SOCI 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: International Inequality, Industrial Technology, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Chapter 9 global stratification: global stratification patterns of social inequality in the world as a whole, greatest social inequality is not within nations but between them. ,000: middle-income countries standard of living about average for the world gni per capita is less than ,000, greater than , low-income countries low standard of living, most people are poor gni less than. : this model focuses on economic development rather than political system (capitalist/socialist, gives better relative economic development of various countries, doesn"t lump together all lower-income countries. Industrial revolution 2 centuries ago, productivity increased hundredfold: high income nations canada, us, western europe, israel, saudi arabia, singapore, Middle-income countries industrial jobs common; 40-45% in rural poor, lack schooling, medical care, adequate housing, even safe drinking water. 101 nations lithuania and latvia (europe), mexico, argentina, nicaragua, congo, lao, Vietnam: eastern europe and western asia mostly socialist economies until revolts swept gov"t aside; more free-market economies now (belarus, ukraine, kazakhstan, georgia,
