Today’s Topic
• Global inequality
• Theory of Social Movement
• Type of Social Movement
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Global Inequality
Stratification in the World System
• The divide or an economic gap between industrial (developed) and developing nation is
increasing more and more, not decreasing.
• This problem stems from:
• The legacy of colonialism
• The advent of multinational corporations
• Modernization
Figure 1: World Wealth Level 2012
The legacy of colonialism
• Often in 19th century, it occurs when a foreign power maintains political, social, economic,
and cultural domination over a people.
• For example, the British Empire used to colonize North America, parts of Africa, and India.
• By the 1980s, it had largely disappeared.
• Most of the nations colonized had achieved political independence and set up their own
governments.
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• However, economic exploitation by former colonial state often continued partly because