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Higher Education

Imagining Sociology - Chapter 4

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the Submit my answers button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) environmental quotient
b) ecological footprint
c) environmental footprint
d) ecological quotient
e) ethnographic scale

Question 2:


a) globalization
b) global circles
c) conflict theory
d) mass media
e) world system theory

Question 3:


a) periphery
b) core
c) semi-periphery
d) spatio-temporal
e) systems

Question 4:


a) agricultural crops
b) profit crops
c) large-scale crops
d) cash crops
e) farming crops

Question 5:


a) pre-conditions take-off
b) economic take-off
c) technological maturity
d) the development of mass production
e) the development of mass consumption

Question 6:


a) World systems theory
b) Modernization theory
c) World government theory
d) Enlightenment theory
e) World society theory

Question 7:


a) High-yield farming
b) Specialized farming
c) Cashcropping
d) Post-colonization farming
e) Monocropping

Question 8:


a) commodity chains
b) economic processes
c) world systems markets
d) commodification
e) rationalization

Question 9:


a) a society’s internal features can help or hinder development
b) resources flow from the periphery to the core
c) a society’s external features can help or hinder development
d) global change is the consequence of emerging global institutions and a “world culture” since World War II
e) countries are becoming increasingly similar

Question 10:


a) Gini Coefficient
b) Inequality Gradient
c) Human Development Index
d) Poverty Profile
e) Human Welfare Ratex



True or False Questions

Question 11:


a) True
b) False

Question 12:


a) True
b) False

Question 13:


a) True
b) False

Question 14:


a) True
b) False

Question 15:


a) True
b) False

Question 16:


a) True
b) False

Question 17:


a) True
b) False

Question 18:


a) True
b) False

Question 19:


a) True
b) False

Question 20:


a) True
b) False