SOC Chapter 12
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One of the countries listed below is NOT a high-income nation. Which one is it?
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Vietnam
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In middle-income nations, average personal income is in the range of:
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$2,500 and $10,000
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If you wanted to visit the world's low-income nations, where would you travel?
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Africa and Asia
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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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A majority of the world's people live in:
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middle-income nations.
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In the world's lowest-income nations, half of all children born die by the age of:
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ten
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Absolute poverty is:
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life threatening.
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Which world region contains the largest percentage of the world's street children?
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Latin America
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Which type of slavery refers to one person owning another?
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chattel slavery
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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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The concept of \"colonialism\" refers to the process by which:
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some nations enrich themselves through political and economic control of others.
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The concept of \"neocolonialism\" refers to the process by which:
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multinational corporations dominate the economy of a poor country
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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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Which of the following social theorists is identified with modernization theory?
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Max Weber
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Dependency theory differs from modernization theory by:
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explaining global inequality in terms of the exploitation of poor countries by rich countries.
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A social theorist who contributed to the development of dependency theory by tracing the growth of the capitalist world economy is:
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Immanuel Wallerstein
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Which theoretical approach claims that rich nations of the world are \"overdeveloped\" while poor nations are \"underdeveloped\"?
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dependency theory
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There is less income inequality between nations than there is within the United States.
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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.
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True
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The poorest 20 percent of the world's people live on just 2 percent of the world's income.
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True
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Japan and Australia are examples of middle-income nations.
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False
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The former Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe are low-income countries.
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False
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In low-income nations, most people live in villages and small towns where farming is the most common way to make a living.
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True
