SOC 100 Quiz 6

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[Solved] SOC 100 Quiz 6 • Question 1 3 out of 3 points Dependency theory differs from modernization theory by: Answer ... Selected Answer: explaining global inequality in terms of the exploitation of poor countries by rich countries. Correct Answer: explaining global inequality in terms of the exploitation of poor countries by rich countries. • Question 2 0 out of 3 points What concept refers to a global economy in which multinational corporations exploit people in low-income nations? Answer Selected Answer: colonialism Correct Answer: neocolonialism • Question 3 3 out of 3 points For the world as a whole, about how many people suffer from chronic hunger that leaves them less able to work and places them at high risk of disease? Answer Selected Answer: 1 billion Correct Answer: 1 billion • Question 4 3 out of 3 points From a global perspective, economic productivity is lowest in precisely the regions where: Answer Selected Answer: population growth is highest. Correct Answer: population growth is highest. • Question 5 3 out of 3 points In middle-income nations, average personal income is in the range of: Answer Selected Answer: $2,500 and $10,000. Correct Answer: $2,500 and $10,000. • Question 6 3 out of 3 points In poor nations, poverty is_____ than in the United States. Answer Selected Answer: more widespread and severe Correct Answer: more widespread and severe • Question 7 3 out of 3 points The wealthiest 20 percent of the global population receives about what percentage of all global income? Answer Selected Answer: 74 percent Correct Answer: 74 percent • Question 8 3 out of 3 points Of the roughly 1 billion people in the world who are living in absolute poverty, what percentage are women? Answer Selected Answer: 70 percent Correct Answer: 70 percent • Question 9 3 out of 3 points In poor countries, the disadvantages women face relative to men are: Answer Selected Answer: greater than in rich nations. Correct Answer: greater than in rich nations. • Question 10 3 out of 3 points Absolute poverty is: Answer Selected Answer: life threatening. Correct Answer: life threatening. • Question 11 3 out of 3 points Assimilation refers to the pattern by which: Answer Selected Answer: minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant category. Correct Answer: minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant category. • Question 12 3 out of 3 points Significant immigration of Asian Americans to the United States was sparked by: Answer Selected Answer: the California Gold Rush in 1849. Correct Answer: the California Gold Rush in 1849. • Question 13 3 out of 3 points Four states currently have a "minority majority." Which are they? Answer Selected Answer: Texas, New Mexico, California, and Hawaii Correct Answer: Texas, New Mexico, California, and Hawaii • Question 14 3 out of 3 points Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton documented which of the following patterns in U.S. inner cities? Answer Selected Answer: hypersegregation Correct Answer: hypersegregation • Question 15 3 out of 3 points Institutional prejudice and discrimination refers to the fact that: Answer Selected Answer: bias is built into the operation of social institutions. Correct Answer: bias is built into the operation of social institutions. • Question 16 3 out of 3 points Human beings are all: Answer Selected Answer: members of a single biological species. Correct Answer: members of a single biological species. • Question 17 0 out of 3 points Typically, people who live in _____ perceive fewer racial categories than people who live in _____. Answer Selected Answer: Brazil; the United States Correct Answer: the United States; Brazil • Question 18 3 out of 3 points Which of the following concepts refers to biological reproduction by people of different racial categories? Answer Selected Answer: miscegenation Correct Answer: miscegenation • Question 19 3 out of 3 points The ancestors of which of the following first settled the lands of the Western Hemisphere? Answer Selected Answer: Native Americans Correct Answer: Native Americans • Question 20 3 out of 3 points The concept "white ethnics" refers to: Answer Selected Answer: non-WASPs of European ancestry. Correct Answer: non-WASPs of European ancestry. [Show More]

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