SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Serfdom, Robert Reich, Neocolonialism
23 Jan 2018
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Functionalist approach to understanding inequality - critique of functionalism. How much power you have in relation to other people. Power in the economic ground is social class. Focused on the division of labour and how society maintains social order. People are helping each other, share same skills, people are independent. Even though people are not doing the same job, they also have connection with each other. Social equality for social survival is that the most important job are fill by the right kinds of people and other kinds of people need to fit in the bottom jobs. " a society must have some kinds of rewards that it can use as inducements and some way of distributing these rewards differently according to position" (kingsley and davis, 1950) All the positions you have has to fill based on the skills. For example, who go to university or not. Davis and moore: inequality motivates hard work, competition, and efficiency.
