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

Power-Conflict Theory Table 5-4. Class, Status and Power Dimensions Stressed in Stratification Paradigms (from Kerbo, p. 131) Value Assumptions Critical Uncritical Model Assumptions Order Does Not Exist Functional Theory Status Honor Conflict Ruling Class Theory Class Power-Conflict Theory Power

Positions in three main types of institutional structures Table 5-5. The Convergence of Occupational, Bureaucratic, and Property Divisions on Class Categories Positions in three main types of institutional structures Class categories Occupation Bureaucratic Authority Property Relation Upper Class High Owner Corporate Class Non-Owner Middle Class High to Mid Mid Working Class Mid to Low Low Lower Class

Relations of Production Table 5-6. Wright’s Class Categories, Defined by Ownership, Employees, Skill, and Persons Supervised Relations of Production Class Owns M.O.P. Employs Workers Skill Level Supervises Others Capitalist Yes Many Variable Usually Petty-Bourgeois Few Professional No Expert Manager Supervisor Low Skilled Worker Medium Worker

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