Global Perspective
Global Perspective the study of the larger world and our society’s place in it.
Global awareness is a logical extension of the sociological perspective.Sociology shows us that our place in society shapes our life experiences. It stands to reason,then,that the position of our society in the larger world system affects everyone in the United States.
High-income Countries
High-income countries the nations with the highest overall standards of living
Examples of High-income Countries
The seventy-two countries in this category include the United States and Canada, Argentina, the nations of Western Europe, South Africa, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and Australia. Taken together, these nations produce most of the world’s goods and services, and the people who live there own most of the planet’s wealth.Economically speaking,people in these countries are very well off, not because they are smarter or work harder than anyone else but because they were lucky enough to be born in a rich region of the world.
Middle-income Countries
Middle-income countriesnations with a standard of living about average for the world as a whole.
Examples of Middle-income Countries
People in any of these seventy nations—many of the countries of Eastern Europe, some of Africa, and almost all of Latin America and Asia—are as likely to live in rural villages as in cities and to walk or ride tractors, scooters, bicycles, or animals as to drive automobiles. On average, they receive eight to ten years of schooling. Most middle-income countries also have considerable social inequality within their own borders,so that some people are extremely rich (members of the business elite in nations across North Africa, for example), but many more lack safe housing and adequate nutrition (people living in the shanty settlements that surround Lima, Peru, or Mumbai, India).
Low-income Countries
Low-income Countries nations with a low standard of living in.
Examples of Low-income Countries
The remaining fifty-three nations of the world are low-income countries, nations with a low standard of living in which most people are poor. Most of the poorest countries in the world are in Africa, and a few are in Asia. Here again, a few people are very rich, but the majority struggle to get by with poor housing,unsafe water, too little food, and perhaps most serious of all, little chance to improve their lives.
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