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| The emergence of worldwide markets and communications that increasingly ignore national boundaries. |
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| The maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period. |
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| Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries. |
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| What is a World systems analysis? |
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| A view of the global economic system as one divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited. |
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| What is Dependency Theory? |
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| An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain. |
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| What is Multinational corporation? |
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| A commercial organization that is headquartered in one country but does business throughout the world. |
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| The far-reaching process by which periphery nations move from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies. |
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| What is Gross National Product (GNP)? |
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| The value of a nation's goods and products. |
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| What is Modernization Theory? |
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| A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of eople in developing nations. |
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| The area of common culture along the border between Mexico and the US. |
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| The monies that immigrants return to their families of origin. Also called migradollars. |
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| Universal moral rights possessed by all people because they are human. |
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| In viewing the global economic system as divided between nations that control wealth and those from which capital is taken, sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein shows which sociological perspective? |
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| The Conflict perspective. |
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| What are the components of Wallerstein's world systems theory? |
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| The core, The semiperiphery, & the periphery. |
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| Which nation would Wallerstein classify as a core country within the world economic system? |
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| Which nation would Wallerstein classify as on the periphery of the world economic system? |
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| Sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein's method of analysis is the most widely used version of which theory? |
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| What does global factory mean? |
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| Factories throughout the world run by multinational corporations. |
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| Which perspective argues that multinational corporations can actually help the developing nations of the world? |
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| Functionalist perspective. |
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| Which solciological perspective emphasizes that multinational corporations exploit local workers to maximize profits? |
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| The conflict perspective. |
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| According to ranking by revenues, the largest industrial company in the world is what? |
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| In a map of the world drawn to reflect the number of poor people in each country, what area would be the smallest? |
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| About how many of the world's people live on less that two dollars a day? |
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| Which perspective is the modernization theory associated with? |
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| The functionalist perspective. |
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| In one example of social stratification, the Japanese find it difficult to sit, talk or eat together unless the relative rankings of those present have been established. Usually through which practice? |
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| The Japanese minority group known as the Burakumin constitutes a low-status what? |
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| Mobility patterns in industrialized countries are usually associated with what? |
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| Intergenerational Mobility. |
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| Which nation has the largest gap in between its most affluent and least affluent residents? |
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| What types of close relationships does the US and Mexico have? |
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| Cultural, Economic, & Political. |
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| Mexico's large, impoverished majority, most of whom have brown skin and a mixed racial lineage due to intermarriage. |
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| What percent of the labor force do women now constitute in Mexico? |
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| In countries like India, what percentage of the population can obtain the lifestyles portrayed in the media? |
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| What are the long lasting effects of foreign investment by multinationals? |
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| It eventually increases economic inequality within developing nations. |
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| The long reign of the British Empire over much of North America, parts of Africa, and India is an example of what? |
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| Dependency theory can be regarded as an application of which perspective on a global scale? |
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| The Conflict perspective. |
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| The technological disconnect between developing and industrial nations is known as what? |
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| What percentage of adults in the US have a high school education? What about those in Mexico. |
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| 87% in US. 13% in Mexico. |
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| Becoming integrated into the global economy is not possible without what? |
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| Who does Karuna Chanana Ahmed call the most exploited among oppressed people? |
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| What percent of Japan's managers are female? |
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