SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Gross Domestic Product, Gross National Income, Social Stratification
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Global inequality: global stratification compares the wealth, economic stability, status, and power of countries across the world, global stratification highlights worldwide patterns of social inequality, sociologists studying global stratification analyze economic comparisons between nations. Income, purchasing power, and wealth are used to calculate global stratification: global stratification also compares the quality of life that a country"s population can have. It also includes government spending: because the gdp indicates a country"s productivity and performance, comparing. Gdp rates helps establish a country"s economic health in relation to other countries. In 1945, the davis-moore thesis, argued that the greater the functional importance of a social role, the greater must be the reward. In 1953, melvin tumin countered the davis-moore thesis in some principles of. In most communities, people interact primarily with others who share the same social standing. Africa: the majority of the poorest countries in the world are in africa, nu"man.
