Chapter 9: Global Stratification

Question 1

According to world-systems analysis, dominant capitalist centers characterized by high levels of industrialization and urbanization, as well as a high degree of control over the world economy is called?

Answer 1

Core Nation

Question 2

What is the perspective that global poverty can at least partially be attributed to the fact that low-income countries have been exploited by high-income countries?

Answer 2

Dependency Theory

Question 3

What are all the goods and services produced in a country in a given year, plus the income earned outside the country by individuals or corporations called?

Answer 3

Gross National Income (GNI)

Question 4

What are the countries called that have an annual per capita gross national income of $US12,275 or more?

Answer 4

High-income economies

Question 5

What are the countries called that have an annual per capita gross national income between $US1005 and $US3975?

Answer 5

Lower-middlie-income economies

Question 6

What are the countries called that have an annual per capita gross national income of $US1500 or less?

Answer 6

Low-income economies

Question 7

What is the perspective that links global inequalities to different levels that suggest that low-income economies can move to middle- and high-income economies by achieving self-sustained economic growth?

Answer 7

Modernization theory

Question 8

What is the perspective that commodity production is being split into fragments that can be assigned to whichever part of the world can provide the most profitable combination of capital and labour?

Answer 8

New international division of labour theory

Question 9

According to world-systems analysis, what nations are dependent on core nations for capital, have little or no industrialization, and have uneven patterns of urbanization?

Answer 9

Peripheral nations

Question 10

According to world-systems analysis, what nations are more developed than peripheral nations but less developed than core nations?

Answer 10

Semiperipheral nations

Question 11

What are countries called when they have an annual per capita gross national income between $US3975 and $US12,274?

Answer 11

Upper-middle-income economies

Question 12

What is the perspective that the capitalist world economy is a global system divided into a hierarchy of 3 major types of nations-core, semiperipheral, and peripheral- in which upward or downward mobility is conditioned by the resources and obstacles what characterize the international system?

Answer 12

World-systems Analysis