1. Table 5-1. Kerbo’s Chapter 5 Outline: Modern (U. S
Table 5-1. Kerbo’s Chapter 5 Outline: Modern (U.S.) Stratification Theories
Early Stratification Studies:
Conflict: Veblen’s Leisure Class, Lynd’s Middletown
Order: Warner’s Yankee City
Functional Model
Davis and Moore; Parsons
Critics
Occupational Prestige and SES
Conflict Model
Hunter
Mills
Debates
Basis of inequality
Theories of class

2. Figure 5-1. Davis and Moore’s Functional Model of Inequality
Distribution
Of Rewards +
Recruitment of
Best and Brightest -
Change in
Supply and
Demand

3. Table 5-2. Model Assumptions for Davis and Moore’s Functional Model of Social Stratification
1. Differential Functional Importance of Positions (Occupations)
2. Limited Supply of Qualified Persons
3. Differential Cost of Training Persons for Different Positions
4. Need to Induce Qualified to Bear Costs of Training
5. Inducements Include Subsistence/Luxury, Fun, Fame
6. Distribution of these Goodies as Inducements is Basis for Stratification
7. Thus Inequality is Inevitable and Functional (Necessary and Desirable)

4. Table 5-3. Parsons’ Functional Model Assumptions
Placement is Based on Moral Evaluation by Others
Moral Evaluation is Based on Shared Value System (Consensus)
Value System is Based in Dominant Institution (in Particular Time and Place)
Exemplary (in these terms) are Awarded High Status, Income, Wealth

5. Figure 5-2. Dahrendorf’s Model of Class Conflict
Authority
Conflict
Subordinate

6. Figure 5-3. C. Wright Mills Model of the Power Elite
Government Leaders
Economic Leaders
Cultural Leaders

7. Figure 5-4. Conflict Functional Model of Inequality
Distribution
Of Rewards +
Status Quo -
Mass Political
Movements

8. Figure 5-5. Dahrendorf’s Model of Class Conflict and Social Change
Collapse
New
Authority
Social
Movement
Routinization
Established
Authority
Charismatic
Leader

9. Figure 5-6. Blau and Duncan’s Model of Socio- Economic Status
Average
Education
For Occupation
Popular
Perception of
Occupation’s
Prestige
Average Income
For Occupation
Prestige = constant + B1 (Education) + B 2 (Income) +/- measurement error

10. Power-Conflict Theory
Table 5-4. Class, Status and Power Dimensions Stressed in Stratification Paradigms (from Kerbo, p. 131)
Value Assumptions
Critical
Uncritical
Model
Assumptions
Order
Does Not Exist
Functional Theory
Status Honor
Conflict
Ruling Class Theory
Class
Power-Conflict Theory
Power

11. Positions in three main types of institutional structures
Table 5-5. The Convergence of Occupational, Bureaucratic, and Property Divisions on Class Categories
Positions in three main types of institutional structures
Class categories
Occupation
Bureaucratic
Authority
Property
Relation
Upper Class
High
Owner
Corporate Class
Non-Owner
Middle Class
High to Mid
Mid
Working Class
Mid to Low
Low
Lower Class

12. Relations of Production
Table 5-6. Wright’s Class Categories, Defined by Ownership, Employees, Skill, and Persons Supervised
Relations of Production
Class
Owns M.O.P.
Employs Workers
Skill Level
Supervises Others
Capitalist
Yes
Many
Variable
Usually
Petty-Bourgeois
Few
Professional No
Expert
Manager
Supervisor
Low
Skilled Worker
Medium
Worker

13. Figure 5-7. Wright’s Model of Class Relations
Artisanal
Capitalist
State Socialist
Petty Bourgeois
Employer
Manager
Professional
Worker
Skilled Worker
Worker
Source: Erik Olin Wright, “Varieties of Marxist Conceptions,” in Social Stratification, Edited by David B. Grusky (Westview, 2001), p. 124