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Chapter 10 Global Inequality

Chapter 10 Global Inequality

Q 1.In recent times, scholars have been trying to sort out why the countries on the continent of Africa, as a whole, have trouble competing to today's global, capitalist economy. While an answer to this question is complex and carries with it many ambiguities, most scholars point to European colonialism as a key to understanding the current state of Africa. A sociologist studying this topic, would ascribe to which theoretical paradigm? 2.Immanuel Wallerstein's classification of nations uses which set of terms? 3.Which statement would you find in the analysis of poverty by Neckerman and Torche? 4.Which continent has the largest number of people living in poverty in the world? 5.In the United States, where outsourcing is almost always addressed negatively, companies still get away with outsourcing. How do they do this?

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1.Conflict theory 2.core nation, peripheral nation, semi-peripheral nation 3.Once poverty has entered a geographic location, it is very difficult to get rid of. 4.Asia 5.Americans want lower prices for their consumable products, and the only way for companies to deliver those low prices is to outsource the work to cheaper laborers.