Deck 16: The Global Society

Question 1

In peripheral regions of the world system, labor is controlled by which method?

A) the dependency on a wage
B) the development of skilled professions and crafts
C) forced labor
D) periphery

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Central America, the Caribbean, and Africa are all part of the

A) semi-periphery
B) supra-periphery
C) periphery
D) core

Answer 2

C

Question 3

According to Wallerstein's world system analysis, capitalist domination is rooted in

A) class-based struggle.
B) capitalists' control of the state apparatus.
C) the geography of the development of underdevelopment.
D) false consciousness.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Ritzer argues that the operating procedures perfected (but not originated) by __________ have been duplicated in countless arenas from amusement parks and grocery stores to childcare companies, healthcare organizations, religious institutions, educational institutions, and entertainment industries; as a result, those procedures have seeped into the very fabric of everyday life.

A) Politics
B) Globalization
C) the Core
D) McDonald's

Question 5

Ritzer states that Arjun Appadurai offers that the contemporary global order is marked by disjunctures between and within five "scapes" of global cultural flows; which of the following is not one of them?

A) corporscapes
B) ethnoscapes
C) technoscapes
D) financescapes

Question 6

Wallerstein's basic theoretical orientation as outlined by the authors' figure of action and order is considered

A) collective/rational.
B) collective/nonrational.
C) Individual/rational.
D) Individual/nonrational.

Question 7

Which of the following is not a major theory concerning when the process of globalization began?

A) Globalization has evolved since the beginning of human history.
B) Globalization began with the development of capitalism.
C) Globalization began during the time of ancient Egypt.
D) Globalization began in the second half of the 20^th century.

Question 8

Which of Giddens's major concepts sits dead-center within the authors' figure of theoretical orientation pertaining to order and action?

A) practical consciousness
B) agency
C) duality of structure
D) resources

Question 9

Immanuel Wallerstein's research is indebted to this historian's "long-term" based work and method.

A) Karl Marx
B) Joseph Schumpeter
C) W.E.B. Du Bois
D) Fernand Braudel

Question 10

Structures are bound by the time and space of a particular interaction, unlike Giddens's concept of

A) rules.
B) Social systems.
C) cognition.
D) discursive consciousness.

Question 11

In Sklair formulation, the transnational capitalist class includes the following three out of four fractions, except:

A) individual actors (human agency);
B) globalizing state and inter-state bureaucrats and politicians (state fraction);
C) globalizing professionals (technical fraction); and
D) merchants and media (consumerist fraction).

Question 12

Wallerstein's belief that all social systems are formed, maintained, and destroyed through conflict can be traced most readily to the work of

A) Karl Marx.
B) Joseph Schumpeter.
C) Talcott Parsons.
D) Emile Durkheim.

Question 13

Two important differences between Marx's analysis and Wallerstein's is that

A) Wallerstein envisions the birth of a super-proletariat and micro-bourgeoisie.
B) Wallerstein does not envision a utopian final stage and goes beyond class to race.
C) Wallerstein disagrees with Marx's notions alienation and anomie.
D) Wallerstein deconstructs surplus value while reinforcing class.

Question 14

Western cultural imperialism, McDonaldization, and coca-colonization are all consequences of globalization which would be categorized as

A) omogeneous and weak.
B) homogeneous and self-sustaining.
C) heterogeneous and weak.
D) heterogeneous and strong.

Question 15

Which of the following is not one of the factors Wallerstein attributes to the origin of the modern world-capitalist system?

A) expansion due to exploration and colonization
B) development of different methods of labor control
C) development of international currency markets
D) development of strong states dictating economic trade

Question 16

According to Sklair, the 1980s witnessed an unprecedented increase in the scale and scope of the electronic media of communication, as well as genuine innovations in their nature. He argues "the fact that this is happening within and as a result of ___________________indicates that a qualitatively new relationship between culture and ideology is being forged.

A) rational choice
B) capitalist globalization
C) progressive tactics
D) communist systems

Question 17

Which of the following is not one of Giddens's modes of consciousness?

A) anomic consciousness.
B) discursive consciousness.
C) practical consciousness.
D) unconscious motives.

Question 18

Although Hollywood actually produces only a minority of the worldwide total of films and television programmes, its control over marketing and distribution gives it an enormous input onto ________screens.

A) nonglobalized
B) neutrally sound
C) worldwide
D) Third World

Question 19

This area controls a vast majority of the world's wealth while producing a highly skilled workforce that is controlled through wage payment.

A) core
B) periphery
C) supra-periphery
D) semi-periphery

Question 20

Giddens's concept, the duality of structure, articulates that social structures are

A) dually imposed upon unique individuals.
B) both the medium and the outcome.
C) found both in media and "real life."
D) doubly impossible to penetrate via language.

Question 21

Giddens's conceptions of agency and structure parallel functionalist interpretations.

Question 22

Define globalization and list some of the theoretical discourses surrounding it.

Question 23

Choose one of Appadurai's five dimensions of global cultural flows, according to Ritzer and explain its significance on globalization as a whole.

Question 24

Although Hollywood actually produces only a minority of the worldwide total of films and television programmes, its control over marketing and distribution gives it an enormous input onto Third World screens.

Question 25

Rising fundamentalism and ethnic conflicts reflect a heterogeneous strong consequence of globalization.

Question 26

Immanuel Wallerstein's contribution to the study of globalization included his five dimensions of global cultural flows.

Question 27

Ritzer's Mcdonaldization draws inspiration from Weber's iron cage.

Question 28

According to the "McDonaldization of society" the following are taking place: Efficiency, Calculability, Predictability, Control, Rationality

Question 29

Most theorists agree on when the process of globalization began.

Question 30

Structures are bound by the time and space of a particular interaction, unlike Giddens's concept of rules.

Question 31

Although Hollywood actually produces only a minority of the worldwide total of films and television programmes, its control over marketing and distribution gives it an enormous input onto First World screens.

Question 32

Briefly explain the role Joseph Schumpeter and Karl Polanyi's work had on Wallerstein's theories.

Question 33

Wallerstein saw capitalism as an economic system whose reign will eventually end.

Question 34

Choose one of the two broad positions on the consequences of globalization and explain why you feel this consequence is more likely to occur. Use an existing scholar's concept from the position or one of your own to support your stance.

Question 35

Duality of structure means that social structures are both the "medium and outcome" of the practices they empower

Question 36

According to the "McDonaldization of society" the following are taking place:

A) Efficiency, Calculability, Predictability, Control, Irrationality of rationality
B) Inefficiency, Calculability, Predictability, Control, Irrationality of rationality
C) Efficiency, Calculability, Control, rationality
D) Predictability, Control, Irrationality of rationality

Question 37

Ritzer argues that the operating procedures perfected (but not originated) by McDonald's have been duplicated in countless arenas from amusement parks and grocery stores to childcare companies, healthcare organizations, religious institutions, educational institutions, and entertainment industries; as a result, those procedures have seeped into the very fabric of
everyday life.

Question 38

In Sklair's formulation, the transnational capitalist class includes the following four fractions:
TNC executives and their local affiliates (corporate fraction); globalizing state and inter-state bureaucrats and politicians (state fraction); globalizing professionals (technical fraction); and merchants and media (consumerist fraction).

Question 39

According to Sklair, the 1980s witnessed an unprecedented increase in the scale and scope of the electronic media of communication, as well as genuine innovations in their nature. He argues "the fact that this is happening within and as a result of capitalist globalization indicates that a qualitatively new relationship between culture and ideology is being forged.

Question 40

There have been only two types of world-systems in existence: world-armies and world-governments.

Question 41

Discuss strong/weak versions of increasingly homogenous/heterogeneous world. Choose a particular one of these perspectives and defend why you feel it most accurately depicts the result of globalization.

Question 42

Define Wallerstein's world-empires and world-economies and discuss how the concept of the state apparatus connects to them.

Question 43

Define Giddens's modes of consciousness and how they connect to the concept of agency.

Question 44

Explain the role a state apparatus plays within the modern world-capitalist system.

Question 45

Explain Giddens's duality of structure.

Question 46

Discuss Giddens's notions of structure and social system and compare/contrast it to the work of structuralism. Specifically discuss the work of functional structuralism versus that of de Saussure.

Question 47

Explain globalization.

Question 48

Define Giddens's duality of structure. Explain how concepts such as rules, resources, structure and agency play into this definition.

Question 49

Discuss Sklair's Economy, Polity, Culture-Ideology.

Question 50

Choose one of Wallerstein's hierarchical structural positions - define it and provide a real world example of it and what they can do to change their status (if anything).

Question 51

Compare Wallerstein's world systems analysis to Ritzer's interpretation of Appadurai's five dimensions of global flows within the concept of globalization.