By the year 2020 it is projected that less than 2 percent of the entire global labor force will be engaged in ?
A. farming
B. service jobs
C. factory work
D. high-tech jobs
What is the concept used by Karl Marx to explain workers loss of control over their labor power in capitalist societies ?
A. anomie
B. pauperization
C. de-skilling
D. alienation
In the developed countries more people are employed in the service sector than manufacturing with a tiny percentage working in agriculture Globally which sector now employs the fewest people ?
A. services
B. industrial manufacture
C. agriculture
D. none of the above
Which statement below most accurately describes the global unemployment rate ?
A. the unemployment rate has decreased significantly since the 1970s
B. the unemployment rate remains historically low
C. the unemployment rate remains historically high
D. the unemployment rate in not known
Occupational gender segregation is used to explain ?
A. the belief that women control the private sphere
B. women increasing labor market participation
C. the allocation of men and women to different types of job
D. relations between men and women in the workplace
Which of these key early figures in sociology had an interest in issues of labor and the economy ?
A. Karl Marx
B. Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim
C. Karl Marx and Max Weber
D. All three of them
Two basic types of economic systems distinguish contemporary industrial societies ?
A. capitalism and communism
B. capitalism and socialism
C. socialism and communism
D. capitalism and dictatorships
The principle of laissez-faire was expounded and endorsed by the British economist ?
A. John Maynard Keynes
B. Adam Smith
C. Paul Samuelson
D. Arthur Scargill
Which sociological perspective points out that while pure monopolies are not a basic element of the economy of the United States competition is much more restricted than one might expect in what is called a free enterprise system ?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. labeling theory
There are three basic sources of power within any political system ?
A. force influence and authority
B. force influence and democracy
C. force legitimacy and charisma
D. influence charisma and bureaucracy
