[Solved] SOC 100 Quiz 6
• Question 1
3 out of 3 points
Dependency theory differs from modernization theory by:
Answer
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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:
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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:
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Selected Answer:
greater than in rich nations.
Correct Answer:
greater than in rich nations.
• Question 10
3 out of 3 points
Absolute poverty is:
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Selected Answer:
life threatening.
Correct Answer:
life threatening.
• Question 11
3 out of 3 points
Assimilation refers to the pattern by which:
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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:
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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?
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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:
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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:
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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:
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Selected Answer:
non-WASPs of European ancestry.
Correct Answer:
non-WASPs of European ancestry.
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