Global Stratification Flashcards
Global stratification
patterns of social inequality in the world as a whole
division of the world into
high, low and middle countries
high income countries
contain 28% of the world people
recieve 62% of global income
have a highstandrad of living based on advanced technology
produce enough economic goods to enable their people to lead c comfortable lives
include 79 nations like Canada, America, Mexico, argentica, chile, isreal, saudi arabia, Russian, japan , south koroea Malaysia nad Australia
middle income countries
contain 58% of the world
recieve 36% of global income
have a standard of living about average for the world as a whole
include 67 nations like peru, egypt , India
low income countries
contain 14% of the worlds people
recieve 2% of the global income
have low standards of living due to limited industrial technology
include 48 nations like asia, east and central Africa , Ethiopia
explanartions of poverty
lack technology
polulation growth
cultural patterns
social stratification
gender inequality
global power relationships
colonialism
the process by wich some nations enrich themselves through economic and political control of other nations
neocolonialism
a new form of global power relationships that involves not direct political control but economic exploitation by multinational corporations
multi national corporation
a large business that operates in ma y countries
theories of global stratification
modernization theory
dependancy theory
modernzation theory
a model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of technological and cultural differences between nations
it claims that rich can help poor nations by providing technology to control population size, increase food production and expand industrial and informational economy output by providing foreign aid to pay for new development
rostows stages of modernization
traditional stage
take off stage
drive to technological maturity
high mass consumption
the role of rich nations
controlling populations
increasing food production
introducing industrial technology
providing foreign aid
dependency theory
a model of economic and social development that explain social inequality in terms of the historical exploitation of poor nations by rich ones
Immanuel Wallerstein
explain global stratification using a model of the “capitalist world economy”
global economic system results to poverty and dependency and inequality
