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Outline and Assess Whether stratification is either inevitable or beneficial to individuals and society?
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Sociology homework:-essay questions Outline and Assess Whether stratification is either inevitable or beneficial to individuals and society? Functionalism would argue that stratification is both inevitable and beneficial to individuals and society. Functionalist theorist such as Davies and Moore say that stratification is a permanent and universal feature of human societies, and this is because it is functionally necessary. They go on to say that stratification is inevitable because every society faces the task of 'placing' people, i.e. putting people in jobs that they are suited to and are able to carry out efficiently. In order for society to motivate these people to carry out these important jobs respectably they offer higher rewards, such as higher status and higher income. For example a company director supervises hundreds of employee's while a bin man makes sure the bins are being emptied properly, the company director could easily do the bin mans...
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