SOCL 2001 Chapter : Chapter 7
Document Summary
India"s religious castes: untouchables: contaminate members of higher caste, caste system formally abolished in 1949, but remains a part of everyday life. Indian video about caste systems: mainly women facing entrenched social prejudice and forced to live as outcast, the people are confined to the lowest types of jobs, untouchable toilet cleaners, us racial caste system, replaced slavery. Intermarriage remained illegal following slavery: all whites had higher status than all blacks, separate, but equal : separate schools, hotels, toilets, etc, even if you were a prestigious african american you still faced these problems, ex: w. e. Industrialized first: rich and powerful, semi-periphery, dependent on trade with core nations, economies stagnated, periphery, sold cash crops to core nations, developed even less than semi-periphery, external area. Interconnected production and trade: clothes, shoes, flags, etc. made and sold in different places, all of today"s societies are part of a world system, culture of poverty, least industrialized nations have been crippled by perpetual intergenerational poverty.
