Pluralization is a more accurate description of twenty-first-century globalization than democratization because

a. diminished costs have made luxuries available to everyone.
b. inequality in wealth means that despite large increases in the number of people able to participate in global networks, these networks still exclude large portions of the population even in wealthy states.
c. transnational networks allow political participation across borders.
d. individuals are now much more likely to belong to more than one global network.
e. there are now many more global networks, even though they have not become significantly more democratic.

Answer: b