CHAPTER EIGHT

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CHAPTER EIGHT

• GLOBAL STRATIFICATION

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Rich and Poor

• Inequality increasing
• Where is most of the worlds wealth?
• Three worlds
• Core and peripheral countries
• Race and global inequality
• What race dominates most powerful countries?
• Where are the poorest countries?

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Consequences of Global Stratification

• Population
• 60 of people live in countries with income lt
  760/yr.
• Education
• High in wealthy nations
• Low in others
• Gender
• Healthsee chart

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Health Consequences of Global Stratification
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Theories

• Modernization theory
• Economic development
• Explanation of poverty
• Criticism
• Dependency theory
• Economic development
• Explanation of poverty
• Criticism

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Theories (contd)

• World Systems theory
• Economic development
• Explanation of poverty
• Criticism

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World Poverty

• Who are the poor?
• 1.2 billion live in poverty
• Women and children
• Own lt 1 of worlds wealth
• Greater health risks
• Mother
• Children
• Millions of street children as young as 6
• Child povertyUS v. other industrial countries

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Causes of World Poverty

• What doesnt cause poverty?
• Not necessarily population growth
• Lazy people
• What does cause poverty?
• Unstable or no government
• Collapsed economies
• Changes in world market

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GLOBAL STRATIFICATION

• END CHAPTER EIGHT