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1) A belief, understood as a cultural element ...
a) It is impossible to prove scientifically
b) It is not necessary that it has been scientifically proven
c) It has never been scientifically proven
2) In relation to the functional paradigm, we can NOT say that ...
a) Conceives society as a self-regulated system, capable of returning to equilibrium in the face of
dysfunctions or social crises.
b) Analyze mainly how societies change from their structural transformation processes
c) It would have a rather conservative character, while paying excessive attention to order and
stability.
3) For Ogburn, cultural lag supposes ...
a) Tensions within the culture due to incoherence of some elements with others
b) A permanent conflict between the forces of change and the conservative forces
c) A harmonious situation where cultural elements fit in different ways
4) Wright Mills's sociological imagination refers to ...
a) Having the ability to imagine social scenarios in the near future to better understand the present
b) Have the ability to imagine how sociologists study society in order to go in search of the truth
c) Have the ability to understand how people's lives interact with history and social structures
5) Which of the features is NOT typical of a sociological perspective?
a) See what is general in what is particular
b) See what is normal in what is strange
c) See the other side of social reality as considered normal
6) Which of these elements is NOT an example of material culture?
a) The lid of a garbage can
b) A classical music CD
c) All are examples of material culture
7) The explanation of a phenomenon according to the cultural parameters of the society in which it
occurs, involves an interaction ...
a) Etic
b) Emic
c) All the previous ones
8) The thesis of intercultural dialogue presupposes that the approximation of some cultures to
others must be done starting from ...
a) An ethical interpretation
b) An emic interpretation
c) An ethnocentric interpretation
9) According to Grasci, cultural hegemony
a) Replaces repressive mechanisms with conviction mechanisms
b) It is always at the service of the dominant group with greater economic capacity
c) It implies a cultural uniformity typical of more advanced societies
10) Consider that the greater presence of African-American players in the NBA is due to the greater
genetic predisposition of African-Americans by sports instead of academic tasks supposes ...
a) A functionalist interpretation
b) A naturalistic fallacy
c) A cultural interpretation of an ethical nature
11) Mores are ...
a) Customs and traditions of high moral content
b) Explicit or implicit rules of moral content
c) Celebrations designed to raise collective morale
12) According to the hypothesis of Sapir-Worf it is said of the language that ...
a) Language is not useful for cultural reproduction
b) The language expresses the mentality of a people
c) Language is performative, that is, shapes reality
13) What is the relationship of the human being with language, according to the hypothesis of
Sapir-Worf?
a) The language faithfully reflects the physical reality
b) We perceive reality according to our linguistic structures
c) It is reality that creates our linguistic structures
14) Cultural universals, such as the family, are ...
a) Structures or social phenomena that are found in all cultures, being exactly the same in both
b) Structures or social phenomena that are found in all cultures, being equally functional in all of
them
c) Structures or social phenomena that are found in all cultures, with the same function, although
different form
15) It is NOT true that the functionalist paradigm ...
a) Investigate how the social structure contributes to the order and stability of the system
b) It is based mainly on the theoretical contributions of Emile Durkheim
c) It is an eminently micro sociological approach
16) The paradigm of conflict ...
a) Imagine society as an entity where individuals continuously fight for limited and scarce
resources
b) It is an eminently micro sociological approach
c) Considers that society has an imbalance between social groups
17) The people who share an ethnic group are those who ...
a) They share a common genetic inheritance, such as skin color
b) They share the same nationality, as being Congolese
c) Share the same cultural heritage, as the Quechua language
18) Social stratification shapes social groups based on ...
a) Unequal access to resources
b) Merits and personal effort
c) Unequal access to wealth
19) Which of these elements is an example of material culture?
a) A forest of enzymes
b) A flower garden in an urban public park
c) None of the above
20) Which of the following statements regarding the stratification is NOT true?
a) Reflects individual differences
b) Generate the shared identity
c) It is maintained because it is part of the beliefs and ideologies
21) What is the delimiting criterion of the classes according to Marx?
a) The detention or not of heritage and wealth
b) Economic inequality based on the income received
c) None of the above
22) The function of ideologies according to Plato is ...
a) Legitimizing inequalities
b) delegitimize inequalities
c) Change the established political order
23) For Silvia Walby, gender relations should be understood
a) As a stratification system of ancestral origin
b) As a product of the patriarchy of industrial societies
c) As an inequality relation caused by biological reasons
24) Which of the following is NOT a system of social stratification?
a) The meritocratic system
b) The capitalist productive system
c) The class system
25) For Karl Marx, the stratification is based
a) The division between bourgeois and workers
b) The division between masters and slaves
c) The division between owners and workers
26) The theory of comparative advantage holds that ...
a) Commercial exchange between countries increases the consumption of merchandise
b) Specializing in the production of a good for the exchange is advantageous
c) All the previous ones
27) Generalize in a rigid and irrational way a valuation about a whole category of people, it is called
...
a) Racism
b) Stereotype
c) Prejudice
28) Which of the following options is a symbol?
a) Close the hand with the index finger facing up
b) A path in the middle of the forest
c) All the previous ones
29) Social stratification systems are perpetuated by ...
a) Upward social mobility
b) Class consciousness
c) Beliefs and ideologies
30) For Davis and Moore, social inequality was ...
a) Dysfunctional for social equilibrium
b) Positive for the social order of the system
c) Necessary for the dominant classes to maintain their privileges
31) The path of intercultural dialogue does NOT consist of ...
a) A total alignment with the thesis of cultural relativism
b) A rejection of ethnocentric attitudes
c) Put prohibitive limitations on certain cultural traditions
32) Social stratification based on status, according to Weber shares an inequality in ...
a) The social position held based on the privileges of power
b) The social position held based on the socioeconomic situation
c) The social position held based on the prestige of the group
33) According to classical liberal thought, the invisible hand of the market is based on ...
a) The market must operate without any regulatory regulations
b) The effects of the different individual interests in the economy end up in favor of the general
interest
c) The state establishes a regulation regulating the market to ensure its proper functioning and the
subsequent creation of wealth
34) The lack of industrialization in the countries of the South is historically due ...
a) The proliferation of wars and internal conflicts
b) The obstacles to the development of local crafts in times of colonization
c) To the establishment of the primary specialization model, after independence
35) Which of the following processes happens in Modernity according to Weber?
a) Disenchantment of the world
b) Absolute loss of faith in traditional religions
c) De-bureaucratization of institutions
36) They are part of the values of classical liberal capitalism ...
a) The consumerism of goods and services
b) Austerity in spending
c) All the previous ones
37) In the ethics of classic liberal capitalism, the correct attitude of a businessman against the
benefit ...
a) It means saving the most part to reinvest it in business expansion
b) It means saving most of it, accumulating it with unforeseen expenses
c) It involves distributing a good part among the workers, to motivate them and encourage their
productivity
38) The so-called "organic solidarity" is typical of societies characterized by ...
a) Provide a collective conscience that is imposed on individuals
b) Present a marked social division of labor
c) Present a very strong solidarity among its members
39) What kind of political regime is typical of classical liberalism?
a) A parliamentary suffrage based on male universal suffrage
b) A parliamentary suffrage based on comprehensive universal suffrage
c) A parliamentary suffrage based on census suffrage
40) Which of the following statements regarding classic free capitalism is NOT true?
a) It basically defends the free market with minimal interference by the State
b) Conceives the State as an instrument basically aimed at the defense of private property and
guarantee public order
c) It widely develops the regulation of labor contracts, in order to balance and thus promote
industrial relations of an industrial nature
41) Which of the following statements about social rights is FALSE?
a) They require the intervention of the state to be implemented
b) They do not depend on the economic situation of a country
c) The degree of recognition of the same in each individual varies depending on their personal
situation with respect to the rest of society's individuals
42) By anti-cyclical Keynesian policies we understand ...
a) The state increases social aid to reduce the cycle of poverty
b) The state creates employment based on direct investments, in times of crisis
c) The state reduces taxes in times of economic expansion
43) What has the welfare state NOT achieved?
a) Increase social cohesion
b) Multiply the middle classes
c) Eradicate poverty
44) In the Welfare State they originate in the socialist tradition ...
a) Civil and political rights
b) Economic and social rights
c) All the previous ones
45) Traditional society is characterized by ...
a) Disenchantment of the world
b) A strong associative feeling of belonging
c) The permanence of the guide institutions
46) The concept of stratification defined by ...
a) High inflation, together with low economic growth
b) The stagnation of inflation at a stable rate that slows economic growth
c) The price inflation triggered by the intervention of the State
47) It is NOT characteristic of the welfare state ...
a) Demercantize basic social services
b) Accelerate the economy, taking advantage of the moments of growth
c) Stop the economic expansion of the country, in good time
48) Which of the following characteristics is NOT typical of a traditional society?
a) They use mythical narrations as sources of attribution of meaning
b) They defend the autonomy of the people within the group
c) A strong feeling of collective belonging takes root in all individuals
49) The Welfare State ...
a) Routinalize the inevitable labor conflicts
b) Promotes social concentration among the main economic agents
c) All the previous ones
50) In the markets of the welfare state driven by the Christian Democrat governments
(conservatives) it is characteristic ...
a) A selective but wide coverage, focused on the SS
b) Universal and especially extensive coverage
c) Selective coverage, limited to giving assistance to situations of poverty
51) A characteristic of the Social State of Law is ...
a) Assume extensive regulation in the workplace
b) Assume the representative parliamentary system implemented by the classic
c) Assume positive freedom, instead of negative freedom
52) In the Welfare State they originate in the liberal tradition ...
a) Civil and political rights
b) Economic and social rights
c) National rights
53) What is meant by "naturalistic fallacy"?
a) Confusing a behavior of cultural origin with behavior of biological origin
b) Consider that cultural forms are part of human nature
c) Consider that genetics influences the human being
54) Society of the nineteenth century ...
a) Believe in the eternal return, not linear time
b) Believe in progress
c) Base knowledge in the tradition
55) The welfare state ...
a) Promotes equal opportunities
b) Promotes individual freedom
c) All the previous ones
56) Which of the following statements about social rights is false?
a) They require market intervention to be implemented
b) They do not depend on the economic situation of a country
c) The degree of recognition of each one varies according to the degrees reached by others, within a
same society
57) Which of the following options is a symbol?
a) A flag
b) Shaking hands
c) All the previous ones
58) When technological advances allow us to do things that scandalize most of society, generating a
conflict between them that would allow them and those that would prohibit them, we are facing ...
a) A conflict manifested due to a clear economic inequality
b) A social dysfunction
c) A cultural gap
59) What socialist thinker owes the idea of industrial colonies?
a) Owen
b) Engels
c) Charles Fourier
60) According to Marx, the economic and production relations that condemn the working class to
exploitation and its constant impoverishment are reflected ...
a) In the appropriation by the employer of most of the added value of the product, generated by the
worker in the production process.
b) In the consideration of the labor force as another commodity, subject therefore to a value of
change dependent on supply and demand.
c) All the previous ones.
61) A characteristic of the Social State of Law is ...
d) Assume economic and social rights, as advocated by socialism
e) Assume the meritocracy exactly like classical liberalism
f) To assume the mechanisms of popular democracy proposed by the Socialists
62) Values, in the sociological sense of the term, behave ...
a) Judgments about what is desirable or undesirable, of a universal nature
b) Judgments about the desirable or undesirable, which vary according to the culture
c) Judgments about the desirable or undesirable, that we find only in the most evolved cultures
63) One of the following characteristics is NOT typical of Postmodernity
a) Individual projection in the great collective struggles
b) Extreme inconsistency volubility of the values
c) Growth of interest in spiritual matters
64) One of the factors that will bring Modernity into crisis is ...
a) The great influence of the media
b) The achievement of mass consumption in Western society
c) Technological progress in general
65) Which of the following characteristics is NOT typical of a modern society?
a) Individuals stand in solidarity with each other and fight together for a fairer society
b) Faith in traditional religions is totally lost
c) The duty of loyalty to the reference groups weakens
66) One of the consequences of advancing the process of individualization has been ...
a) The progressive institutionalization of society
b) The personalization (or questioning) of one's life
c) The link of the individual to great collective goals
67) Postmoralism has as a consequence ...
a) The non-viability of any consensus that is not of minimum ethics
b) The greater lack of responsibility and non-assumption of duties in some individuals
c) All the previous ones
68) A postmodern society is characterized by individuals who tend to ...
a) Confront their opinions and defend them in a respectful dialogue with the other interlocutors
b) Imposing self-centered opinions on others
c) Give up the discussion, tolerating diversity from mutual influence
69) The Marxist concept of alienation has nothing to do with ...
a) The loss of a sense of work as a human activity, due to the fragmentation of the production
process.
b) The surplus value produced by the worker, as this is entirely appropriate for the employer.
c) The separation of the worker from the product of his work, as this is entirely appropriate for the
employer.
70) The privatization of morality is given ...
a) In traditional societies
b) In modern society
c) In Protestant religions
71) The planned economy was implemented through ...
a) The centralization of the production and distribution of basic necessities by the State.
b) A market strongly regulated and controlled by the State.
c) The systematic planning of agricultural and industrial production, for equal distribution in a
market intervened by the State.
72) By the Marxist term "dictatorship of the proletariat" we must understand ...
a) The final form of socialist government, where the leading role is reserved exclusively to the
Communist Party.
b) The form of government prior to the establishment of a communist society, where the
Communist Party holds the leading role of the State.
c) The definitive form of government of the communist society, where the State is led by the
Communist Party and the soviets.
73) Which of the following postulates do NOT originate in socialist thought?
a) Equality before the law.
b) The collectivization of lands and factories.
c) The dictatorship of the proletariat.
74) Enlightened thinkers are characterized by ...
a) Their aversion to community relations due to their emotional ties
b) Its critical position with loose and impersonal ties between individuals
c) His rediscovery of the community
75) Which of the following statements related to Karl Marx's thought is true?
a) True social changes are based on changes in the world of ideas.
b) True social changes are based on a cultural change that affects the behavior of people.
c) True social changes are based on changes in the techno-economic structures of societies.
76) According to Gil-Calvo's reading, in social rights ...
a) The state is the only institution publicly responsible for procuring them
b) The state must prevent any public interference, because they are private rights
c) The state and civil society are equally responsible for addressing them
77) It is characteristic of the Welfare State ...
a) The market economy not regulated by the State
b) The economy planned by the State
c) The market economy regulated by the State
78) In traditional society, the meaning of existence is attributed to texts such as ...
a) The works of the philosophers of classical Greece
b) The ancestral mythical legends
c) None of the above
79) Which of the following countries present a less intense regulation of the labor market,
according to the reading of Esping-Andersen?
a) to France
b) Norway
c) Great Britain
80) The liberal welfare model, according to Esping-Andersen's reading, is ...
a) Residual
b) Universal
c) Familiar
81) We can say that the social democratic welfare model has historically been characterized by ...
a) Social protection based on benefits directed to the family unit
b) De-commodification of private welfare services
c) None of the above
82) The myth of Prometheus reflects ...
a) The devotion of traditional society to mythical narrations
b) The sacrifice of modern man for the emancipation of Humanity
c) The courage and loyalty of the hero, qualities that are lost with Modernity
83) In traditional society we find ...
a) The distinction between the sacred and the profane
b) The fusion of the sacred and profane
c) The secularization of the profane
84) Say which of the following elements is NOT an instrument of the Keynesian Welfare State for
the control of economic cycles and their effects:
a) The coverage of basic services for citizens, such as education or health
b) The regulation of interest rates
c) The development of policies aimed at full employment
85) Among the enlightened thinkers is valued especially ...
a) The reason
b) The instruction
c) All the previous ones
86) In the traditional society the biographies of people are ...
a) Induced
b) Autonomous
c) Collectives
87) Which of the following statements is NOT true?
a) Modern and postmodern societies use technology and science to achieve more economic
development
b) The postmodern society is a society where the secularization of modern society is accentuated in
a very remarkable way in all fields
c) Both modern and postmodern society value the autonomy of the individual
88) The phenomenon of the liquid society is associated with ...
a) Extremely emotional beings, who adapt to changing circumstances
b) Extremely fast life rhythms, to adapt to circumstances that change faster and faster
c) Weak values and convictions, very adaptable to changing circumstances
89) A clearly postmodern culture ...
a) Reject magic and all superstition
b) Subject rationality to emotionality
c) All of the above are correct
90) A line of continuity between Modernity and Postmodernity is ...
a) Faith in progress
b) Individualism
c) Postmodernism
91) For a modern neo,
a) We should return to traditional institutions: family, church, homeland ...
b) We should reconcile the individual values with the collective values
c) We should live in the present enjoying it sim complex
92) Of the elective biographies we say that ...
a) They are biographies consisting in that each individual chooses which image he wants to have
b) They are biographies of risk, because of the uncertainty of the elections
c) They are biographies that are based on the same criteria of choice
93) One of the factors that will bring Modernity into crisis is ...
a) The greater perception of the risks inherent in techno-scientific activities
b) The persistence of consumer crises in the capitalist economic system
c) The achievement of mass consumption in Western society
94) One of the main features of secularization is ...
a) The substitution of religion for superstitions
b) The loss of influence of religion in everyday lives
c) The loss of influence of politics in religious institutions
95) Primary specialization supposes ...
a) That the countries of the North specialize in the production of primary goods
b) The specialization in manufactured products by the countries of the South
c) The specialization of the countries of the South in supplying raw materials
96) It is typical of Modernity to aim to develop ...
a) An asocial individualism
b) An egocentric individualism
c) A committed individualism
97) One of the main Lutheran contributions was:
a) The idea of sacralization of vocation and work
b) The doctrine of predestination and seeing earthly success as a sign of salvation
c) The attainment of salvation through prayer and penance
98) One of the consequences of the progress of the process of individualization has been ...
a) The appearance of induced biographies
b) The crisis of collective projects
c) The progressive institutionalization of society
99) The main feature of Modernity found in the Delacroix painting "Freedom guiding the people" is
in the fact that ...
a) The figure of a woman appears at the head of a political revolt
b) An appeal is made to the people to free themselves from tyrannies
c) Collective solidarity is combined with individuality in the rebellious mass
100) The re-enchantment of the world supposes ...
a) The recovery of faith and the practice of historical religions, such as Christianity
b) The personalized combination of traits characteristic of exotic religions and / or esoteric beliefs
c) The growth of interest in a new spirituality
101) What phenomenon of postmodernity exemplifies the so-called "Peter Pan Syndrome"?
a) Postmoralist dis-responsibility
b) The cult of the body
c) All the previous ones
102) The bourgeoisie, for Karl Marx ...
a) It has had a negative historical role in all fields.
b) It has advanced the productive forces as never before and has liberated us from the enslaving
yoke of nature and feudalism.
c) It has favored economic growth and with it the prosperity of the working class.
103) What value is widely promoted by Marxist socialism?
a) Solidarity
b) The culture of effort.
c) All the previous ones
104) What intellectual of socialist ideas wrote the novel "Rebellion on the farm" to denounce the
fraud of Stalinism and the corruption of socialist principles in the Soviet Union?
a) George Orwell
b) Leon Trotski
c) Ernest Hemingway
105) To what socialist thinker is the idea of the phalansteries due?
a) Robert Owen
b) Charles Fourier
c) Friedrich Engels
106) Which of the following characteristics is NOT typical of Postmodernity?
a) The playful presentism
b) The rise of religions a la carte
c) Consistency of convictions
107) The postmodern phenomenon of the "fragmented individual" is a consequence of ...
a) The predominance of emotions over reason
b) Self-centered individualism
c) Liquid ideas and values
108) By postmoralism we understand ...
a) The rise of immorality in Postmodernity
b) The disappearance of all moral sense
c) The delegitimization of externally imposed moral duty
109) These are tendencies of Postmodernity ...
a) The re-enchantment of the world
b) Consumerism
c) All the previous ones
110) According to a postmodern, the most appropriate symbol of Modernity is ...
a) The myth of Narcissus
b) The myth of Sisyphus
c) The myth of Prometheus
111) According to the reading of Gil-Calvo, in individual rights (civil and political) and social rights
are distinguished because the latter ...
a) Are rights that oblige the State to intervene to procure them
b) They are private rights that immunize against public interference
c) Are rights that must always be protected by civil society
112) The conservative (or Christian Democrat) Welfare State model according to EspingAndersen's reading is ...
a) Residual
b) Universal
c) Familiar
113) Which of the following countries presents a less intense regulation of the labor market,
according to the reading of Esping-Andersen?
a) to Canada
b) Sweden
c) Germany
114) We can say that the Social Democratic Welfare model tends to ...
a) Universalization and familiarization
b) Universalization and defamiliarization
c) None of the above
115) The countries of the G-77, at the time called the Third World, are ...
a) Countries that are characterized and reach political and economic independence, all of them,
during the 20th century
b) Countries that, when they become independent, decide, at the beginning, not to align themselves
with any of the two opposing blocs in the so-called Cold War
c) All the previous ones
116) For Marx the supposed meritocracy of the capitalist system is unreal since ...
a) The biographical trajectories are conditioned by the origin of the class.
b) It is not true that all individuals have equal opportunities.
c) All the previous ones.
117) According to Weber, the Calvinist doctrine of predestination influenced societies of Protestant
majority ...
a) Promoting a more egalitarian and supportive attitude, by harshly criticizing capitalism for its
individualistic and selfish excesses
b) Promoting a less materialistic attitude, with a lower affection to money and more inclined to do
charitable works
c) Promoting dedication to work and reinvestment of the benefit, seeking maximum benefit for the
individual
118) According to the thesis of the classical liberals ...
a) Among human beings there does not have to be equality, since we are all born unequal
b) Among human beings, there must not be legal equality and equality of resources
c) None of the above
119) The concept of popular sovereignty ...
a) It is implemented, during classical liberalism, by a census suffrage
b) It is a concept advocated by Rousseau, that classical liberalism ignores
c) None of the above
120) The modern state ...
a) Appears during the Old Regime, in full feudal economy and as a consequence of the power that
monarchs reach
b) Appears with the liberal revolutions, and consists of a State that interferes as little as possible in
the market economy
c) It does not arise until a fully democratic parliamentary system is developed, based on
comprehensive universal suffrage
121) Which of the following statements regarding classical liberal capitalism is NOT true?
a) It supposes an economy based on the free market and without any regulatory regulations
b) Substitute monarchical regimes for an undemocratic parliamentary system
c) Establishes laws to prevent a company from reaching a position of absolute dominance of the
market
122) One of the historical causes of underdevelopment in the countries of the South has been ...
a) The elimination of local crafts by the countries of the North
b) Industrialization imposed by the countries of the North
c) The creation of infrastructures by the countries of the North
123) One of the causes of the bankruptcy of specialization to the countries of the South is ...
a) The loss of the competitiveness of the industry of the countries of the South
b) The creation of infrastructures by the countries of the North
c) The increase in production of raw materials
124) The impact of the democratic transition in the countries of the South ...
a) The shortening of the phases of the demographic transition
b) A decrease in mortality more slowly than in the countries of the North
c) The lengthening of the transition phases and therefore an unsustainable population growth
125) The period prior to the demographic transition phases is characterized by ...
a) Low demographic pressure with high birth and high mortality
b) High demographic pressure with low birth rates and low mortality
c) None of the above
126) Primary specialization means ...
a) The production of export-oriented raw materials to the North
b) The specialization of the countries of the South in a single primary product
c) The supply of manufactures by the South to the countries of the North
127) Which of the following obstacles to development is due only to internal causes of the countries
of the South, without any influence on the part of the countries of the North?
a) The inability to replicate state-of-the-art technologies
b) The proliferation of ethnic civil wars
c) None of the above
128) The growth of the countries of East Asia has been possible thanks to ...
a) The massive liberalization of exports and imports
b) A policy of high tariffs on imports
c) A policy of gradual reduction of exports
129) Which of the following phenomena has NOT harmed the countries of the South?
a) The consumerism of manufactured products in the countries of the North
b) The increase in the production of primary goods
c) Tariff relations between the countries of the South and the North
130) Which of the following phenomena has NOT hurt the countries of the South?
a) The fall in prices of primary goods in the international market
b) The appearance of transgenic products
c) None of the above
131) Which of the following statements DOES NOT involve primary specialization?
a) Ceiling in the demand for raw materials by the countries of the North
b) Unfavorable evolution of prices of raw materials
c) Appearance of artificial substitutes of raw materials from the countries of the South
132) The phenomenon of the liquid society is associated with ...
a) Extremely emotional beings, who adapt to changing circumstances
b) extremely fast life rhythms, to adapt to circumstances that change more and more rapidly
c) Weak values and convictions, very adaptable to changing circumstances
133) The Marxist concept of alienation has to do with ...
a) The separation of the worker from the product of his work, as this is entirely appropriate for the
employer.
b) The surplus value produced by the worker, as this is entirely appropriate for the employer.
c) The situation of constant impoverishment and desperation that results in the working class being
subjected to wages below the subsistence level.
134) The concept of positive freedom DOES NOT involve ...
a) Civil rights.
b) Political rights.
c) All the previous ones.
135) The concept of historical materialism assumes that ...
a) The class struggle is and has always been a universal law of history.
b) Economic structures prevail over cultural structures.
c) The exploitation of man by man is due to the materialistic and selfish character of the historically
dominant classes.
136) Which of the following characteristics is NOT characteristic of theoretical socialism?
a) Public (state) property of consumer goods.
b) Colectivization (social) of the factories.
c) Considers that any market economy distributes wealth unfairly.
137) Who was Aleksei Stakhánov?
a) One of Lenin's aides who helped to explode the Russian revolution and for that reason he was
decorated as an exemplary revolutionary example.
b) A miner from the Soviet Union who broke several productivity records and was put as an
example of a model worker.
c) A utopian socialist who was harshly criticized by Karl xc in his book "Misery of Philosophy".
138) The planned economy, according to Marxist socialist theses, consists of ...
a) Plan the production, leaving the distribution to the market.
b) Plan the distribution, based on the production of the market.
c) Plan production and distribution outside the market.
139) The end of the Cold War meant for the countries of the South ...
a) An increase in internal military conflicts
b) The loss of favorable terms of trade
c) The reinforcement of the economic protection exercised by the North
140) What value is central to the theses of Marxist socialism?
a) Competitiveness
b) The cooperation.
c) Friendship
141) Which of the following statements about the dictatorship of the proletariat is FALSE?
a) The Communist Party has a central leading role in it.
b) Consists of a government led by the soviets in an assembly.
c) It is a necessary phase to reach the communist society.
142) The competitive advantage theory holds that ...
a) Specializing in the production of a good for the exchange is advantageous
b) Putting a stop to commercial exchange with foreign countries increases the domestic
consumption of the country
c) None of the above
143) In the 90s we found that ...
a) World trade in raw materials increased more than that of manufactures
b) World trade in manufactures grew more than that of raw materials
c) World trade in raw materials and manufactures was balanced
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