TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS 1.Using the term the political economy helps sociologists to underscore the fact that politics and economics are intimately interrelated and interdependent. 2.Politics is the most important concept in the study of the political economy. 3.The ability to determine which issues will or will not be addressed is referred to as systemic power. 4.Industrialization and exposure to modern views have little effect in terms of undermining traditional authority. 5.Charismatics lead independently of formal positions or offices. 6.Rousseau was the first to propose communism as a better alternative to capitalism. 7.Early conservatives, led by the English thinker Edmund Burke, argued that gradual change was always preferable to the large-scale transformations associated with upheavals such as the French Revolution. 8.Twentieth-century efforts to establish state socialism were successful in China, but less than successful in the Soviet Union. 9.Collectivized agriculture was the only successful effort in the failed socialism of the former Soviet Union. 10.Conservatism calls for a very strong state which plays a dominant role in controlling the economy.