Sanderson and Alderson attribute the transition to postsocialism to
a. a shift in emphasis in the state socialist societies toward the production of
consumer goods and, more generally, toward market socialism
b. deteriorating economic conditions within the state socialist societies and the
external constraints imposed on them by the capitalist world-economy
c. the production of an increasingly large surplus by the state socialist economies
and the desire of lower strata to share in this surplus
Question 2Christopher Chase-Dunn has argued that socialist states within the capitalist worldsystem tend either to be ________ by that system or ________
a. crushed; pulled back into line as capitalist states
b. co-opted; forced into isolation
c. peripheralized; brought into it as core societies
d. colonized; brought into it as semiperipheral societies
Question 3What were scientists trying to discourage with the racial categories included on the census between 1850 and 1920?
a. Immigration
b. Premarital sex
c. Western migration
d. Interracial marriage
Question 4The state socialist societies
a. are genuinely classless as their leaders have suggested
b. have social classes essentially like those found in capitalist societies
c. have social classes but of a sort rather different from those found in capitalism
d. have been so little studied that the question of their possible classlessness cannot
yet be answered
Question 5According to Kornai, one of the major underlying causes of the economic problems faced by the state socialist societies was the
a. emphasis placed on the quality rather than the quantity of goods
b. practice of allowing prices to be determined by consumer demand
c. emphasis placed upon the production of consumer goods
d. practice of bureaucratic planning in the absence of market principles
Question 6According to the author, when they paraded bra- and panty-clad Victoria's Secret models across the TV screen for 30 seconds during the Super Bowl, __________ people turned away from the game to log on to the Victoria's Secret website.
a. 500,000
b. 1 million
c. 10 million
d. very few
Question 7According to the author, the spirit of social science is to
a. develop accurate stereotypes about people.
b. develop accurate generalizations about people.
c. develop understanding without generalizing about people.
d. generalize knowledge about other animals to understand human beings.
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