Section 9.1 What Is Social Stratification?
Recent Economic Changes and U.S. Stratification
Systems of Stratification
The Caste System
The Class System
Meritocracy
Status Consistency
Section 9.2 Social Stratification and Mobility in the United States
Standard of Living
Social Classes in the United States
The Upper Class
The Middle Class
The Lower Class
Social Mobility
Class Traits
Section 9.3 Global Stratification and Inequality
Models of Global Stratification
Section 9.4 Theoretical Perspectives on Social Stratification
Functionalism
Conflict Theory
Symbolic Interactionism
Section 10.1 Global Stratification and Classification
Global Stratification
Global Classification
Cold War Terminology
Immanuel Wallerstein: World Systems Approach
World Bank Economic Classification by Income
High-Income Nations
Middle-Income Nations
Low-Income Nations
Section 10.2 Global Wealth and Poverty
Types of Poverty
Who Are the Impoverished?
Global Feminization of Poverty
Africa
Asia
MENA
Consequences of Poverty
Slavery
Section 10.3 Theoretical Perspectives on Global Stratification
Modernization Theory
Dependency Theory