Contemporary World Flashcards
It is a metaphor used to understand the
concept of globalization that refers to
barriers that prevent or make difficult the
movement of things.
A) Solidity
B) Liquidity
C) Dimensionality
D) Flows
A) Solidity
It refers to the increasing ease of
movement of people, things, information,
and places in the contemporary world.
A) Solidity
B) Liquidity
C) Dimensionality
D) Flows
B) Liquidity
It refers to the movement of people,
things, places, and information brought
by the growing “porosity” of global
limitations.
A) Solidity
B) Liquidity
C) Dimensionality
D) Flows
D) Flows
Which of the following are example of
flows?
A) Global financial crisis
B) Virtual flow of legal and illegal information
such as blogs and child pornography
A) Immigrants recreating ethnic claves in
host countries
B) All of the above
B) All of the above
Who coined the term “glocalization”?
A) Arjun Appadurai
B) Roland Robertson
C) George Ritzer
D) Benjamin Barber
B) Roland Robertson
What are the three perspectives on
global cultural flows?
A) Differentialism, hybridization,
imperialism
B) Differentialism, imperialism,
convergence
C) Differentialism, hybridization,
convergence
D) Differentialism, imperialism,
convergence
C) Differentialism, hybridization,
convergence
It emphasizes the fact that cultures are
essentially different and are only
superficially affected by global flows.
A) Cultural Hybridization
B) Cultural Convergence
C) Cultural Differentialism
D) Cultural Imperialism
C) Cultural Differentialism
The idea of __________ means that it is
much more difficult to tie culture to a
specific geographic point of origin.
A) McDonalization
B) Cultural Hybridization
C) Scapes
D) Deterritorialization
D) Deterritorializatio
It is a governing body that sets rules and
regulations by which different nations
exchange currencies with each other.
A) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
B) World Trade Organization (WTO)
C) Trans National Corporations (TNCs)
D) Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs)
A) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
This event led to the opening of the major
parts of the world for the first time since
the early twentieth century.
A) The emergence of the United States as
the global power.
B) The emergence of multinational
corporations (MNCs)
C) The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
D) None of the above
C) The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991
A singular historical period during which
mortality and fertility rates decline from
high to low levels in a particular country
or region.
A) Demographic regionalization
B) Demographic transition
C) Demographic migration
D) Demographic acceleration
B) Demographic transition
Among the eight goals of United Nations,
which of the following ranked first?
A) Achieving universal primary education
B) Promoting gender equality and women
empowerment
C) Ensuring environmental sustainability
D) Eradication of extreme poverty and
hunger
D) Eradication of extreme poverty and
hunger
According to Ritzer, ____________ are
on the move “because they have to be”–
they are not faring well in their home
countries and are forced to move in the
hope that their circumstances will
improve.
A) Vagabonds
B) Tourists
C) Seekers
D) Residents
A) Vagabonds
Who is the writer of the book entitled “The
Clash of Civilization”?
A) Max Weber
B) Samuel Huntington
C) Peter Bayer
D) Lori Beaman
B) Samuel Huntington
Who pioneered the idea of microcredit?
A) Max Weber
B) Arjun Appadurai
C) Muhammad Yunus
D) Hans Rosling
C) Muhammad Yunus
What is the correct order of Walt
Rostow’s four stages of modernization?
I. High mass consumption
II. Traditional stage
III. Drive to technological maturity
IV. Take-off stage
A) II, III, I, IV
B) II, IV, III, I
C) II, IV, I, III
D) II, I, IV, III
B) II, IV, III, I
This theory was developed in the 1950s,
to explain how both the development and
the underdevelopment of countries are
related in the international system. This
theory simply answers why some
countries are poor and some rich. What
theory is this?
C) Dependency Theory
As per the Dependence Theory, this term
is used describe countries that are less
developed and receive an unequal
distribution of the world’s wealth.
A) Peripheral Nations
B) Core Nations
C) United Nations
D) None of the Above
A) Peripheral Nations
This term is used to describe countries
that are more industrialized and who
receive the majority of the world’s wealth.
A) Peripheral Nations
B) Core Nations
C) United Nations
D) None of the Above
B) Core Nations
This system was established to
restructure the world economy and
ensure global financial stability after the
world had suffered because of World War
I, the Great Depression in the 1930s and
World War II.
A) Bretton Woods
B) Britain Woods
C) Bretton Wools
D) Britain Wools
A) Bretton Woods
This is an intergovernmental organization
tasked to promote international
cooperation and create and maintain
international order.
A) WHO
B) ECOSOC
C) NAFTA
D) UNESCO
D) UNESCO
A widespread belief among powerful
people that the global integration of
economic markets is beneficial for
everyone.
A) Globalism
A) Globalism
B) Intensification
C) Expansion
D) Ethnoscape
It stands for free flow of trade relations
among all the nations. Each state grants
MFN (most favored nation) status to
other states and keeps its business and
trade away from excessive and hard
regulatory and protective regimes.
A) Privatization
B) Export System
C) Free Trade
D) Liberalization
C) Free Trade
The following are characteristics of
capitalism EXCEPT:
A) A system in which all natural resources
and means of production are privately
owned.
B) It emphasizes profit maximization and
competition are the main drivers of
efficiency.
C) When one owns a business, he needs to
outperform his competitors if he is going
to succeed.
D) Production are under collective
ownership.
D) Production are under collective
ownership.
Who viewed socialism as a stepping
stone toward communism?
A) Karl Marx
B) Vladimir Lenin
C) George Orwell
D) Mao Zedong
A) Karl Marx
As international trade becomes easier
and more widespread, more than just
goods and services are exchanged.
Cultural practices and expressions are
also passed between nations, spreading
from group to group. This is called
__________.
A) Compression
B) Diffusion
C) Progression
D) Transfusion
B) Diffusion
This treaty established the notion of the
nation-state and the idea of state
sovereignty.
A) Treaty of Paris
B) Treaty of Tordesillas
C) Treaty of Westphalia
D) Treaty of Versailles
C) Treaty of Westphalia
Which of the following are the factors
behind emergence of global
governance?
A) Flow of digital information of all sorts
through the internet.
B) Mass migration of people and their entry,
often illegally, into various nation-states.
C) Horrendous events within nation-states
that the states themselves either foment
and carry out, or are unable to control.
D) All of the above.
D) All of the above.
