Ch. 9 Stratification: Supplemental Review Slides
Module 5: Stratification- U.S. and Global Inequality
Overview
Textbook, slides, and class activities related to social stratification and global inequality. Primary text: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 2e
Stratification- U.S. and Global Inequality: Learning Objectives
Explain the concept of social stratification
Compare and contrast open vs. closed systems of stratification
Identify impacts of social class on life chances and social factors (health, family, education, political participation/preferences, and criminal justice)
Differentiate between types of social mobility
Describe uses and criticisms of the poverty line
Summarize patterns and trends related to poverty (geography, race-ethnicity, feminization of poverty),
Compare and contrast structural and agency-based explanations for poverty
Summarize and evaluate functionalist (Davis-Moore hypothesis and Tumin’s critique), conflic, and symbolic interactionist theories about stratification
Identify characteristics of Most Industrialized, Industrializing, and Least Industrialized Nations
Compare and contrast explanations for the origin and maintenance of global stratification
Stratification- U.S. and Global Inequality: Readings
Stratification- U.S. and Global Inequality: Supplemental Review Slides
The attached slides provide a useful review of concepts from chapters 9 and 10 in your textbook.
Stratification- U.S. and Global Inequality: Class Activities
Activity 16: Global Inequality Country Profiles
Learning Objectives: Examine global inequality between the world’s poorest and wealthiest nations. Apply World Bank and World Systems approaches to country classification.
CSSS: Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, Organization
Instructions: Using the label inside your clothing, identify the countries where each member of your group's shirts were made. Work with your group to prepare a brief country profile comparing and contrasting the socioeconomic circumstances in the United States and two (2) of the countries where your shirts were manufactured. (Note: if all of your shirts were made in the same country, use either Indonesia, Colombia, or Bangladesh for your comparisons)
For each of the three countries you must include:
- *Average life expectancy
- *Infant mortality rate
- *Literacy rate for males and females
- *Gross National Income Per Capita
- *World Bank Classification (High, Middle, Low-Income) and why
- *World Systems Classification (Core, Peripheral, Semi-peripheral) and why
You must also include at least three of the following:
- Types of employment and working conditions
- Existence of sweatshops and numbers employed in them
- Incidence of slavery and human trafficking
- Nutrition: number of malnourished or undernourished; average calories consumed per person
- Incidence of HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, other diseases
- Accessibility of doctors, hospitals and numbers per population
- Number of people attending school up to 6th grade (or other educational benchmarks you can find)
- Any other relevant facts you would like to add that convey the degree of well-being of the citizens of your countries.
Some good sources of information:
www.worldbank.org
www.nationmaster.com
http://www.who.int/countries/en/
www.undp.org
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the‐world‐factbook/