Brazil Case

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Social Stratification

BRAZIL CASE STUDY

PRESENTED TO:

Prof. Swati Singh

PRESENTED BY

Khwaja Salmaan

Mukesh JaiswalMukesh Patel

Naveen Sharma

Nikita Pathak

Nilesh kumar r p.flv


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ABOUT BRAZIL

Earlier brazil was a underdeveloped country because of

slow economic growth,, but it will be more appropriate

to say that it was just a unjust country ,, as said by thepresident of brazil.

But now it is having a very large economies in the

world.

This "social question," as Brazilians call the divide

between rich and poor, has characterized the nation

since colonial times.


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North:

poor and under

developed

Southern:the wealthier,

more

industrialized

South.

Distinction according to economics


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PROBLEM

The problem is that they are having a unequal distribution of income

of the individual.

In 1980 the wealthiest Brazilians earned 10 times more than the medianfamily income, this difference has increased to 14 times, today

Brazil: 45% of nonwhite families and 25% of white families live below

the poverty line.

The poorest 20 percent of the population received only 3 % of nationalincome, while the richest 10 percent received 47 %.

In some parts of brazil, there was infant mortality,, which was again

increasing the social inequality.

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CONT.

70% of the electorate that is illiterate and never having completed

primary school live in the Northeast region of Brazil.

Blacks and pardos (brown) make up the majority of unemployedin the country even though together they represent 42.8% of theworking-age (12). According to the Brazilian Institute ofGeography and Statistics (IBGE) blacks and pardos earn half the

salary of what whites make.

The regressive tax system punishes the poor. According to IPEAdirector Mrcio Pochmann, the poorest 10% pay 32.8% of theirincome in taxes while the richest 10% only pay 22.7% (17). Amuch more progressive tax code is urgently needed to find the

necessary funding for the social problems that currently reside.

"Today, the net worth of the 358 richest people is equal to thecombined income of the poorest 45 percent of the world'spopulation --2,300 million people.


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CONT

Thousands of saqueiros

working on the Serra

Pelada gold mine,

which is now closed.

Gold was one of themost important exports

in the eighteenth

century


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A RAY OF HOPE

In the late 1980,, there was a inflation in the brazil

which compell the people to migrate towards another

country like North America, Japan , Europe etc.

But in mid 1990,there was a decline in inflation which

stabilized the economy .

With industrialization and urbanization during thefirst decades of the twentieth century, however, the

growth of the Brazilian middle class has made this

simple division more complex


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CONT..

Now ,, Brazilians moved from working poor to the

lower middle class.

And they also changed there spending pattern ,

they started to spend on the consumer goods.

And poor people was also benefitted by the stable

price,, and now they can afford to purchase the

staples like meat, chicken, eggs and beans.


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SYMBOLS OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION

Brazilians are preoccupied with class

distinctions and are quick to size up the social

distance that exists between themselves andothers they meet.

. The degree to which an individual's

vocabulary and grammar is considered

"educated" is used as a measure of schooling

and, hence, social class.


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