SOC 0432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Classless Society, Class Conflict, Equal Opportunity
18 Sep 2019
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Stratification as a result of how communities judge individual lifestyles. Each of us have the right to the chance of reaching the top. This is mutually contradictory: we are equal and there is a top and a bottom: equal opportunity, not outcome. Marx argues that this is what we need to hear. When equality is absent, we must believe that opportunity for advancement exists. Page 69: lives of many are destroyed because they don"t understand the workings of social class. Complex societies have rankings and are stratified. Need for coordination and integration for development. Increase division of labor increase need for number of diverse social units. Classes don"t necessarily need to yield class conflict. Believe that differential rewards are necessary to motivate the best people to occupy the most important/difficult positions in complex, industrialized societies.
