| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A sociologist who focuses on the way that multinational corporations headquartered in core nations exploit the local workers in their peripheral nation factories is using a _________ perspective to understand the global economy. | conflict theory functional feminist symbolic interactionist |
| A ____________ perspective theorist might find it particularly noteworthy that wealthy corporations improve the quality of life in peripheral nations by providing workers with jobs, pumping money into the local economy, and improving transportation infrastructure. | functional conflict feminist symbolic interactionist |
| A sociologist working from a symbolic interaction perspective would: | want to interview women working in factories to understand how they manage the expectations of their supervisors, make ends meet, and support their households on a day-to-day basis study how inequality is created and reproduced study how corporations can improve the lives of their low-income workers try to understand how companies provide an advantage to high-income nations compared to low-income nations |
| France might be classified as which kind of nation? | Core Global Semi-peripheral Peripheral |
| In the past, the United States manufactured clothes. Many clothing corporations have shut down their U.S. factories and relocated to China. This is an example of: | capital flight conflict theory automation global inequality |
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