Deck 16: Global Changes and the Role of Anthropology

Question 1

The first circumnavigation of the globe was achieved by which explorer?

A) Marco Polo
B) Christopher Columbus
C) Ferdinand Magellan
D) Francisco Pizarro

Answer 1

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 2

Structural power:

A) has decreasing significance in the new global order
B) diverts attention from the relationship between the new global order and political institutions
C) fails to capture the complex new cultural formation in the world
D) applies to regional political organizations

Answer 2

applies to regional political organizations

Question 3

How many countries are members of the European Union?

A) 9
B) 31
C) 14
D) 27

Answer 3

27

Question 4

Globalization involves all of the following except:

A) restructured social field of force
B) controlled profit growth
C) development of new commercial markets
D) struggle for scarce natural resources

Question 5

How many member states are there in the United Nations?

A) 67
B) 167
C) 273
D) 193

Question 6

Which country spends the most overall on military hardware?

A) Saudi Arabia
B) Europe
C) Iran
D) United States

Question 7

The Pashtun, Turkmen, and Hazara are all ethnic groups in:

A) Turkey
B) Afghanistan
C) Liberia
D) France

Question 8

Power that organizes and orchestrates the systemic interaction within and among societies is an example of:

A) structural power
B) hard power
C) soft power
D) sanctions

Question 9

The recent rise in global urbanization has been fueled mainly by:

A) rise of state societies
B) mining
C) mechanized farming
D) rural-to-urban migrations

Question 10

Eighty percent of the human population subsists on what percentage of all goods and services in the world?

A) 17%
B) 9%
C) 23%
D) 3%

Question 11

Which of the following is a public policy for managing a society's multiple ethnicities in a manner of respect and tolerance?

A) ethnoculturalism
B) diversity
C) pluralism
D) multiculturalism

Question 12

Which country has the most hard power at their disposal?

A) Japan
B) England
C) United States
D) China

Question 13

The globalization process has:

A) empowered people to succeed
B) defined people and whole groups as inferior
C) argued against self-determination
D) done all of the things listed here

Question 14

The news media is an example of:

A) global order
B) soft power
C) hard power
D) structural power

Question 15

The trend in political units over the past 5,000 years has routinely included all of the following except:

A) tendency to become more all-encompassing
B) tendency to become fewer in number
C) tendency to become more representative
D) tendency to become larger

Question 16

Telecommunication, technological development, and industrialization are some of the processes associated with:

A) urbanization
B) modernization
C) globalization
D) nationalization

Question 17

Two or more neighboring ethnic groups maintaining a loose political union while retaining their own cultural identities is referred to as a:

A) pluralistic society
B) ethnocentric society
C) international society
D) multicultural society

Question 18

Which of the following is not a subprocess of modernization?

A) industrialization
B) agricultural development
C) urbanization
D) politicization

Question 19

Throughout time, all large states have a tendency to:

A) break up
B) foster greater unity
C) become more stable
D) to experience a rise in prosperity

Question 20

In almost all parts of the world, nation-building:

A) results in the destruction of multi-ethnic societies
B) results in the preservation of multi-ethnic societies
C) results in the increase development of ethnic societies
D) has no effect on multi-ethnic societies

Question 21

What threats do megacorporations pose to national governments?

A) megacorporations have their own governments and do not work in national countries
B) it is challenging for governments to find the sufficient workers for the corporations
C) global corporations prefer to make all foreign policy decisions without laws
D) it is difficult for governments to get information from them for informed policy decisions

Question 22

The collapse of local markets due to subsidized foreign imports is an example of:

A) hard power
B) structural violence
C) structural coercion
D) external coercion

Question 23

Physical and psychological harm caused by economic systems is:

A) sanctionary violence
B) cultural violence
C) structural violence
D) structural coercion

Question 24

Body image is:

A) pedagogical
B) cultural
C) biological
D) institutional

Question 25

What is the current number of people worldwide who are considered to be overweight?

A) 347 million
B) 1.1 billion
C) 1.9 billion
D) 2.3 billion

Question 26

What two countries today each have more than one billion people?

A) China/Russia
B) China/India
C) India/Russia
D) Russia/Thailand

Question 27

Which of the following is currently the largest mega-corporation?

A) McDonald's
B) General Electric
C) Wal-Mart
D) Hyundai

Question 28

Today, the top 100 companies employ what percentage of the world's workforce?

A) 29%
B) 3%
C) 7%
D) 1%

Question 29

Among what indigenous population have scientists found the highest levels of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls)?

A) Maya
B) Yanomamo
C) Inuit
D) Pashto

Question 30

Who faces risks in a global economy?

A) children
B) women
C) men
D) everyone

Question 31

In general, which demographic group is most favored by multinational corporations?

A) adolescents
B) men
C) children
D) women

Question 32

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations in:

A) 1948
B) 1968
C) l998
D) 1938

Question 33

The World Health Organization classifies which of the following as a worldwide epidemic?

A) obesity
B) skin cancer
C) shingles
D) emphysema

Question 34

Between 1950 and 2000 the world population reached a high of:

A) 16 billion
B) 6 billion
C) 2 billion
D) 8 billion

Question 35

Approximately how many children die yearly due to hunger?

A) 5 million
B) 1 billion
C) 2 million
D) 6 million

Question 36

What is a "global mediascape"?

A) global flow of information
B) dominance of structural power through the media
C) dominance of one country over another in global media
D) existence of a "third way" which is the media empire

Question 37

Today, the top 100 companies control what percentage of the world's total assets?

A) 33%
B) 21%
C) 50%
D) 73%

Question 38

The global media environment today:

A) is primarily digital-electronic
B) is decreasingly important
C) is dominated by developing countries
D) wields hard power only

Question 39

During the 20ᵗʰ century 44 million people have died due to:

A) smog
B) typhoid fever
C) earthquakes
D) human-made famine

Question 40

The poorest 20% of the world's population subsists on what percentage of all goods and services in the world?

A) 3.2%
B) 0.7%
C) 1.9%
D) 1.3%

Question 41

Multiculturalism is more common today than cultural pluralism.

Question 42

Nearly all state debt in Africa comes from the cost of weapons purchased to fight their own citizens.

Question 43

Hard power is coercive.

Question 44

The movement of manufacturing and hazardous waste disposal to developing countries is caused by the availability of all of the following except:

A) higher safety standards in developing countries
B) cheaper labor in developing countries
C) larger profits for the corporation in developing countries
D) lower production costs

Question 45

There is a global trend of economic egalitarianism.

Question 46

Globalization has expanded and intensified structural violence.

Question 47

Approximately how many people are currently living outside their national borders as refugees or are internally displaced?

A) 14 million
B) 9 million
C) 12 million
D) 45 million

Question 48

Migration has contributed to all of the following except:

A) diffusion of ideas
B) development
C) culture change
D) decreases in ethnocentrism

Question 49

Which continent consumes the least commercial energy per capita?

A) Africa
B) Asia
C) North America
D) South America

Question 50

In the United Nations 1966 Covenant on Human Rights, it states that ethnic groups within nation-states:

A) are encouraged to assert their independence and right of self-determination
B) should use technological advance to further develop their cultures
C) need to assimilate to the dominant cultures
D) have group rights

Question 51

The global leaders in military spending in descending order are the United States, Japan, Britain, and France.

Question 52

The efficiency of the atmosphere in retaining heat is increasing.

Question 53

Which of the following is not an article in the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples?

A) overthrow current national governments
B) rights of self-determination
C) recognition of indigenous land titles
D) respect for indigenous cultural heritages

Question 54

Canadian Inuit face health problems related to high levels of what contaminant in sea mammals?

A) methane
B) mercurial triphenyls
C) polychlorinated biphenyls
D) diestrogen polychromate

Question 55

The reunification of Germany occurred in 1990.

Question 56

The movement within a country from rural to urban areas is called:

A) internal emigration
B) emigration
C) internal migration
D) external migration

Question 57

Pluralistic societies tend to be more stable over time.

Question 58

Israel, Britain, and India are all considered to be nuclear states.

Question 59

Approximately how many of the world's population now lives outside their countries of birth as migrants?

A) 17 million
B) 275 million
C) 200 million
D) 25 million

Question 60

What is the relationship between globalization and local culture?

A) larger nation-states are less affected by global forces than small ones
B) cultures respond differently to the processes of globalization
C) globalization tends to affect poorer nations more than wealthy ones
D) cultures all respond violently to global initiatives and integration

Question 61

Global warming causes an increased incidence of respiratory diseases due to additional _______________ caused by warmer temperatures.

Question 62

_______________ is the ability of individuals or groups to impose their will upon others and make them do things even against their will.

Question 63

The pollutant _______________ has been linked to senile dementia, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's disease.

Question 64

The physical and psychological harm caused by an exploitative system is called ___________________________.

Question 65

_______________ is the belief that the ways of one's own culture are the only proper ones.

Question 66

Anthropologists are interested in the future.

Question 67

Pressing others through attraction and persuasion to change their beliefs is called ___________________________.

Question 68

The total value of all goods and services produced within a country per year is its ____________________________________.

Question 69

Globally, although there is structural violence, equality is increasing rapidly.

Question 70

The Pashto are the most subordinate group in Afghanistan.

Question 71

There is a global trend of economic egalitarianism.

Question 72

_______________ is a radical version of traditional Islamic law.

Question 73

The process of economic change, whereby developing countries acquire some of the social and political characteristics of Western industrial nations is called _______________.

Question 74

The most recent subprocess of modernization is _______________.

Question 75

The national language of Afghanistan is _______________.

Question 76

Today, over a quarter of the world's countries do not produce enough food to feed their populations.

Question 77

The Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous peoples is largely a symbolic document.

Question 78

Population dramatically increases the scale of threats from ______________ and _______________.

Question 79

There are developed pockets of resistance in the global order.

Question 80

About 6 billion people in the world are undernourished.