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  • Layers occur almost everywhere in nature: in tissues of the human body, rock formations in the ground, atmospheres around the earth, and in societies of every nation on the earth. We call these layers strata and the process of layering stratification.
  • Social Stratification is the socio-economic layering of society's members according to property, power, and prestige. Property is all the wealth, investments, deeded and titled properties, and other tangible sources of income. Power is the ability to get one's way even in the face of opposition to one's goals. Prestige is the degree of social honor attached with your position in society.
    • Catherine Preston
      Catherine Preston on 13 Nov 13
       
      What makes the layers are the gaps between the haves and the have-nots as well as the gaps of the different economic classes.
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  • here are layers of social stratification in every society
  • here are the "haves" who coexist with the masses or "Have nots."
  • he PRB uses a measure of relative economic well being called the GNI PPP. The GNI PPP is the gross national income of a country converted to international dollars using a factor called the purchasing power parity.
  • lets you understand how much a person could buy in the US with a given amount of money, regardless of the country's currency.
  • That means the stratification difference between the world's top five countries is over 149 times higher than the bottom 5 countries.
  • The US ranks high $45, 840 per capita (per person) but is the 6th wealthiest behind Luxembourg, Norway, Kuwait, Brunei, and Singapore.
  • More Developed Nations are nations with comparably higher wealth than most countries of the world including: Western Europe; Canada, United States, Japan, and Australia-these are also called Now Rich Countries.
  • lso called Now Poor Countries.
  • Africa is the poorest region with the average person making less than 1/10th of what the average US person makes.
  • Again Luxembourg at $64,400 has a score over 20 times higher than Africa's; 11 times higher than Asia (Excl. China); and 7 times higher than Latin America.
  • The higher the GNI PPP the better off the average person in that country
  • Females made much less income than males in all categories.
  • The Hispanic category is lowest for males and females.
  • Asians had the highest personal income for both sexes (Data for Asians was not reported prior to 2004).
  • The first thing you see is that dual-earner marrieds (both husband and wife work in labor force) by far have the highest income levels between 1990 and 2006.
  • husband only in labor force) comes in next followed closely by single males
    • Catherine Preston
      Catherine Preston on 13 Nov 13
       
      This is a great example of how the value of a woman as capital does not lie in income because it is inferior to male's 
  • In sum, the females with the highest income are married.
  • Single females reported the lowest income
  • Basically, the higher the education, the higher the annual income in 2007.
  • higher for Whites and Asians
  • Blacks and Hispanics
  • Official data begin to tell you the story about how the layers look in a society.
  • Over 40 percent of Hispanics, African Americans, and Native Americans dropped out.
  • In the US, non-Whites, non-Asians, and non-males are more likely to be found in the lower layers.
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