key sociologist approach to social stratification

Davis and Moore

functionalism

1945

Davis and Moore Theory

education is used to allocate people to jobs and roles that are best suited to thier abilities. This is known as role allocation.

Criticism of Davis and Moore's approach to social stratification

many jobs that are vital to society have relatively low pay (for eg. nursing) or low status ( for eg. rubbish collection).

marxist and feminist perspective see stratification as a system in which some groups in society ( eg bourgeoisie or men) gain at the expense of others.

Davis and Moore assume society is meritocratic but criticis…