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Global stratification is the hierarchical arrangement of countries based on wealth, technology, and social power, leading to disparities in income, education, and healthcare. Countries with strong family traditions may face slower technological adoption and economic growth, while underdevelopment cannot solely be blamed on cultural values, as external factors like exploitation by wealthier nations also play a significant role. Understanding these dynamics should inform foreign aid policies that promote sustainable development and address both internal and external challenges.

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Global stratification is the hierarchical arrangement of countries based on wealth, technology, and social power, leading to disparities in income, education, and healthcare. Countries with strong family traditions may face slower technological adoption and economic growth, while underdevelopment cannot solely be blamed on cultural values, as external factors like exploitation by wealthier nations also play a significant role. Understanding these dynamics should inform foreign aid policies that promote sustainable development and address both internal and external challenges.

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1.

What is global stratification and how does it countries often comes at the expense of poorer
manifest in different parts of the world? nations.

 Answer: Global stratification refers to the 4. How should our understanding of global
hierarchical arrangement of countries and stratification affect our views on foreign aid?
regions based on their levels of wealth,
technological development, and social power. It  Answer: Our understanding of global
manifests as significant disparities in income, stratification should lead us to advocate for
education, health, and access to resources. For foreign aid policies that address both internal
example, wealthy countries in the West enjoy and external factors contributing to
high standards of living and advanced underdevelopment. Effective foreign aid should
technologies, while poorer countries in other focus on building local capacities, promoting fair
parts of the world struggle with poverty, limited trade, investing in education and healthcare,
access to education, and inadequate healthcare. and ensuring that aid does not create
dependency but rather supports sustainable
2. What might be the long-term consequences and equitable development. It should also
for countries that are more steeped in family consider the historical contexts and current
systems and traditions when it comes to economic relationships that affect poorer
adopting new technologies? countries.

 Answer: Countries that are deeply rooted in 5. How do Modernization Theory and
family systems and traditions may experience Dependency Theory differ in their views on
slower economic growth and less technological development?
advancement. Their adherence to traditional
ways can make them less willing to adopt new  Answer: Modernization Theory and
technologies and social systems necessary for Dependency Theory offer different explanations
modernization. This resistance can lead to for development. Modernization Theory
reduced competitiveness in the global market, suggests that development is a result of
limited economic opportunities, and a slower adopting new technologies and cultural
overall development process. changes, emphasizing the role of internal
factors like innovation and progress-oriented
3. Is it fair to place the blame for attitudes. It argues that economic growth can
underdevelopment solely on the cultural be achieved by investing in better technologies
values and traditions of poorer countries? and adopting modern social systems.
Dependency Theory, on the other hand, focuses
 Answer: No, it is not fair to place the blame on external factors, arguing that the
solely on cultural values and traditions. While underdevelopment of poor countries is due to
internal factors like cultural resistance to their exploitation by richer nations. It claims
change play a role, external factors such as that wealthy countries extract resources and
historical colonization, exploitation by wealthier wealth from poorer countries, creating a
nations, and global economic inequalities also dependent and unequal global economic
significantly contribute to underdevelopment. system that hinders the development of the
Dependency Theory, for instance, emphasizes latter.
that the economic development of wealthy

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