Glossary:
Readings:
Nolan & Lenski: Chapter 10
Presentations:
Glossary:
| technology | age grades | pollution |
| appropriate technology | automation | industrialization |
| GNP/GDP | industrial reserve army | |
| deindustrialization | modernization | newly industrialized countries |
| density | secondary needs | desertification |
| industrialism | postindustrial society | economic surplus |
| social stratification | ozone depletion | greenhouse effect |
| green revolution | hyperindustrialism | postindustrial society |
| status quo | urbanization | industrial society |
| cash-crop production | ||
| agribusiness | mechanization | military-industrial complex |
Essays:
On your next exam you will be asked to demonstrate that you have read and mastered the course material. You should take the time now to answer the following essay questions to create your study guide for that exam. Address the questions fully and completely in your own words and voice. Prepare your answers now.
What impact has the industrialization of the American farm had on communities?
What changes occurred in the labor force with increasing industrialization?
What social forces promote the growth of monopoly and oligopoly?
Short
Answers:
The following short answer questions are from your readings and may well appear on your next exam. Each can be answered with a short paragraph of three or four sentences; please use your own words and voice. You are encouraged to answer these questions now to create your study guide for that exam.
What technological innovations have led to the increased productivity of American Agriculture?
What impact have these innovations had on the land?
Compare and contrast labor-intensive and capital-intensive industries.
What are market economies?
How do oligopolies weaken market economies?
What is a mixed economy?
Why has the American government become more involved in economy?
How did corporations evolve? Are they still evolving?
What is a corporation? What are its advantages over family-owned business ?
What is economic globalization?
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