MCQs of Sociology -Globalization

How has the global human population grown between the Industrial Revolution of around 1750 and 2013?

In what type of society have human beings lived for the majority of the time humans have been on planet Earth?

How do sociologists describe former Third World societies that have moved towards an economic base in industrial production?

which definition best describes the process of globalization?

Wallerstein,s world-systems theory is inspired by.

What proportion of world trade is accounted for by transnational corporations?

Which of the following is not part of the argument made against globalization by sceptics?

In 2013 which world region had the lowest proportion of Internet users per head of population but also the fastest rate of growth users?

The thesis of glocalization is associated with which theorist?

Which of the following is a true statement?

Which of the following is NOT an example of a pre-modern social form.

Cultural relativism is the idea that societies have to be studied in terms of their.

Which of these classification terms when in use would never have been used to describe for example Ghana in Africa?

Which of the following positions is NOT associated with the hyperglobalizers ?

Which one of these is NOT one of the newly industrializing countries?

Which of the following is NOT an INGO ?

Put the GDPs of these countries in descending order.

What percentage of the global population lives in What the World Bank describes as high-income countries?

What proportion of the world,s annual wealth output is concentrated in high-income countries?

What proportion of malnourished children under the age of five in the world,s low-and middle-income countries live in countries that actually produce a food surplus?

In which sector do two-thirds of the world,s working children perform their labour ?

Which theorist is most associated with world-systems theory?

World-systems theory distinguishes between core peripheral and semi-peripheral countries Which one of the following countries is part of the semi-periphery?

What is the main role of the International Monetary Fund?

Which of these is not a key factor behind the potential economic catch-up of developing nations according to Willem Buiter?

In demographic terms what is the main argument associated with Malthusianism ?

Global economic inequality refers primarily to.

Which of these does not include income earned by individuals or corporations outside a country?

According to the World Bank Which of these is a middle-income country?

The sequence of Rostow,s stages of economic growth are.

Dependency theorists from low-income countries drew on the ideas of.

The Bretton Woods institutions are.

The potential number of children that women are capable of bearing is called.

The activity of measuring and explaining the size of populations is know as.

The demographic transition refers to.