Social Inequality in a Global Age 4th Edition By Scott R. Sernau – Test Bank

Social Inequality in a Global Age 4th Edition By Scott R. Sernau – Test Bank

Social Inequality in a Global Age, Fourth Edition

CHAPTER 3

The Global Divide: Inequality across Societies

TEST ITEMS

Part I. Multiple Choice Questions

1.  Athletic shoes are now often made in

a. France and Italy

b. offshore plants in the Caribbean

c. export processing zones in Asia  *

d. South Bend, Indiana

2.  Large amounts of the world’s lightweight consumer goods are made in a string of cities along

a. the U.S. Mississippi River

b. China’s Pearl River   *

c. Europe’s Rhine River

d. the upper Nile River

3.  Global export markets led to the rapid economic growth of

a. Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala

b. Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan  *

c. Egypt, Sudan, Libya, and Tunisia

d. Albania, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovakia

4.  Income inequality between counties has declined slightly, due almost entirely to the rapid economic growth in

a. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait

b. the European Union

c. China and India  *

d. Mexico and Brazil

5. The most unequal advanced industrial country in the world is

a. Japan

b. Great Britain

c. the United States  *

d. Italy

6. Modernization theorists maintained that the people of developing nations needed

a. an achievement orientation   *

b. greater social consciousness

c. a revolutionary ideology

d. greater ethnic pride

7. World systems and dependency theorists have maintained that a major reason poor nations stay poor is

a. lack of natural resources

b. lack of motivation to change

c. neocolonialism   *   

d. unwillingness to break with tradition      

8. Dependency theorists contend that poor nations suffer from

a. economic backwardness

b. a lack of Western technology

c. isolation from the world economy

d. economic distortions   *