SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Class Consciousness, Inheritance, Structural Functionalism
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Social inequality is necessary for society to function correctly. Inequality is inevitable - every society has important jobs that have to be filled o. Important jobs that are critical to society"s functional often require extensive training, hardwork, talent --> offer financial rewards in order to attract people and to keep people in those jobs. The most important positions in society must be the most highly paid. Example: medical school --> people would not be motivated to go through extensive education if there wasn"t large wage at the end to reward them. Critique of davis and moore: of the following jobs, i would personally rank _______ as being the most important, farmer, doctor, artist, caregiver of children, political leader. Disagreement in terms of what people think is the most important job in society --> limitation: assuming societal constitution in terms of what is the most important job in society. How can this help us to critique davis and moore"s theory? o.