4.1 Learning Outcomes
Aimee Samara Krouskop
This chapter offers you the opportunity to:
- Compare views about the relationship between global stratification and globalization.
- Identify the measures that social scientists use to study economic global stratification.
- Summarize, with a critical lens, how countries are categorized.
- Discuss theories that explain why inequality exists between countries.
- Explain how social inequality within countries is evaluated based on social locations.
- Illustrate how quality of life is identified and measured globally.
- Discuss how globalization affects inequality between and within countries.
- Summarize trends related to global inequality.
definition
the unequal distribution of economic and social resources among the world's countries.
the growing interdependence of the world’s economies, cultures, and populations due to cross-national exchanges of goods and services, technology, investments, people, ideas, and information.
figures, extents, or amounts of phenomena that we are investigating.
the unequal distribution of valued resources, rewards, and positions in societies.
