front 1 Borderlands | back 1 The area of common culture along the border between Mexico and the United States. |
front 2 Colonialism | back 2 The maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural domination over a people by a foreign power for an extended period. |
front 3 Corporate Welfare | back 3 Tax breaks, bailouts, direct payments, and grants that the government gives to corporations. |
front 4 Dependency Theory | back 4 An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gains. |
front 5 Globalization | back 5 The worldwide integration of government policies, cultures, social movements, and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas. |
front 6 Modernization | back 6 The far-reaching process through which periphery nations move from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies. |
front 7 Modernization Theory | back 7 A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in developing nations. |
front 8 Multinational Corporation | back 8 A commercial organization that is head-quartered in one country but does business throughout the world. |
front 9 Neocolonialism | back 9 Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries. |
front 10 Remittances | back 10 The monies that immigrants return to their families of origin. |
front 11 World System Analysis | back 11 The global economy as an interdependent system of economically and politically unequal nations. |
front 12 The maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural domination over a people by a foreign power for an extended period is referred to as: | back 12 colonialism |
front 13 In viewing the global economic system as divided between nations that control wealth and those that are controlled and exploited, sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein draws on the: | back 13 conflict perspective |
front 14 Which of the following nations would Immanuel Wallerstein classify as a core country within the world economic system: | back 14 Germany |
front 15 Which sociological perspective argues that multinational corporations can actually help the developing nations of the world: | back 15 the functionalist perspective |
front 16 Which of the following terms is used by contemporary social scientist to describe the far-reaching process by which peripheral nations move from traditional or less developed societies: | back 16 modernization |
front 17 In at least 22 nations around the world, the most affluent 10 percent receives at least what percentage of all income: | back 17 40 percent |
front 18 Karuna Chanana Ahmed, an anthropologist from India who has studied developing nations, calls which group the most exploited of oppressed people: | back 18 women |
front 19 Which of the following terms is used to refer to Mexico's large, impoverished majority, most of whom have brown skin and a mixed racial lineage due to intermarriage: | back 19 mestizo |
front 20 In Mexico, women now constitute what percentage of the labor force: | back 20 48 percent |
front 21 Which of the following terms refers to the foreign-owned factories established just across the border in Mexico, where the companies that own them don't have to pay taxes or provide insurance or benefits for their workers: | back 21 maquiladoras |
front 22 Colonial domination established patterns of economic exploitation leading to former colonies remaining dependent on more industrialized nations. Such continuing dependence and foreign domination are referred to as: | back 22 neocolonialism |
front 23 According to Immanuel Wallerstein's analysis, the United States is at the *insert word here* while neighboring Mexico is on the semi periphery of the world economic system. | back 23 core |
front 24 Wallerstein's world systems analysis is the most widely used version of *insert word here* theory. | back 24 dependency |
front 25 These factories are factories found throughout the developing world that are run by multinational corporations. | back 25 global |
front 26 As *insert word here* industries become a more important part of the international marketplace, many companies have concluded that the low costs of overseas operations more than offset the expense of transmitting information around the world. | back 26 service |
front 27 Viewed from a *insert word here* perspective, the combination of skilled technology and management provided by multinationals and the relatively cheap labor available in developing nations is ideal for a global enterprise | back 27 functionalist |
front 28 In 2000 the United Nations launched the *insert word here* ; its objective is to eliminate extreme poverty worldwide by the year 2015. | back 28 Millennium Project |
front 29 Modernization theory reflects the *insert word here* perspective. | back 29 functionalist |
front 30 At the top of the color hierarchy in Mexico are the *insert word here*, the 10 percent of the population who are typically White, well-educated members of the business and intellectual elites, and who have familial roots in Spain. | back 30 criollos |
front 31 The term refers to the area of a common culture along the border between Mexico and the United States. | back 31 borderlands |