Introduction to Sociology

Question 28 Answer: do not feel connected to their work
Marx thought that factory labor, which often segmented work into isolated, repetitive tasks on an assembly line, cut workers off from the products and effects of their labor.
Question 29 Answer: get rich while workers stay poor.
A conflict theorist would examine how capital steadily accrues for factory owners while factory workers steadily increase productivity yet remain consistently poor.
Question 30 Answer: after work, Pat, a janitor, feels more comfortable eating in a truck stop than a French restaurant.
A symbolic interactionist would say the janitor understands the appropriateness of a truck stop to his status based on his daily interactions with similarly situated class peers.
Question 31 Answer: conflict theory Conflict theory focuses on the creation and reproduction of class, race, gender, and other forms of inequality and views stratification as something to be identified and eliminated.
Question 32 Answer: its inherent ethnocentric, specifically Eurocentric bias Modernization theory assumes that peripheral and semi-peripheral nations should value the same priorities that core nations, largely concentrated in Europe, do.
Question 33 Answer: That previously low-income nations such as China have successfully developed their economies and can no longer be classified as dependent on core nations. The theory fails to fully credit national advancement to viable programs that promote industrialization and the adoption of modern technologies.
Question 34 Answer: modernization theory Such a perspective examines the advantages of both technological advancements and aspirations as well as changing attitudes toward work.
Question 35 Answer: dependency theorist
This theory examines how less powerful nations are exploited by more powerful nations for economic benefit.
Question 36 Answer: core nations exploit peripheral nations.
This theory examines the ways that stable, industrially advanced, economically powerful core nation might trap a peripheral nation in a cycle of dependency.