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Social Institutions in Contemporary Australia
Quick questions on Social Stratification and Inequality - TCE Sociology (Tasmania) - Level 3
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What is the functionalist defence?Show answer
Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore offered a functionalist justification: stratification is necessary and beneficial because it motivates the most talented people to train for the most important jobs by rewarding them more highly. Critics reply that this ignores inherited advantage, that the highest paid roles are not always the most functionally important, and that poverty wastes talent rather than rewarding it.
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