Macionis Sociology Ch. 9

The U.S., Germany, and Australia are all classified as  

• low-income countries
• middle-income countries
• high-income countries
• high-altitude countries

High-income nations

• have a lot of technology
• have big, high-tech factories
• have all the world's financial markets
• really, they just have all of these things

If Carmen SanDiego wanted to visit a low-income nation, where would she go?

• Mexico
• Canada
• South Africa
• Ethiopia

Most people in the world live in

• rich countries
• poor countries
• middle-income countries
• democratic countries

Countries with the highest population growth also have

• lowest economic productivity
• highest level of economic independence
• highest levels of technology
• biggest increase in GDP

What do we call poverty that is life threatening

• absolute poverty
• relative poverty
• monetary poverty
• poverty of soul

What percentage of the world's people in poverty are women?

• 15%
• 50%
• 25%
• 70%

Chattel slavery means

• one person owns another
• one persons own a small herd of cattle
• a married man considers his wife his slave
• abducted children are held as slaves

Debt bondage is

• when you owe your employer more than you're getting in wages so you can't quit your job
• your debts are higher than your assets
• your assets are worth more than your debts
• you have to declare bankruptcy

Rich nations take advantage of poor nations through economic and political control.  This is called

• Colonialism
• Persecution
• Tribalism
• Globalism