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Davis and Moore 1945 Some Principles of Stratification A Functional View of Inequality

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Davis and Moore 1945 Some Principles of Stratification A Functional View of Inequality

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    1. Davis and Moore (1945) Some Principles of Stratification A Functional View of Inequality

    2. Point #1 Not all social positions are equally important. Some social positions are functionally more important compared to others.

    3. Point #2 At birth, peoples innate talents, abilities, and potential is already stratified. Not everyone is capable of performing the roles (duties) of some social positions.

    4. Point #3 The conversion or transformation of ones potential into realizable and useable practical skills requires a period of sacrifice.

    5. Point #4 Society needs to offer inducements in order to encourage some individuals to undergo the sacrifice necessary to convert potential into beneficial skills.

    6. Point #5 Society has three types of inducement rewards sustenance and comfort humor and diversion self-respect and ego expansion

    7. Point #6 Thus we end-up with a system of differential rewards which results in an unequal distribution of societies rewards but which is positively functional and beneficial for society.

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