COLAND SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Cotabato City

SOCSCI 111 – THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

PRELIM EXAM SET B
Instructor: BAI ALSHEIKA P. ULAMA

General Directions: NO PERMIT, NO EXAM

Any form of CHEATING means FAILED.
ERASURE is NOT ALLOWED.
Use Yellow Paper as your answer sheet. DO NOT WRITE anything in your
questionnaire.

I. True or False. Write T if the underlined statement is correct; otherwise, write F. (1 pt. each)

_____1. Globalization decreases poverty in developing nations.

_____2. The level of global interconnectedness is in large part due to advancement in communications and
transportation.
_____3. The Internet has been a major force facilitating international trade in services.
_____4. Globalization promotes education and health. Through internet everyone is able to get education and
it allows people from one part of the world to educate people from another.
_____5. By offering the same basic product worldwide, firms help to create a global market.
_____6. Does a company has to be the size of a multinational giant to facilitate, and benefit from, the
globalization of markets?
_____7. Globalization is new.
_____8. Globalization does help connect the world.
_____9. The rise of K-pop around the world is an example of globalization.
_____10. Globalization is reversible and evitable.
_____11. International Fastfood chains menu here in the philippines being paired with rice in order to suit
the taste of the filipinos is a result of cultural hybridization.
_____12. The mixing of cultures leading to unique combinations is the result of cultural hybridization.
_____13. Globalization has influenced the standard of life and personal satisfaction of people and families
throughout the world.
_____14. All you need to go global is a website.
_____15. Globalization is only for big, top-tier companies.

II. Identification. Fill each blank with the correct answer. Write your answer on the space provided. (1pt
each)

_________1. the process of world shrinkage, of distances getting shorter, things moving closer. It pertains to
the increasing ease with which somebody on one side of the world can interact, to mutual benefit with
somebody on the other side of the world.
_________2. also refers to barriers that prevent or make the movement of things.
_________3. refers to the increasing ease of movement of things, information, and places in the
contemporary world.
_________4. are the movement of people, things, places, and information brought by the growing “porosity”
of global limitations (Ritzer, 2015).
_________5. refers to the increasing sameness in the world as cultural inputs, economic factor, and political
orientations of societies expand to create common practices, same economics, and similar forms of
government.
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_________6. which was defined by Kuisel (1993) as “the import by non-Americans of products, images,
technologies, practices, and behavior that are closely associated with America/Americans.
_________7. involves the global spread of rational systems, such as efficiency, calculability, predictability,
and control, Ritzer (2008) pointed out that this process is “extended to other businesses, sectors, and
geographic areas.
_________8. refers to the differences because of either lasting differences or of the hybrids or combinations
of cultures that can be produced through the different transplanetary processes.
_________9. coined by Roland Robertson in 1992. To him, as global forces interact with local factors or a
specific geographic area, the “glocal” is being produced.
_________10. emphasizes the fact that cultures are essential different and are only superficially affected by
global flows.
_________11. approach emphasizes the integration of local and global cultures.
_________12. approach stresses homogeneity introduced by globalization..
_________13. said, “globalization is a ‘world of things’ that have ‘different speeds, axes, points of origin
and termination, and varied relationships to institutional structures in different regions, nations, or societies’”
_________14. Stated that globalization means the onset of the borderless world.
_________15. reality and omnipresence of globalization makes us see ourselves as part of what we refer to
as the_________.

II. Essay. (10 pts. each)

1. As a third world country how beneficial is globalization to us?

2. Explain the advantage and disadvantage of globalization in the Philippines?