?
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True
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In low-income nations, inequality between men and women is greater than it is in high-income countries. True or False?
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True
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Compared to poverty in the United States, poverty throughout the world as a whole is more widespread and more severe. True or False?
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True
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Global inequality is partly a problem of technology, and it is also a political issue. True or False?
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True
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Absolute poverty is ________
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life threatening.
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Dependency theory claims that poverty results from natural processes, such as people having too many children. True or False?
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False
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High-income countries are the home of the world's largest corporations as well as the world's top financial markets. True or False?
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True
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High-income nations ________
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make use of factories, big machinery, and advanced technology.
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According to dependency theory, poor countries have become dependent on rich nations because ________
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they sell raw materials to rich nations.
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Some critics claim that modernization theory ________
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ignores how rich nations prevent the economic development of poor nations.
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Which type of slavery consists of employers holding workers by paying them too little to cover their debts?
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Debt bondage
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In low-income nations, population growth is generally very high. True or False?
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True
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Modernization theory claims that rich nations can and do help solve the world's poverty problem. True or False?
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True
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Global income is divided more equally than income within the United States. True or False?
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False
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Even people with income at our country's poverty line live better than a majority of the world's people. True or False?
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True
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Modernization theory focuses on the production of wealth, while dependency theory focuses on the distribution of wealth. True or False?
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True
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In poor nations, poverty is________ than in the United States.
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more widespread and severe
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Although poverty continues, the world has ended the practice of slavery. True or False?
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False
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Modernization theory claims that
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the main causes of poverty involve culture and technology.
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The social theorist identified with modernization theory is
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Max Weber.
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According to modernization theory, the greatest barrier to economic development is ---
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traditional culture.
