User:Sooner016/World stratification
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In sociology, social stratification is the hierarchical arrangement of social classes, castes and strata within a society. When studying stratification, most social scientists study groups of people within a nation, usually stratifying them based on wealth, power, and occupational structure. Dependency theorists began to think about stratificatin on a global scale. Instead of classes within a society, they studied how societies themselves fit into a world stratification system. Immanuel Wallerstein expanded on dependency theory and started what is known as the world-system perspective. World-systems analysis is the most common way to study world stratification.
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