Social Stratification - Theories

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Sociology: - Social Stratification

POST-CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY THEORIES OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY

Class-Based Theories:

“Syntheses” of Marxian, Weberian, Structural-Functional Views

        1. Ralf Dahrendorf

        2. Gerhard Lenski

“Neo-Marxist”

        1. Nicos Poulantzas

        2. Erik Olin Wright

“Neo-Weberian”

        1. Frank Parkin

        2. Anthony Giddens

Non-Class-Based Theories:

        

Gender-Based Inequality

Race-Ethnicity, Religious, Language: Primordial Group Inequality

Culture-, Education-Based Inequality

Rational Choice ( also: Local Justice) Inequality

GENDER INEQUALITY

I. “Domestic” and General Inequality:

A. Material well-being, entitlement to and control of material rewards and resources

B. Safety and Security

C. Participation in society, social groups, power, influence – in nuclear and extended families, communities

D. Autonomy, self-determination, control of self, body

E. Control of others

F. Education, information

G. Symbolic rewards, resources; prestige, honor

II. “Public” and Labor Markety Inequality

A. Knowledge, information, graining

B. Occupational qualifications, attainment

C. Job seniority, career advancement

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D. Earning and Income

E. Authority, autonomy, managerial opportunity vs. subordination,

Supervision

III. Factors, Causes, Explanations, Issues

A. Structural-Functional Analysis: Role Differentiation

B. Neo-Classical Economics Analysis: Women’s “Tastes,” “Preferences”

C. Marxist Analysis: Capitalist Exploitation of Historical Gender Subordination to Appropriate Surplus Value of Women’s

Domestic Labor

D. Patriarchy: Continuity of Historical Patriarchy in Domestic Sphere, and Transfer of Patriarchy to Public/Labor Market Sphere

E. Roles, Positions of Women in Contemporary Class Formation =??

RACE, ETHNIC, RELIGIOUS, LANGUAGE, PRIMORDIAL GROUPINEQUALITY

1. Discrimination: Theoretical and Empirical Problems Surrounding Individual Stigma, Group Stereotypes, Broader-Collective “Orientalism.”

2. Resource Variations: Human ...

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