International bodies such as the World Bank and World Trade Organization are there for the sole purpose of
a. facilitating free economic trade under capitalism.
b. regulating the economies of core and peripheral nations.
c. enforcing U.S. downsizing and outsourcing.
d. ensuring economic monopolies.
Question 2Industrialization has moved the center of ________ from the domestic unit to the workplace and families have become private domestic retreats, particularly for men.
a. socialization
b. production
c. education
d. social control
Question 3In less developed countries, the pace of urban population growth often
a. creates jobs and economic success for the many rural people attracted to these urban areas.
b. outstrips the cities' ability to absorb that growth, leading to illegal settlements lacking infrastructure.
c. leads to a high degree of gentrification and urban renewal.
d. all of the above are correct.
Question 4Employers traditionally have assumed that most families included only one ________, and, as a result, many men received incomes intended to support a family and salaries for women were assumed to be optional.
a. main breadwinner
b. head of household
c. man and woman
d. primary caretaker
Question 5Concentration of the poor in inner cities serves to
a. make it easier for them to find jobs in these smaller areas.
b. isolate them
c. decrease crime rates, since there are few wealthy in the area to serve as crime victims.
d. make the infrastructure of utilities and services more efficient.
Question 6The breadwinner-homemaker pattern never applied to immigrants and racial minorities because ________.
a. their cultural values were different
b. they were denied the opportunities to earn a family wage
c. divorce was more prevalent among these families.
d. women in these families were more likely to have children out of wedlock
Question 7What we think of as the family is a/an ________ that implies a private retreat set apart from society but masks the real relationship between families and the larger society.
a. fiction
b. ideal
c. exaggeration
d. myth
Question 8According to Schwab's article, The Meaning and the Importance of the City, there are many problems associated with large cities, and
a. cities hold great promise for the future.
b. they are ultimately doomed to failure, with most residents fleeing for outlying areas.
c. cities are the most cost-efficient housing arrangement.
d. increasingly fewer people are attracted to them.
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