Global-stratification.docx

Global Stratification - is social stratification on a global scale. Where social stratification draws attention to inequalities between smaller groups of people, global stratification draws attention to inequalities between entire countries. - it's speaks of social division and inequality. It means that the treatment for different societies is dependent on their varying classes. This phenomenon exists not only within a single society; rather it happens with a global perspective. As such, societies are stratified in relation to the status as compared to other societies around the world (Spark Notes, 2009).

Theories of Global Stratification  Modernization Theory - a perspective that links global inequality to different levels of economic development and suggests that low income economies can move to middle and high income economies by achieving self sustained economic growth. - According to modernization theory, low-income countries are affected by their lack of industrialization and can improve their global economic standing through (Armer and Katsillis 2010): 1. An adjustment of cultural values and attitudes to work 2. Industrialization and other forms of economic growth

Walt Rostow's Four Stages of Modernization  Traditional - an agricultural-based society.  Pre-conditions for take-off - characterized by an abundance of entrepreneurial activity.  Take-off - a period of rapid economic growth.  Maturation - economic development slows to a more consistent rate.  Mass production or mass consumption - a period in which real income increases.

Dependency Theory - the belief that global poverty can at least partially be attributed to the fact that the low income countries have been exploited by the high income countries. - is the notion that resources flow from a "periphery" of poor and underdeveloped states to a "core" of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former. It is a central contention of dependency theory that poor states are impoverished and rich ones enriched by the way poor states are integrated into the "world system".