Table 5-1. Kerbo’s Chapter 5 Outline: Modern (U.S.) Stratification Theories

Table 5-1. Kerbo’s Chapter 5 Outline: Modern (U.S.) Stratification Theories • Early Stratification Studies: • Conflict: Veblen’s Leisure Class, Lynd’s Middletown • Order: Warner’s Yankee City • Functional Model • Davis and Moore; Parsons • Critics • Occupational Prestige and SES • Conflict Model • Hunter • Mills • Debates • Basis of inequality • Theories of class

Figure 5-1. Davis and Moore’s Functional Model of Inequality - + Distribution Of Rewards Recruitment of Best and Brightest - Change in Supply and Demand

Table 5-2. Model Assumptions for Davis and Moore’s Functional Model of Social Stratification 1. Differential Functional Importance of Positions (Occupations) 2. Limited Supply of Qualified Persons 3. Differential Cost of Training Persons for Different Positions 4. Need to Induce Qualified to Bear Costs of Training 5. Inducements Include Subsistence/Luxury, Fun, Fame 6. Distribution of these Goodies as Inducements is Basis for Stratification 7. Thus Inequality is Inevitable and Functional (Necessary and Desirable)

Table 5-3. Parsons’ Functional Model Assumptions • Placement is Based on Moral Evaluation by Others • Moral Evaluation is Based on Shared Value System (Consensus) • Value System is Based in Dominant Institution (in Particular Time and Place) • Exemplary (in these terms) are Awarded High Status, Income, Wealth

Figure 5-2. Dahrendorf’s Model of Class Conflict Authority Conflict Subordinate

Figure 5-3. C. Wright Mills Model of the Power Elite Government Leaders Economic Leaders Cultural Leaders

Figure 5-4. Conflict Functional Model of Inequality - + Distribution Of Rewards Status Quo - Mass Political Movements

Figure 5-5. Dahrendorf’s Model of Class Conflict and Social Change Collapse New Authority Social Movement Routinization Established Authority Charismatic Leader

Figure 5-6. Blau and Duncan’s Model of Socio-Economic Status Average Education For Occupation Popular Perception of Occupation’s Prestige Average Income For Occupation Prestige = constant + B1 (Education) + B 2 (Income) +/- measurement error

Table 5-4. Class, Status and Power Dimensions Stressed in Stratification Paradigms (from Kerbo, p. 131)

Table 5-5. The Convergence of Occupational, Bureaucratic, and Property Divisions on Class Categories

Table 5-6. Wright’s Class Categories, Defined by Ownership, Employees, Skill, and Persons Supervised

Figure 5-7. Wright’s Model of Class Relations Artisanal Capitalist State Socialist Petty Bourgeois Employer Manager Professional Worker Skilled Worker Worker Source: Erik Olin Wright, “Varieties of Marxist Conceptions,” in Social Stratification, Edited by David B. Grusky (Westview, 2001), p. 124

Table 5-1. Kerbo’s Chapter 5 Outline: Modern (U.S.) Stratification Theories