Asymmetrical globalization is:

A. the way in which contemporary globalization is equally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups
B. the way in which contemporary globalization is unequally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups
C. the degree to which networks or patterns of social interaction are formally constituted as organizations with specific purposes
D. a process in which the organization of social activities is increasingly less constrained by geographical proximity and national territorial boundaries

Related Mcqs:

Which of the following are impacts of globalization on women? i.Cut backs in state services affect women’s health and employment opportunities ii.Globalization results in the feminization of poverty iii.The changing international division of labour is gendered
A. i
B. ii, iii
C. i, ii, iii
D. i, ii
Globalization involves:
A. a stretching of social, political, and economic activities across political frontiers.
B. a growing magnitude of interconnections in almost every sphere of social existence
C. an accelerating pace of global interactions and processes associated with a deepening enmeshment of the local and the global
D. all of the above
In the first wave, the age of discovery (1450-1850), globalization was:
A. a benign form of cosmopolitan democracy
B. equally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups
C. decisively shaped by European expansion and conquest
D. saw the establishment of the international Convention on the Elimination of Child Labour
Skeptical accounts of globalization dismiss its significance because they argue:
A. by comparison with the period 1870 to 1914 the world is much less globalized economically, politically and culturally
B. the vast bulk of international economic and political activity is concentrated within the group of OECD states
C. globalization is at best a self-serving myth or ideology which reinforces western and particularly US hegemony in world politics
D. all of the above
What characteristic do globalization and terrorism share in common?
A. Both are a current phenomenon
B. both are a recently new phenomenon
C. Both are complex and open to subjective interpretation
D. Both are causes of major transactions of funds internationally
What is globalization according to Waltz?
A. A great opportunity for free trade to expand in the world
B. A fad of the 1990s
C. The new international order
D. A forced that causes states to lose control over their institutions
How is globalization a dystopic absence of order?
A. It lacks order and is anarchical
B. It is a product of historical transitions of power
C. It is a product of new technologies that are not regulated
D. It appears to have negative qualities in abundance, but without any seeming coherence
What is the principal concern of legitimacy in globalization?
A. That authority is shifted to few political leaders in the world
B. That state authority is shifted to MNCs and IGOs, which are not democratically elected
C. That states are becoming more oppressive and losing their legitimacy with their citizens
D. None
Which of the following is an ethical challenge posed by globalization?
A. Defining combatants in wartime
B. Humanitarian intervention
C. Climate change
D. All of the options given are correct
Which of these groups welcomes the free trade that comes with globalization?
A. workers in industrialized countries
B. human rights NGOs
C. environmental groups
D. None of the answers is correct