Soc Chapter 14

________ trade agreements, such as NAFTA, encourage business at a regional or worldwide level.

George lives in fifteenth-century England. He is bound to the land but does not own it. He works the land but must give a portion of his harvest to the landowner. In return, he gets protection from roaming bandits and thieves. George is a:

Karl has been hired to paint a house blue, but he mixes the color wrong, and it turns out purple instead of blue. Under which wage system(s) would he be responsible for paying for new paint?

Because the monetary system is increasingly depersonalized, George Simmel argues that it is now possible to:

According to sociologists Jerry Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson, because workers want to advance in their careers, many avoid taking full advantage of:

At Thanksgiving dinner, college student Janie expresses her dreams to her parents. Her aunt says, "I'm not sure that's realistic, honey!" Janie says, "I'm a postfeminist! That's why I expect to ________."

Some products, such as fitness tracking devices like Fitbit, are economic successes. Because they add value to the overall economy, Adam Davidson refers to them as:

Serena works for a shoemaker in a small shop, doing a variety of tasks. At the end of the week, the shoemaker offers her a choice: She can be paid with cash, or with her choice of a pair of shoes. Serena chooses cash, which confirms Georg Simmel's theory that says ________ is part of a historical evolution of economy that has many advantages.

Adam Smith demonstrated with his pin factory example that:

You are the lord of an estate. During the enclosure movement in Tudor England, what did you likely do with some of your common land?

A system of payment whereby workers are paid a set amount of money not tied to the quality of the raw materials, accidents, or other exigencies in the production process refers to:

In addition to attracting new workers, Ford's payment system:

An honorarium is similar to a:

The rise of large-scale production, the influx of peasants to urban areas to find work, and the rise of a system of wage labor caused the ________ system to become obsolete in favor of a new system of legal currency.

What characterized the "new markets" that are part of globalization?

Globalization in the twenty-first century is characterized by:

Serfs were the lowest class in the feudal system and were bound to the land they worked, yet they were not slaves. They were different from slaves because they could:

Toma is a nineteenth-century peasant who moved to a city to find work. Back in his village, most of Toma's transactions were bartered-swapping an animal for cloth or potatoes for a tool. In the city, monetization governs wage labor, which means that:

Feminist sociologists claim that the family wage is a patriarchal bargain because it implies that:

Which term refers to a legally recognized person who shares many of the rights of a human individual as well as the ability to act as a legal entity by entering into contracts or owning property?

Max Weber said that a person who pursues profit removed from any sense of right and wrong has:

Sarah has a master's degree in disaster relief but hasn't found work in her field. In the last year, she worked as an Uber driver for several months, then sold honey at a farmer's market, and then found three months' work on a temporary contract with a local publishing company. Sarah is not working full-time in her field; rather, she is underemployed in the:

During the agricultural revolution, the enclosure movement caused many former serfs to move to cities in search of work and led to the rise of:

In a capitalist economic system, the price and distribution of goods and services are determined by what?

Adam Smith, the father of liberal economics, determined that groups of individuals pursuing their own self-interest manage to stay intact and not fall into civil strife because individuals:

One good thing about a salary, according to Simmel, is that:

What effect did the agricultural revolution in Europe have on the transition to capitalism? The agricultural revolution in Europe:

In terms of the evolution of payment and exchange, wage labor is more developed than piecework payment because under wage labor:

How did the enclosure movement change the economy in the early Tudor period in England? The enclosure movement:

Offshoring occurs when firms:

According to Adam Smith, the most efficient way to produce something is:

It is sometimes difficult to determine whether large corporations such as the Carlyle Group, or Wall Street overall, are expanding the economy in ways that broaden the economic value available to everyone or just amassing money at other people's expense. Using Adam Davidson's framework, a company that doesn't add value but just rearranges existing dollars for its own benefit is called:

Corporations are considered people because:

The Bell Telephone Company, which for decades was the only provider of telephone service in the United States, was a(n):

At the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century, a massive transition was propelled by the development of new technologies, including:

In the early days of the new monetary system, stockholders were more willing to invest in corporations because of ________, which limits their financial responsibility to whatever they invested in the company.

FBI consultant Robert Hare claimed that in the pursuit of profits for shareholders, corporations exhibit many of the same traits as:

There are two producers of wagon wheels that together are the exclusive providers to a large community. The executives of these companies meet to set minimum prices and production levels, thereby ensuring that they each will make a higher profit than they would in a free market. This is an example of a(n):

Jenny lives in a society in which there is a strong norm against mixing business with pleasure. Work and leisure activities are physically separate, occurring at different times, on different days, at different places, and often with different people. Jenny lives in a ________ society.

One common strategy for attracting the most buyers is:

Barbara Risman equated gender inequality, in the form of marriage, to:

In discussing financial changes that influenced the economic volatility of recent years, Adeel Qalbani describes how commercial banks are mostly ________, but investment banks are mostly ________.

Karl Marx described workers as:

Adam Smith argues that money is inherently social because:

Some people consider corporations to be "psychopathic" because corporations:

Martin decides to start a religious movement of people who both work and worship with intensity. He studies religious history and decides to create a theology that will make people feel insecure about their eternal destiny so that they will work hard in an attempt to prove themselves worthy. Martin's religious movement is an application of whose theory?

How would you describe recent relations between employers and unions? Employers:

Angela is writing a story about a "typical American family." She researches the work lives of the statistically typical family and concludes that her story will feature:

If you are a salaried worker and you miss a day of work, how does your salary change?

In a capitalist economic system, the price and distribution of goods and services are determined by what?

Some critics claim that the Carlyle Group uses insider political knowledge, or ________, to dominate heavily regulated markets.

Georg Simmel saw the development of monetary payment systems as part of a historical evolution leading to:

Under feudalism, lords exchanged land with the vassals in return for what?

What is a major reason unions are on the decline in the United States today?

Offshoring occurs when firms:

With regard to the family wage, women: