SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ceteris Paribus, Andre Gunder Frank, Friedrich Hayek
24 Sep 2013
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Functionalist approach to understanding inequality critique of functionalism. Sources of authority: traditional, rational-legal and charismatic. Organic solidarity (individuals held together through interdependence) Focused on the division of labour and how society maintains social order. 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, Critique of functionalist examination (melvin tumin 1954): Davis and moore: inequality motivates hard work, competition, and efficiency. Tummin: inequality erodes opportunity, perpetuates privilege, and undermines motivation and hard work, while at the same time perpetuating inequalities (sernau, 2011: 23) Gordon laxer (1995: 287-288): globalization is about four interrelated changes. Robert reich (1991: 302-303): laments the dark underside of globalization in which the rich increasingly disengage themselves from their fellow countrymen and leave them in deteriorating conditions . Modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of all people (even those in the developing world.
