SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: False Consciousness, Blue-Collar Worker, Wage Labour
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How much inequality should there be: fairness, social benefits. Revolt by risk innovators: social collapse. Argues that inequality is useful and inevitable. Two of the greatest efforts to get rid of equality failed. Inequality in power (from large scale organizations) is translated into status and economic outcomes. There is no actual solution to this; because power itself is a form of inequality. Some jobs (i. e. physician) are more important than others (i. e. Some jobs (i. e. physician) are more important than others (i. e. janitor) functional importance. To motivate people to make the sacrifices necessary to train for important jobs, they must receive large rewards for their work. How determine which jobs are most functionally important: i. e. contribute more and deserve higher rewards. Replaceability army can replace the police to an extent. Do they make higher contributions: models help sell things. 2: female singers; are all gorgeous, good looking young females are hired more so they can sell products .
