Chapter 14 Taught Me A Great Deal About World Stratification

Chapter 14 taught me a great deal about world stratification and how the world system perspective works on an economic level. In order to understand world stratification we must understand how nationally the world is split up into classes. The three divisions of the stratification system are Core, Periphery and Semi-periphery. These were things I never heard of before, however I understand the divisions more fully now and realize how they tie into the poverty rates around the world. I also thought learning about Japan’s power elite and Germany’s codetermination systems in chapter 15 was surprising and made me see how some of their systems could be beneficial to the Americans and our ever increasing poverty rates. Furthermore, I learned what Purchasing Power Parity is and how $1.00 in other nations compares to U.S. dollars, it put a lot of things into perspective for me in terms of how bad things really could be and are for the poverty stricken. 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