Deck 60: Global Social Change

Question 1

Immigrants who sustain multiple social relationships that link their societies of origin with their societies of settlement are known as

A)transnationals.
B)transglobals.
C)international citizens.
D)global citizens.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The Patriot Act allows federal officials more latitude in

A)gathering electronic data,like banking records.
B)photographing suspects.
C)monitoring the voting patterns of criminal suspects.
D)videotaping suspects who are being interrogated.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Genetically modified food is referred to as Frankenfood by critics of technologically engineered food products.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Which sociological perspective would suggest that the Internet serves the manifest function of facilitating communication?

A)functionalist perspective
B)conflict perspective
C)interactionist perspective
D)dramaturgical perspective

Question 5

Maureen Hallinan,former president of the American Sociological Association,has been critical of the ________ of social change.

A)evolutionary theory
B)equilibrium model
C)chaos theory
D)evolutionary theory and equilibrium model

Question 6

Discuss the pros and cons of genetically modified foods and whether you feel we can ever "cross the line" regarding genetic manipulation and our food supply.

Question 7

Consistent with Immanuel Wallerstein's world systems analysis,peripheral nations connecting to the Internet are required to depend on industrial giants such as North America and Europe to provide

A)cellular connections.
B)Internet hosts.
C)masters.
D)biomechanics.

Question 8

Which sociologist correctly predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union based on that country's twentieth-century expansionism and overextension of resources?

A)Randall Collins
B)Maureen Hallinan
C)Mikhail Gorbachev
D)Charles Perrow

Question 9

Which sociological perspective suggests that censorship is an ever-present danger that society's most powerful groups will use to invade the privacy of the less powerful?

A)functionalist perspective
B)conflict perspective
C)interactionist perspective
D)dramaturgical perspective

Question 10

The affluent have a greater chance of using the Internet than those who are not affluent.

Question 11

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act,which passed in 1986,requires the authorization of a U.S.attorney general and then the approval of a federal judge before surveillance of

A)e-mail.
B)faxes.
C)telephone calls.
D)telegrams.

Question 12

Which sociological perspective views transnationals as a way for economies to maximize their use of human labor?

A)functionalism
B)conflict theory
C)interactionism
D)world systems theory

Question 13

One key feature of current consumer technologies is that they

A)are increasingly manufactured in Canada.
B)last a lot longer.
C)require more frequent upgrading.
D)are less accessible to the middle class.

Question 14

Young people who have grown up surfing the web seem to accept the existence of "cookies" and "spyware" they may pick up while surfing.

Question 15

A major issue of our future will be how to redefine our concept of community as more people feel allegiance to more than one nation.

Question 16

Core nations like the United States and Europe have a virtual monopoly on information technology.

Question 17

A new technology used to increase food production and to make agriculture more economical is called

A)genetically modified food.
B)cloned food.
C)technoproduce.
D)biotech dietary supplements.

Question 18

Which region of the world has the highest number of Internet users?

A)North America
B)Europe
C)Asia
D)Middle East

Question 19

Which sociological perspective views transnational migration as having increased the economic gulf between developed and developing nations?

A)functionalism
B)conflict theory
C)interactionism
D)modernization theory

Question 20

Transnationals are lured by menial labor jobs that provide income superior to what they were able to earn in their native countries.

Question 21

Discuss the issues involved with transnationals.Explain the different sociological perspectives on the matter.Also,explain whether you would become a transnational if you were in the same position.