SOC100 4 Questions with Detailed Verified
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A sociologist who focuses on the way that multinational
corporations headquartered in core nations exploit the local
workers in their peripheral nation factories is using a
__________________ perspective to understand the global
economy.
a
functional
b
conflict theory
c
feminist
d
symbolic interactionist
✓✓ B
A __________________ perspective theorist might find it
particularly noteworthy that wealthy corporations improve the
quality of life in peripheral nations by providing workers with
jobs, pumping money into the local economy, and improving
transportation infrastructure.
a
functional
b
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conflict
c
feminist
d
symbolic interactionist
✓✓ A
A sociologist working from a symbolic interaction perspective
would:
a
study how inequality is created and reproduced
b
study how corporations can improve the lives of their low-
income workers
c
try to understand how companies provide an advantage to high-
income nations compared to low-income nations
d
want to interview women working in factories to understand
how they manage the expectations of their supervisors, make
ends meet, and support their households on a day-to-day basis
✓✓ D
France might be classified as which kind of nation?
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a
Global
b
Core
c
Semi-peripheral
d
Peripheral
✓✓ B
Slavery in the pre-Civil War U.S. South most closely resembled
a
chattel slavery
b
debt bondage
c
relative poverty
d
peonage
✓✓ A
Maya is a twelve-year-old girl living in Thailand. She is
homeless, and often does not know where she will sleep or