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Midterm Exam for The Contemporary World
Covers the following topic/s: Midterm FinalsThe items here (45 item) requires Knowledge and Comprehension learning skills.
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Questions and Answers
- 1.
Multiple Choice: Who is not an expert when it comes to Globalization
- A.
Appadurai
- B.
Sreberny-Mohammadi
- C.
Martin-Barbero
- D.
Apaddurai
Correct Answer
D. Apaddurai -
- 2.
Multiple Choice: Who suggested to question the validity that Westernization may or may not be equivalent to Globalization?
- A.
Appadurai
- B.
Sreberny-Mohammadi
- C.
Martin-Barbero
- D.
Apaddurai
Correct Answer
A. Appadurai -
- 3.
Multiple Choice: The Five Scapes are more associated with?
- A.
Appadurai
- B.
Sreberny-Mohammadi
- C.
Martin-Barbero
- D.
Apaddurai
Correct Answer
A. Appadurai -
- 4.
Multiple Choice: Who implied that Globalization revolves around cultural dependency and hegemony?
- A.
Appadurai
- B.
Sreberny-Mohammadi
- C.
Martin-Barbero
- D.
Sneberny-Mohamaddi
Correct Answer
B. Sreberny-Mohammadi -
- 5.
Multiple Choice: Who enlisted the conflicts and contradictions of global media (globalization) and how it has either controlled or revitalized local identities?
- A.
Appadurai
- B.
Sreberny-Mohammadi
- C.
Martin-Barbero
- D.
Straubhaar
Correct Answer
B. Sreberny-Mohammadi -
- 6.
Multiple Choice: Globalization is the elision/interpolation of various cultures to creating a new one.
- A.
Appadurai
- B.
Sreberny-Mohammadi
- C.
Martin-Barbero
- D.
Richard Khan
Correct Answer
B. Sreberny-Mohammadi -
- 7.
Multiple Choice: Who is the prominent professor/cultural politics consultant for UNESCO who supported Sreberny-Mohammadi's concept of Globalization?
- A.
Appadurai
- B.
Sreberny-Mohammadi
- C.
Martin-Barbero
- D.
Anthony Stark Sr.
Correct Answer
C. Martin-Barbero -
- 8.
Multiple Choice: Who suggested to Adapt What Is In and Retain What Should Be?
- A.
Appadurai
- B.
Sreberny-Mohammadi
- C.
Martin-Barbero
- D.
Anthony Stark Jr.
Correct Answer
C. Martin-Barbero -
- 9.
Multiple Choice: Who lectured that with any aspect of pushing for globalization, there will always be discontinuity?
- A.
Appadurai
- B.
Sreberny-Mohammadi
- C.
Martin-Barbero
- D.
Anthony Stark Jr.
Correct Answer
C. Martin-Barbero -
- 10.
TRUE OF FALSE: Martin-Barbero supported Sreberny-Mohammadi's concept of Globalization
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
- 11.
TRUE OF FALSE: Discontinuity with regards to globalization is defined as the lack of cohesion
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
- 12.
TRUE OF FALSE: Sreberny-Mohammadi conceptualized The Layer of Identity
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
B. False -
- 13.
TRUE OF FALSE: Martin-Barbero is a world-renowned expert on the cultural dynamics of globalization, having authored numerous books and scholarly articles. He was also a Provost and Senior VPAA at The New School in NYC
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
B. False -
- 14.
Identification: Scape defined as the landscape of persons who constitute the shifting world in which people live
Correct Answer
ethnoscape - 15.
Identification: Scape defined as the global configuration of technologies moving at high speeds across previously impermeable borders
Correct Answer
technoscape - 16.
Identification: Scape defined as where the global grid of currency speculation and capital transfer happen
Correct Answer
financescape - 17.
Identification: Scape that consists of the distribution of the capabilities to produce and disseminate information and the large complex repertoire of images and narratives generated by these capabilities
Correct Answer
mediascape - 18.
Identification: Scape that cover ideologies of states and counter-ideologies of movements, around which nation-states have organized their political cultures.
Correct Answer
ideoscape - 19.
Multiple Choice: Who is not an expert when it comes to Globalization
- A.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
- B.
Joseph Straubhaar
- C.
Richard Kahn
- D.
Arjay Apaddurai
Correct Answer
D. Arjay Apaddurai -
- 20.
Multiple Choice: He is a Mellichamp professor of Global Studies and Sociology of the University of California.
- A.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
- B.
Joseph Straubhaar
- C.
Richard Kahn
- D.
Douglas Kellner
Correct Answer
A. Jan Nederveen Pieterse -
- 21.
Multiple Choice: He specializes in globalization, development studies and cultural studies and cultural hybridity.
- A.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
- B.
Joseph Straubhaar
- C.
Richard Kahn
- D.
Douglas Kellner
Correct Answer
A. Jan Nederveen Pieterse -
- 22.
Multiple Choice: His interests are global media and cultural theory, media and migration, digital media and the digital divide.
- A.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
- B.
Joseph Straubhaar
- C.
Richard Kahn
- D.
Douglas Kellner
Correct Answer
B. Joseph Straubhaar -
- 23.
Multiple Choice: He was the Director of the Center for Brazilian Studies within the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies.
- A.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
- B.
Joseph Straubhaar
- C.
Richard Kahn
- D.
Douglas Kellner
Correct Answer
B. Joseph Straubhaar -
- 24.
Multiple Choice: He is an anarchist educator whose primary interests are in researching the history of social movements as pedagogical generative forces in society.
- A.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
- B.
Joseph Straubhaar
- C.
Richard Kahn
- D.
Douglas Kellner
Correct Answer
C. Richard Kahn -
- 25.
Multiple Choice: He is a Professor, Philosophy of Education Chair, Social Sciences and Comparative Education at UCLA.
- A.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
- B.
Joseph Straubhaar
- C.
Richard Kahn
- D.
Douglas Kellner
Correct Answer
D. Douglas Kellner -
- 26.
Multiple Choice: He suggested that Globalization IS Hybridization
- A.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
- B.
Joseph Straubhaar
- C.
Richard Kahn
- D.
Douglas Kellner
Correct Answer
A. Jan Nederveen Pieterse -
- 27.
Multiple Choice: His concept of Globalization is the same as Sreberny-Mohammadi's
- A.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
- B.
Joseph Straubhaar
- C.
Richard Kahn
- D.
Douglas Kellner
Correct Answer
A. Jan Nederveen Pieterse -
- 28.
TRUE OF FALSE: Hybridity is a cross between two separate races or cultures.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
- 29.
TRUE OF FALSE: Cultural Homogenization = Cultural Hybridity
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
- 30.
TRUE OF FALSE: Cultural Heterogenization = Cultural Hybridity
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
B. False -
- 31.
TRUE OF FALSE: Discontinuity with regards to globalization is defined as the lack of cohesion
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
- 32.
Identification: It is the blending of diverse cultures or traditions.
Correct Answer
hybridism - 33.
Identification: It is the corollary of modernity
Correct Answer
globalization - 34.
Identification: Most commonly referred to content available on-demand through the Internet
Correct Answer
New Media - 35.
Fill in the Blank: Global Divide is known as the socio-economic and political division that exists between the wealthy developed countries. It is also known as ________
Correct Answer
north-south divide - 36.
Multiple Choice: These are common examples of new media except one...
- A.
Blogs
- B.
Wikis
- C.
Dating sites
- D.
Newspapers
Correct Answer
D. Newspapers -
- 37.
Identification: It is made up of Africa, Latin America and developing Asia including the Middle East.
Correct Answer
Global South - 38.
Identification: Comprised of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Outermost regions of European Union and developed parts of Asia.
Correct Answer
Global North - 39.
Fill in the Blank: The ________ becomes synonymous with economic development and industrialization.
Correct Answer
North, Global North - 40.
Fill in the Blank: According to World Bank and IMF the countries under Global North are described as ________ and ________.
Correct Answer
high-income
advanced economies - 41.
Fill in the Blank: A clash of civilization is the main ________ in the post-cold world war.
Correct Answer
conflict - 42.
Identification: Dominant ideology of colonialism and the logic that shaped the birth of the international order.
Correct Answer
civilization discourse - 43.
Identification: Outlined historical progress in terms of a society’s capacity to produce and consume material goods.
Correct Answer
Modernization Theory - 44.
Fill in the Blank: Religion: Latin ________ or bond between God and man.”
Correct Answer
religare - 45.
Identification: Is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems and world views that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and moral values
Correct Answer
religion
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