Chapter 9

Question 1

Colonialism

Answer 1

System by which Western nations become wealthy by taking raw materials from other societies and ribbon profits from products finish in the homeland

Question 2

Terrorism

Answer 2

The unlawful use of force or violence against people or property to intimate or state governments or population furtherance of political or social objectives

Question 3

Semiperipheral countries

Answer 3

Semi industrialized countries that represent a kind of middle class within the world system.

Question 4

Multinational corporations

Answer 4

Corporations that conduct business across national borders.

Question 5

World cities

Answer 5

Cities that are closely linked through the system of international commerce.

Question 6

Gross national income (GNI)

Answer 6

The total output of goods and services produced by residents of a country each year plus income from nonresident sources, divided by the size of population.

Question 7

Commodity chain

Answer 7

The network of production and labor processes by which a product becomes finished commodity. Following the commodity chain, it is evident which countries can profits and which ones are being exploited.

Question 8

Multidimensional poverty index

Answer 8

Measure of poverty that accounts for health education and standard of living.

Question 9

Extreme poverty

Answer 9

Situation in which people live on less than two and 275 a year and 1.25 a day

Question 10

Global stratification

Answer 10

The systematic inequalities between and among different groups within nations a result from differences in wealth, power, prestige of different societies relative to their position in the international economy.

Question 11

Power

Answer 11

A person or group’s ability to assess influence and control over others

Question 12

Neocolonialism

Answer 12

A form of control of poor countries by rich countries, but without direct political or military involvement.

Question 13

Relative poverty

Answer 13

The definition of poverty that is sent in comparison to a set standard.

Question 14

World systems theory

Answer 14

Theory that capitalism is a single world economy and that there is a worldwide system of unequal political and economic relationships the benefits the technological advance countries at the expense of less technologically advanced.

Question 15

Global outsourcing

Answer 15

Process by which stores are located overseas even while supporting US-based businesses.

Question 16

Dependency theory

Answer 16

The global theory maintaining that industrialized nations hold less industrialized nations in a dependent, exploitative, relationship that benefits the industrialized nations at the expense of the less industrialized ones.

Question 17

International division of labor

Answer 17

System of labor whereby products are produced globally, while profits accrue only to a few.

Question 18

Gini coefficient

Answer 18

Measure of income distribution within a given population.

Question 19

Newly industrializing countries (NICs)

Answer 19

Countries that have shown rapid growth emerged as developed countries.

Question 20

Peripheral countries

Answer 20

Poor countries, largly agricultural, having little power or influence in the world system.

Question 21

Modernization theory

Answer 21

A view of globalization in which global developments is a worldwide process affecting nearly all societies that have been touched by technological change.

Question 22

Absolute poverty

Answer 22

A situation in which individuals live on less than 365 dollars a year or a dollar a day.

Question 23

Core countries

Answer 23

Within world systems theory, those measures that are more technologically advanced.