Exam 10: Contemporary Explanations of Inequality

As did Durkheim, Davis and More saw that an unequal distribution of rewards was necessary for a well-ordered society, for certain individual to do certain tasks or to do more than others. Does inequality serve a function then?

In dual labor market theories, the primary labor market is limited to a certain sector of the private economy. What is another name for this market and an illustrative industry or company?

Tilly identifies two mechanisms that produce "durable" inequality, exploitation and opportunity hoarding. What is the latter and how does it relate to exploitation?

When examining a society with a functionalist framework, what do we see?

One of the main problems of the Davis-Moore Theory can be seen in the example of a CEO who requires a $1 million salary. What is their yardstick for the CEO's functional necessity?

The essential premise of neoclassical labor market theories is that "you take out what you put in"? What makes this unrealistic in practice?

What theories of global inequality describe a core group of countries (which control the world economy), and periphery nations (which provide labor, natural resources, and services)?

In Bourdieu's theory of social reproduction, what is an individual's habitus?

A social constructionist approach looks at what first in explaining how as well as why inequality is produced?

Which of the following describes the primary mechanism that transforms race and gender into subjective rankings that are higher or lower in status and so produce inequalities?

What other weakness can be found in the Davis-Moore theory?

What does it mean when people are "doing race" or "doing gender" from a sociological perspective?

Tumin noted in Davis and Moore that stratification weakens the self-image of those at the bottom. How might full equality weaken self-image, too?

What does a social reproduction theory seek to explain?

How do schools function as a means of social reproduction?