General Flashcards
Absolute poverty
Seebohm Rowntree
Relative poverty
Peter Townsend
Functionalist theories of stratification
T Parsons
Davis & Moore
T Parsons
Value consensus
Davis & Moore
Eff Role allocation & performance
Differential rewards
Critic of both
Melvin Tumin
Social status instead of eco class as basis of SS
WL Warner
3 determinants of status(edu, occup, income)
Stratif acc to Weber based on
Class(eco pos)
Status(social honor)
Party(pol power)
Bio vs social inequalities
JJ Rousseau
Poverty theories
Oscar Lewis(cultural persp)
Herbert Gans(functional persp)
Oscar Lewis
study of Mexican cities
not due to indiv shortcomings but due to larger social atmos in which children are socialised
Herbert Gans
Povert persists coz rewarding for majority of sections wanting various kinds of services