Inequality: Functionalism
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- Created on: 02-06-22 12:25
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- Inequality: Functionalism
- Gender
- Murdock
- Gender division of labour - studied gender roles in over 200 societies & found women were located in the home because of their biological role of children bearing
- Parsons & Bales
- Expressive & instrumental roles
- Rastogi
- Human capital is 'knowledge, competency, attitude and behaviour embedded in an individual'
- Oakley
- Critiques functionalism, stating that gender roles are socially constructed
- Murdock
- Age
- Parsons
- Focus on society's role in managing age issues & the bridge between childhood & adulthood
- Eisenstadt
- Agrees with Parsons, saying that differential age groups learn new roles that lead to further cohesion and solidarity in society
- Cummings & Henry
- Disengagement theory - with ageing, a persons abilities deteriorate, and they need to be relieved
- Philipson
- Critiques this, arguing that the elderly have historically been used as a reserve army of labour, but this has grown in recent years - age inequality can be seen as a social construction to benefit the bourgeoise
- Parsons
- Ethnicity
- Patterson
- The Host Immigration Model - the host feared change immigrants would bring, resented having to compete for jobs and their failure to assimilate
- Functionalist view
- The early ethnic inequalities experienced by immigrants were the product of their cultural difference and relatively low level of skills
- In meritocratic society ethnic inequalities would decline as immigrants adopted the norms and values of mainstream society and climbed their way up the career ladder
- Patterson
- Social Class
- Parsons
- Vale consensus & stratification - those better at achieving things are worthy of reward
- Davis & Moore
- Allocates people in the right roles so they can be performed to the highest standard.
- Tumin
- Critiques Davis & Moore arguing whether it is possible to determine the functional importance of a position
- Parsons
- Gender
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