SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Kobe Bryant, Meritocracy, Blue-Collar Worker
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Soca01 lecture 11 - orienting questions: is inequality inevitable, on what bases should rewards class, status and power be distributed, how much inequality should there be, fairness, societal benefits/risks. Ayn rand, atlas shrugged: revolt by risk innovators, social collapse. The functional theory of stratification: argues that inequality is useful and inevitable. Inequality does seem inevitable: kibbutz in israel, soviet union and communism. Emergence of inequality: inequality in power (from large scale organizations) is translated into status and economic outcomes. Critique of functionalism 1: how determine which jobs are most functionally important, i. e. contribute more and deserve higher rewards. Imagine a strike: time to impact, critically, replace ability, examples include teachers, police, doctors, hockey players, york university strike. Critique of functionalism 2: must wealth is inherited, legacy positions. (aa for the elite: occupations preserve scarcity, use power to limit access, credentialism, disproportionate rewards. Mean salary: nba: 5. 15 million, nfl: 1. 9 million, nhl: 2. 4 million, kobe bryant 2011 salary ,244,000.
