Final Exam

Question 1

What is Net Migration rate?

Answer 1

the subtraction of immigration and emigration to see the increase or decrease in a population

Question 2

What is the Dependency Load?

Answer 2

the percentage of the population that are in the age group of younger than 15 and older than 65 (non working class)

Question 3

What is the Paradigm Shift?

Answer 3

a change in thinking, looking at certain views in different perspectives. Describes the scientific revolutions or changes in the basic concepts

Question 4

What is Globalization?

Answer 4

the interconnectedness of the world’s financial, economical, sociological, cultural, geographical, technological, politcal. and ecological systems

Question 5

What is a Global issue?

Answer 5

not just significant and important problems, but major issues that impact all human beings around the world
Ex. climate change

Question 6

What are the 8 types of wealth?

Answer 6

Financial, Emotional, Physical, Spiritual, Mental, Support, Relationship, Knowledge of hidden rules

Question 7

Who is Maude Barlow?

Answer 7

she is a Canadian water activist who is well known for her humanitarian actions in various nations in South America regarding the ethical issue of not everyone having free access to clean drinking water

Question 8

Who is William Catton

Answer 8

he was an American sociologist who mainly focused on human ecology. He is very famous for his well known theory of human population. He takes a Malthus view, and believes that earth’s carrying capacity has exceeded at the expense of environmental damage

Question 9

What is Neo-colonialism

Answer 9

founded shortly after WW2, where rich developed country economically control a poorer developing country rather than politcally

Question 10

What is Sustainable Development?

Answer 10

economic development that is conducted without the depletion of natural resources (Reuse, reduce, recycle)

Question 11

What a Development Index

Answer 11

foreign aid from wealthier to poorer countries. Both government and NGOs

Question 12

What is a Tragedy of Commons?

Answer 12

where individuals acting on their own self interests, share a common resource and eventually deplete it where it becomes no longer sustainable
Ex. cows on a field, fishing in the ocean

Question 13

What are Land Grabs?

Answer 13

the buying or leasing of large amounts of land in deveolping nations bought by domestic or foreign transnational companies or governments

Question 14

What is Migration?

Answer 14

the movement by people from one place to another with the intentions of settling temporarily or permanently in the new location. The movement is often over long distances and from one country to another

Question 15

What is Fair Trade?

Answer 15

a market system that is to some degree regulated to ensure that producers benefit from trade

• Ex. producers are guaranteed minimum price when they sell their product
• Based on the belief that marginalized producers in developing countries do not benefit sufficiently from free trade

Question 16

What is the Big Mac Index?

Answer 16

guide to whether currencies are at their “correct” level between nations, using the price of a Big Mac as the benchmark

Question 17

What are Slums of Hope?

Answer 17

low income squatter communities that provide affordable shelter, community support and informal jobs
-working towards improvements

Question 18

What are Slums of Despair?

Answer 18

area of urban poverty that offer few opportunities for escape. No community supports
-No government services, most extreme poverty (hood)

Question 19

What is Carrying Capacity?

Answer 19

the maximum number of people that can be sustained by an environment (Earth’s resources)

Question 20

What are Multinational Companies?

Answer 20

companies that operate in several countries: largely replaced by the term transnational companies because many are not clearly identified with any particular nation

Question 21

What is Colonialism?

Answer 21

acquisition and settlement of a territory or country by another nation

Question 22

What is Systems Thinking?

Answer 22

is the process of understanding how those things which may be regarded as systems influence one another within a complete entity, or larger system

Question 23

What are Population Pyramids?

Answer 23

type of graph that shows different groups regarding age sex (each cohort defines a group)

Question 24

What is Cultural Globalization?

Answer 24

refers to the transmission of ideas, meanings and values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social relations. This process is marked by the common consumption of cultures that have been diffused by the Internet, popular culture media, and international travel.
-Ex McDonald’s and Starbucks adjust/ tweak their products depending on region of sale

Question 25

Define Water as a Human Right

Answer 25

the fact that no one on this planet should be denied to access to clean water, it is one of their rights to be met

• ⅕ children below the age of 5 die due to shortage of water
• The human body can only survive 2-3 days without water
• More than half of all world hospital patients are victims of non clean water
• The fact that companies are privatizing water for a profit while people are dieing of thirst in poor countries
• There are wars people fighting to have access of water

Question 26

What is the first theory of Poverty - Poverty as entangling households

Answer 26

means the poor household suffers material poverty, physical weakness, social isolation, powerlessness, and vulnerability. AKA poverty trap

Question 27

Define Poverty as lack of access to power

Answer 27

Poor householdsare excluded 4 overlapping domains of social practices: the state, community, society, and economy. They do not have the networks of support, knowledge, info, finance, and skills

Question 28

Define Poverty as lack of freedom to reach full potential

Answer 28

People in poverty are stuck with the absence of finance, good education, and health care and cannot live their lives to the maximum potential. They are also like this because they are part of a certain group for example women, children, elders, and disabled people

Question 29

Explain Poverty theory 5 - Poverty as a system of disempowerment

Answer 29

The poor are trapped in a many leveled interactive working of bio-physical, social, political, economic, religious, and cultural systems. This system of dis empowerment, web of lies keep the poor trapped and disempowered

Question 30

What is 0.7 target?

Answer 30

urging the world’s governments to commit 0.7% of rich-countries’ gross national product (GNP) to Official Development Assistance. Developed countries that have not done so to make concrete efforts towards the target of 0.7 percent of gross national product (GNP) as ODA to developing countries for international aid