Global Stratification and Its Effects on Local Cultures and the United States

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1 Global Stratification and Its Effects on Local Cultures and the United States Aaron Leon Snell III College of Education, Grand Canyon University SOC-100: Everyday Sociology Dr. Marissa Rolerson September 24, 2023

2 The global stratification that has become the norm across the globe has done more harm than good for the citizens of this planet we call Earth. As the rich get richer off of the hard work of the “little guy” or Proletariat, the poor get poorer. According to Dorius (2018) the standard of living for a vast majority of the world’s citizens has gone up over the last 130 years, and it has, but the increases of the standard of living for the world’s elite has increased exponentially more. As large multinational corporations like Nike outsource, moving their plants and factories overseas to places like China and India to avoid things like taxes and paying “minimum” wage, small towns and their families suffer, jobs disappear, and those businesses who do move in, the big box stores and national or international chain restaurants among others, while providing jobs, cause local mom and pop stores to barely scrape by. They are forced to offer lower prices that lead to them barely making a profit just to stay in business. (Henslin, 2019) Global stratification has no positive effects for local cultures and small-town life. According to Dorius (2018), the global spread of mass education and industrialization allowed for the accumulation of human and economic capital among a massive slice of the world’s citizens. Meaning, As the masses of the world have become more educated, and plants and factories open across the globe, a better standard of living has been brought to many people worldwide. Though poverty is still rampant both in third world countries and in the United States. As Nike and other companies who are “globalizing” or outsourcing their work to citizens of other countries, American citizens are losing their jobs, forcing them to work 2 or 3 low paying minimum wage jobs just to make ends meet. In this system, the biggest winners are the CEOs of Nike and their ilk. Profiting off of the work of millions of people in third world countries, while American citizens have to scrape by

3 with other work because those companies don’t want to pay the higher wages and taxes they would have to pay here. In conclusion, it is this author’s hope that as we move forward as a global community, we can band together to lift up those in poverty, and maybe, bring the wealthy elite down a notch, making the world just a little fairer and more equitable. So that the riches of this world will not be squandered just to line the pockets of a select few but be shared equally so that the generations to come will not have to break their backs just to survive.

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4 References Dorius, S. F. (2018). Socioeconomic Status Mobility in the Modern World System: Growth and Allocation Effects. Social Indicators Research, 138(3), 1049–1074. https://doi- org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1688-z Henslin, J. M. (2019). Essentials of sociology: A down-to-earth approach (13th ed.). Pearson. ISBN-13: ISBN 9780134736587

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