Chapter 15: Politics and the Economy

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. What is the term for groups that go through established governmental channels to compete and meet their own objectives?

a. governmental institutionalization

b. politics

c. political science

d. the conflict hypothesis

Learning Objective: 15.1: Contrast democracy and dictatorship.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Politics: Democracy or Dictatorship

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Which of these is a political system in which people vote for their leaders and for legislation?

a. capitalism

b. dictatorship

c. republic

d. democracy

Learning Objective: 15.1: Contrast democracy and dictatorship.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Democracy: Citizenship as a Radical Idea

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. What type of rule is characterized by the consent of the people translated through elected officials?

a. national democracy

b. representative democracy

c. direct democracy

d. representative republic

Learning Objective: 15.1: Contrast democracy and dictatorship.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Democracy: Citizenship as a Radical Idea

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Democracies are typically organized into ______ with clear hierarchies and written laws.

a. constitutional systems

b. nation-states

c. bureaucracies

d. census tracts

Learning Objective: 15.1: Contrast democracy and dictatorship.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Democracies

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. The national government in the United State is an example of which type of democracy?

a. representative

b. symbolic

c. emblematic

d. direct

Learning Objective: 15.1: Contrast democracy and dictatorship.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Democracy: Citizenship as a Radical Idea

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Which of these is a criticism of democracies?

a. Voters are typically uninformed about political issues.

b. Liberal democracies don't extend enough rights.

c. Little diversity of thought exists.

d. Laws tend to be repressive.

Learning Objective: 15.1: Contrast democracy and dictatorship.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Democracy: Citizenship as a Radical Idea

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Madison has the right to vote for representatives and has responsibilities such as paying taxes, both of which come with being a ______ in the U.S.

a. veteran

b. immigrant

c. citizen

d. democrat

Learning Objective: 15.1: Contrast democracy and dictatorship.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Characteristics of Democracies

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Which of these is the region with the lowest ranking on democratic human rights from around the world as ranked by Freedom House?

a. Europe

b. China

c. Middle East/North Africa

d. South Africa

Learning Objective: 15.1: Contrast democracy and dictatorship.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Democracies

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Which of these is a behavior associated with the rise of fascism?

a. seeking to destroy an independent press

b. encouraging contempt for our political system and electoral process

c. speaking casually about the use of violence against enemies

d. All of these are associated with the rise of fascism.

Learning Objective: 15.1: Contrast democracy and dictatorship.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Rise of Illiberal Democracy, or is it Fascism?

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Which states are usually totalitarian and ruled either by a single individual or by a small group of people?

a. monarchies

b. dictatorships

c. democracies

d. oligarchies

Learning Objective: 15.1: Contrast democracy and dictatorship.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Dictatorship: The Seizure of Power

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. The dictatorships discussed in your text all had a(n) ______ in which political life and the public sphere centered around men.

a. organizational structure

b. patriarchal structure

c. cult of masculinity

d. center of masculinity

Learning Objective: 15.1: Contrast democracy and dictatorship.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Dictatorship: The Seizure of Power

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Structural-functionalism answers the question “Who rules the U.S.?” with which of these?

a. the wealthy

b. a plurality of groups

c. elected representatives

d. the president

Learning Objective: 15.2: Outline who rules the United States using the perspectives of structural/functional and conflict/critical theories.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Structural/Functional Perspective: Pluralism

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. One strand of structural-functionalism focuses on ______, in which society has many different players who compete for access to political power.

a. group pluralism

b. power elites

c. citizens

d. elite pluralism

Learning Objective: 15.2: Outline who rules the United States using the perspectives of structural/functional and conflict/critical theories.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Structural/Functional Perspective: Pluralism

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Elite pluralists take which of these positions?

a. Voters make the final decisions as far as who represents them.

b. Political elites are not a diverse social body.

c. There is no diversity of interests among the various political groups.

d. The competition for votes ensures that no one group retains political power indefinitely.

Learning Objective: 15.2: Outline who rules the United States using the perspectives of structural/functional and conflict/critical theories.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Structural/Functional Perspective: Pluralism

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Which sociologist is associated with the power elite theory?

a. Karl Marx

b. C. Wright Mills

c. William Julius Wilson

d. Max Weber

Learning Objective: 15.2: Outline who rules the United States using the perspectives of structural/functional and conflict/critical theories.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Conflict/Critical Perspective: The Power Elite

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Which of these is TRUE according to the power elite theory?

a. Power is concentrated in a small number of people who control the major institutions of the state.

b. Power is dispersed throughout a stable society.

c. Power is concentrated in the hands of the people rather than the elite.

d. Power is concentrated in the hands of those in government.

Learning Objective: 15.2: Outline who rules the United States using the perspectives of structural/functional and conflict/critical theories.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Conflict/Critical Perspective: The Power Elite

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Which of these is a problem with Power Elite theory?

a. It does not explain how the elites come to power.

b. It assumes that elites share a common worldview.

c. It does not explain how people come to elect certain types of elite to office.

d. It is unclear and vague in its explanation.

Learning Objective: 15.2: Outline who rules the United States using the perspectives of structural/functional and conflict/critical theories.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Which Perspective Is Correct?

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Which organization was created after World War I to lead global efforts at peace?

a. World Congress

b. United Nations

c. Peace Corps

d. League of Nations

Learning Objective: 15.3: Explain how global politics affect war and terrorism, geopolitics, and the nation-state.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Global Politics

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Which of these is TRUE of legitimate violence?

a. Violence from the state is legitimate only through its military.

b. Violence from the state is legitimate only through its police.

c. A state can allow private security firms to enlist violence if it sees this violence as legitimate.

d. States allow private citizens to use violence only when it is in defense of themselves.

Learning Objective: 15.3: Explain how global politics affect war and terrorism, geopolitics, and the nation-state.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Implementing Political Objective: Legitimate Violence, War, And Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Which of these occurs when a nation uses its military in an attempt to impose its will on others outside the nation?

a. terrorism

b. democracy

c. war

d. geopolitics

Learning Objective: 15.3: Explain how global politics affect war and terrorism, geopolitics, and the nation-state.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: War

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. When nongovernmental actors engage in acts of violence targeting noncombatants or private property, they are called which of these?

a. criminals

b. terrorists

c. warriors

d. civilian-soldiers

Learning Objective: 15.3: Explain how global politics affect war and terrorism, geopolitics, and the nation-state.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. The group Boko Haram killed people and kidnapped girls from a school in Nigeria. Their actions are considered which of these?

a. terrorism

b. globalized violence

c. insurgent war

d. legitimate violence

Learning Objective: 15.3: Explain how global politics affect war and terrorism, geopolitics, and the nation-state.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Political relationships that involve geographic areas, including the globe, are referred to as which of these?

a. self-interest politics

b. urbanized politics

c. geopolitics

d. egotism politics

Learning Objective: 15.3: Explain how global politics affect war and terrorism, geopolitics, and the nation-state.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Geopolitics

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. People who share similar cultural, religious, ethnic, and linguistic characteristics over long periods of time are categorized as which of these?

a. imagined communities

b. nation-state

c. state

d. nation

Learning Objective: 15.3: Explain how global politics affect war and terrorism, geopolitics, and the nation-state.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Nation and the Nation-State

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. Jews, Syrians, and Iraqis have all been dispersed across the globe. Their dispersal is known as which of these?

a. imagined communities

b. nation-state

c. diaspora

d. nation

Learning Objective: 15.3: Explain how global politics affect war and terrorism, geopolitics, and the nation-state.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Nation and the Nation-State

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. Jews, Syrians, and Iraqis have all been dispersed across the globe but retain a collective memory of their homeland and wish to return to it that they transmit to their children. Many, however, have no contact with their homeland. Their identification with a homeland that they now have no part of is known as which of these?

a. imagined communities

b. nation-state

c. diaspora

d. nation

Learning Objective: 15.3: Explain how global politics affect war and terrorism, geopolitics, and the nation-state.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Nation and the Nation-State

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. Syria has lost control over much of its territory. However, it is still a geographical area that encompasses people with shared identities and culture with a government. Syria would be considered which of these?

a. imagined communities

b. nation-state

c. diaspora

d. nation

Learning Objective: 15.3: Explain how global politics affect war and terrorism, geopolitics, and the nation-state.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Nation and the Nation-State

Difficulty Level: Medium

28. Which of these is a characteristic of a failed state?

a. too much control over its own territory

b. large flows of refugees

c. lack of inflation

d. providing only basic services

Learning Objective: 15.3: Explain how global politics affect war and terrorism, geopolitics, and the nation-state.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Nation and the Nation-State

Difficulty Level: Medium

29. Which of these is a social system involved in the production and distribution of goods?

a. government

b. political system

c. economy

d. regime

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Economy: Major Forms and Changes

Difficulty Level: Easy

30. Which of these is TRUE of sociologists and economics?

a. Sociologists are more concerned with individual, rational actors than are economists.

b. Sociologists are more concerned with the linkages between economic and non-economic phenomenon than are economists.

c. Sociologists rarely examine the economy, leaving the study of it to economists.

d. Classical sociologists had little interest in the economy.

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Sociology of the Economy

Difficulty Level: Medium

31. Which of these is the first and longest-running concern of sociology?

a. mass production

b. democracy

c. treaties

d. economy

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sociology of the Economy

Difficulty Level: Easy

32. A characteristic of a communistic system is which of these?

a. the collective ownership of the means of production

b. the private ownership of the means of production

c. maximization of profit

d. division of social classes

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Socialism and Communism

Difficulty Level: Medium

33. Which country continues to see itself as a communist society today?

a. China

b. the U.S.

c. Russia

d. Denmark

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Socialism, and Communism

Difficulty Level: Easy

34. Which of these seeks to operate economic markets efficiently but equitably?

a. socialist state

b. communist state

c. welfare state

d. capitalist state

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Welfare States

Difficulty Level: Easy

35. Which of these could be seen as a welfare state?

a. China

b. the U.S.

c. Russia

d. Denmark

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Welfare States

Difficulty Level: Easy

36. What is the term for market domination by a few companies?

a. competitive capitalism

b. monopoly capitalism

c. transnational capitalism

d. welfare capitalism

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Capitalism

Difficulty Level: Easy

37. In recent years which of these is a global trend in capitalism?

a. competitive capitalism

b. monopoly capitalism

c. transnational capitalism

d. welfare capitalism

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Capitalism

Difficulty Level: Medium

38. Larry puts together a bookshelf he has purchased on Amazon. Which of these describes Larry?

a. consumer

b. capitalist

c. prosumer

d. discouraged worker

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Capitalism

Difficulty Level: Medium

39. The key development in the emergence of the modern economy was which of these?

a. the industrial revolution

b. the agricultural revolution

c. the postindustrial revolution

d. the progressive revolution

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Industrial Revolution

Difficulty Level: Easy

40. Automobile factories and manufacturing plants are examples of which type of industries?

a. bureaucratic

b. bulk-production

c. mass-production

d. structural

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Industrial Revolution

Difficulty Level: Easy

41. Fordism dominated much of the ______ U.S. automobile industry.

a. 18th-century

b. 19th-century

c. 20th-century

d. 21st-century

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: From Fordism to Post-Fordism

Difficulty Level: Easy

42. Compared to Fordism, Post-Fordism is associated with which of these?

a. smaller production runs

b. larger production runs

c. more generic products

d. more reliance on economies of scale

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: From Fordism to Post-Fordism

Difficulty Level: Medium

43. Which of these involves the decline of manufacturing as well as a corresponding increase in various types of services?

a. industrialization

b. urbanization

c. deindustrialization

d. suburbanization

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Deindustrialization in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

44. What percent of the U.S. labor force is unionized?

a. 1%

b. 5%

c. 10%

d. 30%

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Deindustrialization in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

45. When did U.S. labor unions begin to decline?

a. 1920s

b. 1940s

c. 1960s

d. 1980s

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Decline of American Labor Unions

Difficulty Level: Easy

46. Why did U.S. labor unions begin to decline?

a. Workers were able to get good benefits without them.

b. Many unionized jobs were automated and thus workers were no longer in those jobs to form a union.

c. the loss of white-collar jobs

d. corruption in unions

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Decline of American Labor Unions

Difficulty Level: Medium

47. Renita lost her job at a corporation due to downsizing. She has a degree in electrical engineering, but she cannot find a job in her profession. What term best describes Renita’s job status?

a. unemployed

b. underemployed

c. discouraged worker

d. seasonal worker

Learning Objective: 15.5: Discuss how work, consumption, and leisure shape our understanding of the economy.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Employment, Unemployment, and Underemployment

Difficulty Level: Medium

48. Renita lost her job at a corporation due to downsizing. She has a degree in electrical engineering, but she cannot find a job in her profession and thus she must work part-time at a sandwich shop. What term best describes Renita’s job status?

a. unemployed

b. underemployed

c. discouraged worker

d. seasonal worker

Learning Objective: 15.5: Discuss how work, consumption, and leisure shape our understanding of the economy.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Employment, Unemployment, and Underemployment

Difficulty Level: Medium

49. Which of these is a society that has transitioned from manufacture of goods to service work?

a. post-industrial society

b. industrial society

c. agrarian society

d. post-capitalist society

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Postindustrial society

Difficulty Level: Easy

50. Which of these refers to a large group of people who are marginally attached to the workforce?

a. overemployed workers

b. frustrated workers

c. demoralized workers

d. discouraged workers

Learning Objective: 15.5: Discuss how work, consumption, and leisure shape our understanding of the economy.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Employment, Unemployment, and Underemployment

Difficulty Level: Medium

51. Places like shopping malls, theme parks, and Amazon.com can be considered which of these?

a. Fordist spaces

b. cathedrals of consumption

c. postconsumer spaces

d. hyperconsumption spaces

Learning Objective: 15.5: Discuss how work, consumption, and leisure shape our understanding of the economy.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Consumption and the Postmodern Society

Difficulty Level: Medium

52. Gianna’s credit card debt is $25,000, and she can barely make the mortgage on her seven-bedroom estate. What does Gianna’s situation exemplify?

a. hypoconsumerism

b. hyperdebt

c. hyperconsumerism

d. the credit-debt society

Learning Objective: 15.5: Discuss how work, consumption, and leisure shape our understanding of the economy.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Consumption and the Postmodern Society

Difficulty Level: Medium

53. Leisure-time activities are more likely to be found among which social class?

a. underclass

b. lower class

c. working class

d. upper class

Learning Objective: 15.5: Discuss how work, consumption, and leisure shape our understanding of the economy.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leisure

Difficulty Level: Medium

54. Globalization as it relates to money and finance is called which of these?

a. macrofinance

b. microfinance

c. mesofinance

d. exofinance

Learning Objective: 15.6: Describe the effects of globalization on the world economy.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Globalization and the Economy

Difficulty Level: Easy

55. Which of these factors worsened the international financial situation during the euro crisis?

a. the difficulty in importing food and consumer goods

b. the difficulty in borrowing money to keep economies functioning

c. the difficulty of traveling past international borders

d. the increase in war around the globe

Learning Objective: 15.6: Describe the effects of globalization on the world economy.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Globalization and the Economy

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. In modern democracies, people vote to choose their legislators rather than managing their own political affairs and directly making decisions about the things that affect their lives.

Learning Objective: 15.1: Contrast democracy and dictatorship.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Democracy: Citizenship as a Radical Idea

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. The U.S. has always offered universal citizenship.

Learning Objective: 15.1: Contrast democracy and dictatorship.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Democracy: Citizenship as a Radical Idea

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Most democratic states do NOT guarantee citizens the right to freely express dissent, freedom of the press, or the right to due process and equality before the law.

Learning Objective: 15.1: Contrast democracy and dictatorship.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Democracy: Citizenship as a Radical Idea

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. The U.S. has sponsored dictatorships in other countries.

Learning Objective: 15.1: Contrast democracy and dictatorship.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Dictatorship: The Seizure of Power

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Donald Trump has exhibited characteristics of a move toward fascism by breaking political norms, delegitimizing other political candidates, encouraging violence and limiting opponents’ civil liberties.

Learning Objective: 15.1: Contrast democracy and dictatorship.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Rise of Illiberal Democracy, or is it Fascism?

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Jenny identifies as a group pluralist. As such, she believes that there tends to be a consensus of values in society.

Learning Objective: 15.2: Outline who rules the United States using the perspectives of structural/functional and conflict/critical theories.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Structural/Functional Perspective: Pluralism

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Karl Marx developed the conflict power elite theory.

Learning Objective: 15.2: Outline who rules the United States using the perspectives of structural/functional and conflict/critical theories.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Conflict/Critical Perspective: The Power Elite

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. The Power Elite theory’s assertion that society is stable is a problem with this theory.

Learning Objective: 15.2: Outline who rules the United States using the perspectives of structural/functional and conflict/critical theories.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Which Perspective Is Correct?

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. The United Nations and organizations within it has led to the end of interstate wars.

Learning Objective: 15.3: Explain how global politics affect war and terrorism, geopolitics, and the nation-state.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Global Politics

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. The power of the state resides in its ability to use legitimate violence.

Learning Objective: 15.3: Explain how global politics affect war and terrorism, geopolitics, and the nation-state.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Implementing Political Objectives: Legitimate Violence, War, and Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. After World War II, geopolitics focused on the relationship between the U.S. and China.

Learning Objective: 15.3: Explain how global politics affect war and terrorism, geopolitics, and the nation-state.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Geopolitics

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Jews can be defined as a nation.

Learning Objective: 15.3: Explain how global politics affect war and terrorism, geopolitics, and the nation-state.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Nation and The Nation-State

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Vietnamese children who have never been to Vietnam but who see themselves as part of an international group rooted in Vietnam are considered a diaspora.

Learning Objective: 15.3: Explain how global politics affect war and terrorism, geopolitics, and the nation-state.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Nation and The Nation-State

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Karl Marx was the only classical sociologist with an interest in the economy.

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Sociology of the Economy

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Communism is an economic system that is based primarily on the private ownership of the means of production.

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Socialism and Communism

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. The goal of welfare states is to provide for the well-being of its citizens, such as national health plans and old age plans.

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Welfare States

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Capitalism today can be characterized as producer capitalism.

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Capitalism

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. When the auto industry was controlled by Ford, General Motors and Chrysler this was known as competitive capitalism.

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Capitalism

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Facebook exemplifies the model of prosumer capitalism.

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Capitalism

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Automobile factories are examples of mass production.

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Industrial Revolution

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. The decline of manufacturing plants and the rise of service jobs is referred to as outsourcing.

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Deindustrialization in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. KEY: Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Decline of American Labor Unions

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. A postindustrial society is one where the focus is on service work rather than manufacturing of goods.

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

Answer Location: The Postindustrial Society

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. Most people in the U.S. who want jobs have them, although they might NOT always have the jobs that they want.

Learning Objective: 15.5: Discuss how work, consumption, and leisure shape our understanding of the economy.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Employment, Unemployment, and Underemployment

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. A number of people in the U.S. live in large houses and have two or three vehicles, yet they don't have the money to pay the mortgage and car payments. This is an example of hypoconsumption.

Learning Objective: 15.5: Discuss how work, consumption, and leisure shape our understanding of the economy.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Consumption and the Postmodern Society

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. Banking practices tied to the U.S. housing market and such financial instruments set off a chain reaction that devastated international economic flows and triggered a global recession.

Learning Objective: 15.6: Describe the effects of globalization on the world economy.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Globalization and the Economy

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. Define the term democracy and discuss the differences between a representative and direct democracy. Include in your discussion the terms citizens and citizenship.

Learning Objective: 15.1: Contrast democracy and dictatorship.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Democracy: Citizenship as a Radical Idea

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Who rules the U.S. according to the structural-functional and conflict perspectives? Include in your discussion the power elite theory and elite pluralism in your response. Include one criticism of each perspective.

Learning Objective: 15.2: Outline who rules the United States using the perspectives of structural/functional and conflict/critical theories.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Who Rules the United States?

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. Define the term deindustrialization and discuss two factors that are responsible for deindustrialization in the U.S.

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Deindustrialization in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Define and give examples of the terms unemployment, underemployment, and discouraged workers.

Learning Objective: 15.5: Discuss how work, consumption, and leisure shape our understanding of the economy.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension and Analysis

Answer Location: Employment, Unemployment, and Underemployment

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Discuss the characteristics of a postmodern society. Include in your response what is meant by the terms consumerism, hyperconsumption, and hyperdebt and provide examples of each.

Learning Objective: 15.5: Discuss how work, consumption, and leisure shape our understanding of the economy.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Consumption and the Postmodern Society

Difficulty Level: Medium