Global Stratification A Sociological Examination

The industrialization and technology of the world’s higher income nations has a negative effect on the plight of the world’s poorer nations. The high-income nations’ industrialization encourages child labor, poor living conditions in exchange for material things, and higher world pollution. When the higher income nations became industrialized in the 1800’s, the lower income nations were slow to catch up. Now, the low and middle-income countries are trying to catch up to the …

…much conflict. I am optimistic towards the future changes of the world, as I believe that the societies of the world are working toward a more even sociological playing field and greater equality of resources for the world’s people. If the low and middle-income nations work toward curbing population explosion and work toward strengthening their economies, I believe that the world could possibly, in the next 200 years, be made of one homogeneous, wealthy culture.