Sociology › Section I · Social stratification › Topic I.4
Theoretical perspectives on stratification
Is inequality the price a society pays for getting its hardest jobs done, a system the powerful build to protect themselves, or something people act out every day in what they wear and buy? Each of sociology's main perspectives gives a different answer.
In this topic
- One fact, several explanations
- The Davis-Moore thesis
- Worked example: testing Davis and Moore
- Tumin's critique
- Marx: class and the means of production
- Weber: class, status and party
- Worked example: three dimensions
- Symbolic interactionism: class in daily life
- Worked example: one pay gap, three lenses
- Weighing the perspectives
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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