1)What is the Davis-Moore thesis?
 
 
 
 

2)What are the three kinds of rewards a society has at its disposal to secure essential personnel and services?
 
 
 
 

3)What are two factors that determine the relative rank of different positions in a society?
 
 
 
 

4)Is functional importance a determining factor in rank? Why or why not?
 
 
 
 
 

5)Give an example of a functionally important job in all societies that is ranked low.
 
 
 
 

6)What are the two ways that people may have qualifications for a position?
 
 
 
 

7)What combination of factors must be present for the highest prestige jobs?
 
 
 
 

8)How do we understand the variations in stratification  between societies?
 
 
 
 
 
 

CRITICAL RESPONSE BY MELVIN TUMIN
 
 

1)What does it mean to say that "the fact of inequality in human society is marked by its ubiquity and its antiquity"?
 
 

2)What is Davis and Moore’s first proposition?
 
 
 
 
 

3)What is Tumin’s response?
 
 
 
 

4)What is Davis and Moore’s second proposition?
 
 
 
 

5)What is Tumin’s response?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

6)What is Davis and Moore’s third proposition?
 
 
 
 
 

7)What is Tumin’s response?
 
 
 
 
 
 

8)What is Davis and Moore’s fourth proposition?
 
 
 
 
 

9)What is Tumin’s response?
 
 
 
 
 
 

10)What are Davis and Moore’s fifth and sixth propositions?
 
 
 
 
 

11)What is Tumin’s response?
 
 
 
 
 
 

12)What is Davis and Moore’s seventh proposition?
 
 
 
 
 

13)What is Tumin’s response?
 
 
 
 
 

14)What would Marx’s response be?
 
 
 
 
 

15)Davis and Moore focus only on the positive functions of inequality. According to Tumin, what are four dysfunctions of stratification?