SOCL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Scottish Enlightenment, Thomas Robert Malthus, Social Stratification
1 Dec 2017
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Introduction: stratification is systematic inequalities between groups of people that arise as intended or unintended consequences of social processes and relationships. The ability to create assets provides an incentive to work hard and be productive, which in turn leads to higher degrees of social organization and efficiency and ultimately to an improved society and civilization. The irony, however, is that this ability to create and store surpluses is what creates inequality: thomas malthus also viewed inequality favorably, but only as a means for controlling population growth. Hegel also believed that over time society would have more and more free people and the master slave model would die out as the primary social relationship. rewards regardless of his or her starting point, opportunities, or contributions. This standard of equality is most closely associated with communist ideology, and critics argue that without greater incentives to work hard and be productive, people will slack off and social progress will be stymied.
