Society The Basics 14th Edition Macionis – Test Bank

Society The Basics 14th Edition Macionis – Test Bank

In this revision of the test bank, I have updated all of the questions to reflect changes in Society: The Basics, 14^th edition. In this revision, the questions are tagged according to six levels of learning that move from lower-level to higher-level cognitive reasoning. The six levels are:

REMEMBER: a question involving recall of key terms or factual material

UNDERSTAND: a question testing comprehension of more complex ideas

APPLY: a question applying sociological knowledge to some new situation

ANALYZE: a question requiring identifying elements of an argument and their interrelationship

The 105 questions in this chapter’s test bank are divided into four types of questions. True/False questions are the least demanding. As the table below shows, all of these questions fall within the two lowest levels of cognitive reasoning (“Remember” and “Understand”). Multiple-choice questions also fall within the three lowest levels of cognitive reasoning (adding some “Apply” questions). Short answer questions span a broader range of skills (from “Understand” to “Evaluate”). Finally, essay questions are the most demanding, falling within the four highest levels of cognitive reasoning (“Apply,” “Analyze,” “Evaluate,” and “Create”).

Types of Questions

Easy to Difficult Level of Difficulty

True/False

Mult Choice

Short Answer

Essay

Total Qs

Remember

30 (81%)

36 (74%)

0

0

66

Understand

7 (19%)

10 (20%)

5 (46%)

0

22

Apply

0

3 (6%)

2 (18%)

1 (12.5%)

6

Analyze

0

0

4 (36%)

7 (87.5%)

11

37

49

11

8

105

CHAPTER 9: GLOBAL STRATIFICATION

TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS

TB_Q9.1.1

In 2015, any one of the world’s three richest individuals had wealth that exceeded the total economic output of 100 of the world’s countries.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.1: Describe the division of the world into high-, middle-, and low-income countries

Topic: Global Stratification: An Overview

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.1.2. Global income is divided more equally than income within the United States.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 9.1: Describe the division of the world into high-, middle-, and low-income countries

Topic: Global Stratification: An Overview

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q9.1.3

Even people with income at our country’s poverty line live better than a majority of the world’s people.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.1: Describe the division of the world into high-, middle-, and low-income countries

Topic: Global Stratification: An Overview

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.1.4

The richest 20 percent of the world’s people receive 50 percent of the entire world’s income.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 9.1: Describe the division of the world into high-, middle-, and low-income countries

Topic: Global Stratification: An Overview

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.1.5

The poorest 20 percent of the world’s people live on just 2 percent of the world’s income.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.1: Describe the division of the world into high-, middle-, and low-income countries

Topic: Global Stratification: An Overview

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.1.6

Japan and Australia are examples of middle-income nations.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 9.1: Describe the division of the world into high-, middle-, and low-income countries

Topic: Global Stratification: An Overview

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.1.7

High-income countries are the home of the world’s largest corporations as well as the world’s top financial markets.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.1: Describe the division of the world into high-, middle-, and low-income countries

Topic: Global Stratification: An Overview

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.1.8

The text defines middle-income nations as having per capita income between $2,500 and $12,000 per year.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.1: Describe the division of the world into high-, middle-, and low-income countries

Topic: Global Stratification: An Overview

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.1.9

The former Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe are low-income countries.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 9.1: Describe the division of the world into high-, middle-, and low-income countries

Topic: Global Stratification: An Overview

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.1.10

Low-income countries are home to more than half of the world’s people.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 9.1: Describe the division of the world into high-, middle-, and low-income countries

Topic: Global Stratification: An Overview

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.1.11

In low-income nations, the majority of the people live in villages and small towns where farming is the most common way to make a living.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.1: Describe the division of the world into high-, middle-, and low-income countries

Topic: Global Stratification: An Overview

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.2.12

For every dollar earned by someone in a low-income nation, a person in a high-income nation earns about four dollars.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 9.2: Discuss patterns and explanations of poverty around the world

Topic: Global Wealth and Poverty

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.2.13

Compared to poverty in the United States, poverty throughout the world as a whole is more widespread and more severe.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.2: Discuss patterns and explanations of poverty around the world

Topic: Global Wealth and Poverty

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.2.14

A recent United Nations report shows that, in general, high-income nations have a higher quality of life than low-income nations.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.2: Discuss patterns and explanations of poverty around the world

Topic: Global Wealth and Poverty

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q9.2.15

Although Africa is a poor region of the world, people live almost as long as in the United States.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 9.2: Discuss patterns and explanations of poverty around the world

Topic: Global Wealth and Poverty

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q9.2.16

Typically, people in low-income countries do more physical labor, but they consume fewer calories than people in rich nations.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.2: Discuss patterns and explanations of poverty around the world

Topic: Global Wealth and Poverty

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.2.17

The region in the world with the greatest number of poor “street children” is Latin America.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.2: Discuss patterns and explanations of poverty around the world

Topic: Global Wealth and Poverty

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.2.18

In low-income nations, inequality between men and women is greater than it is in high-income countries.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.2: Discuss patterns and explanations of poverty around the world

Topic: Global Wealth and Poverty

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.2.19

Although poverty continues, the world has ended the practice of slavery.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 9.2: Discuss patterns and explanations of poverty around the world

Topic: Global Wealth and Poverty

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.2.20

Some forms of marriage found in the world today amount to slavery.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.2: Discuss patterns and explanations of poverty around the world

Topic: Global Wealth and Poverty

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.2.21

In low-income nations, population growth is generally very high.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.2: Discuss patterns and explanations of poverty around the world

Topic: Global Wealth and Poverty

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.2.22

Colonialism and neocolonialism both refer to a situation where one country politically rules or controls another country.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 9.2: Discuss patterns and explanations of poverty around the world

Topic: Global Wealth and Poverty

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q9.2.23

Huge businesses that operate in many different countries are called multinational corporations.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.2: Discuss patterns and explanations of poverty around the world

Topic: Global Wealth and Poverty

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.3.24

Modernization theory was created as a criticism of U.S. foreign policy.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 9.3: Apply sociological theories to the topic of global inequality

Topic: Theories of Global Stratification

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q9.3.25

Modernization theory claims that what we need to explain in human history is not poverty but affluence.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.3: Apply sociological theories to the topic of global inequality

Topic: Theories of Global Stratification

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.3.26

During the twentieth century, the standard of living in high-income countries, where the Industrial Revolution took place, increased dramatically.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.3: Apply sociological theories to the topic of global inequality

Topic: Theories of Global Stratification

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.3.27

In Walt Rostow’s model of economic development, the first stage before the modernization process begins is called “take-off stage.”

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 9.3: Apply sociological theories to the topic of global inequality

Topic: Theories of Global Stratification

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.3.28

Modernization theory claims that rich nations can and do help solve the world’s poverty problem.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.3: Apply sociological theories to the topic of global inequality

Topic: Theories of Global Stratification

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.3.29

Dependency theory claims that the economic positions of the rich and poor nations of the globe are linked.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.3: Apply sociological theories to the topic of global inequality

Topic: Theories of Global Stratification

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q9.3.30

Dependency theory claims that the widespread poverty in low-income countries has little to do with great affluence in high-income countries.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 9.3: Apply sociological theories to the topic of global inequality

Topic: Theories of Global Stratification

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.3.31

Dependency theory states that high-income nations have narrow, export-oriented economies.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 9.3: Apply sociological theories to the topic of global inequality

Topic: Theories of Global Stratification

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.3.32

Rich nations are now in debt to low-income nations because of the amount of raw material that they buy.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 9.3: Apply sociological theories to the topic of global inequality

Topic: Theories of Global Stratification

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.3.33

Modernization theory focuses on the production of wealth, while dependency theory focuses on the distribution of wealth.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.3: Apply sociological theories to the topic of global inequality

Topic: Theories of Global Stratification

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q9.3.34

Dependency theory claims that poverty results from natural processes, such as people having too many children.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 9.3: Apply sociological theories to the topic of global inequality

Topic: Theories of Global Stratification

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.3.35

Critics say that dependency theory incorrectly treats wealth as a zero-sum, ignoring how the world has become much richer over time.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.3: Apply sociological theories to the topic of global inequality

Topic: Theories of Global Stratification

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q9.3.36

Global inequality is partly a problem of technology, and it is also a political issue.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 9.3: Apply sociological theories to the topic of global inequality

Topic: Theories of Global Stratification

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts