A region that supplies basic resources and labor power to more advanced states is a:
a. developed nation
b. core nation
c. peripheral area
d. semiperipheral area
C
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According to functionalists, poverty exists because
a. the poor are largely unmotivated to work. b. it contributes in some way to the stability of an existing social order. c. the poor lack the drive to do better. d. somebody has to be on the bottom.
Professor Root was studying the arrest rates for drunken driving in urban and rural areas of Ohio. It was found that the arrest rate was higher in the rural areas. Professor Root concluded that people who live in rural areas are more likely to drive while intoxicated than are people who live in urban areas. Root's conclusion
a. illustrates the ecological fallacy. b. illustrates the individualistic fallacy. c. illustrates good deductive reasoning. d. illustrates the importance of trend studies. e. illustrates the role of ethics in social research
Social movements that seek partial changes in some institutions and values, usually on behalf of some segments of society rather than all, are called:
a. conservative movements b. reactionary movements c. reformist movements d. revolutionary movements
Karl Marx's theory is often criticized ______.
a. because communism did not come about as he predicted b. because the emancipatory subject was over-emphasized c. for focusing too much on gender d. for ignoring production over consumption