Unit 8 Concepts
The important concepts in Unit 8 are listed below. The readings and other learning opportunities are designed to help you become familiar with these concepts. You should know the definitions of each concept and also how sociologists use these concepts. Try to incorporate these concepts into your work for this course.
| (1) Global Stratification | (12) Colonialism |
| (2) High-Income Countries | (13) Neocolonialism |
| (3) Middle-Income Countries | (14) Multinational Corporation (MNC) |
| (4) Low-Income Countries | (15) Modernization Theory |
| (5) First World | (16) Mass Consumption |
| (6) Second World | (17) Dependency Theory |
| (7) Third World | (18) World Economy |
| (8) Slavery | (19) Core |
| (9) Debt Bondage | (20) Semiperiphery |
| (10) Human Traficking | (21) Periphery |
| (11) Happy Poverty |
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