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Stacie Armstrong SOC-100 J. Cruz Global Stratification In the United States, our political system of corruption should be addressing the serious issues of the country and the citizens. The disenfranchisement by certain corrupt politicians destroys our economy, increases homelessness, and lack of jobs. In the United States, we have a free enterprise economy, there are a number of jobs within various occupations, and excellent benefits packages for qualified people. However, pay rates have not increased with expansion, leaving more people with fewer means to live. Individuals in America are divided by salary, race, and gender. Work division prompts a culture of poverty and accepts hunger amongst its people. In the United States, our administration is hesitant to intervene in the free market. Causing hunger and food shortage, a critical issue within the economy the way things are currently. Global stratification In America has both positive and negative effects. The stratification is done by those in power positions and the greedy capitalist's that keep getting elected to political positions. There Are multinational corporations that continue to exploit people who live in the poorest nations, and often these corporations work with corrupt Officials by enslaving their citizens and keeping them low, paying them very little in wages. A couple of organizations assume the activity of collecting the data from all countries. The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) is one of them. The PRB distributes a yearly report that measures the multitude of the world's nations' general financial income. It is known as the Gross National Income (GNI) and Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). The GNI estimates the current value of products and services each country produces. The PPP measures the of money that each nation has to buy inventory with. Productive output, or the purchasing power that a nation has. The absolute figure is by the number of inhabitants living in a nation to build up everyone’s average salary. Since the expenses of merchandise and services shift from one nation to the next, the GNI PPP changes along with the overall worldwide unit. Ascertaining GNI PPP figures helps radical changes in the competitive dynamics of Ameri can capitalism have important implications for any effort to characterize the power elite of today. C. Wright Mills (1956), was a translator and interpreter of the German sociologist Max Weber, and he borrowed from Weber. The idea that a heavily bureaucratized society would also be a stable and conservative society. Only in a society which radical changes in the competitive dynamics of American capitalism, have important implications for any effort to characterize the power elite of today. C. Wright Mills was a translator and interpreter of the German sociologist Max Weber, and he borrowed from Weber the idea that a heavily bureaucratized society would also be a stable and conservative society (Wolfe, 2001).

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