The Davis-Moore Thesis
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The Davis-Moore thesis holds that stratification is functional because unequal rewards motivate the most capable people to fill the most demanding positions.
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Positions requiring long training carry higher rewards, which the thesis reads as the incentive that fills them.
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The thesis explains why inequality exists and does not establish that its current size is necessary.
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- 0858 Objections to Davis-Moore
- 0885 Stratification Through Three Lenses
- 0890 Two Households
- 1048 Functionalism on Race and Ethnicity
- 1098 Functionalism on Gender
- 1297 Functionalism on Family
- 1329 Functionalism on Religion
- 1367 Functionalism on Education: Manifest Functions
- 1516 Functionalism on Government
- 1540 Functionalism on the Economy
- 1608 Functionalism on Health
- 1703 Functionalism on Media and Technology
- 1747 Human Ecology
- 1774 Population, Urbanization, and the Environment Through Three Lenses
- 1785 Value-Added Theory
- 1901 A Factory Closes: Structure, Stratification, and the Life Course
- 1946 Three Generations: A Family Across the Whole Course