SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Personal Pension Scheme, Status Attainment, Dawning Information Industry
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If describe canadian society to someone without referring to some features of stratification (aboriginals are more likely to live in poverty, large corporations are run by men, etc), then listener would not have adequate understanding of society. Inequalities in wealth can threaten social stability (poor resenting (dislike) wealthy demand more equality) Karl marx: capitalism, exploitation and class conflict: focused particularly on rapidly changing european world that he observed during his. Industrial revolution was a time when both level of economic production and degree of inequality in society increased tremendously. Davis and moore: a functional theory of stratification. 1945- kingsley davis and wilbert moore- published their much debated statement on. Some principles of social stratification : structural-functionalist theory: social organization is like a biological system, in which parts exist because of functions they perform in maintaining the whole. Functional necessity of stratification: all societies have variety of occupational roles that need to be filled, the ones that.
