Class Inequality By Davis And Moore

Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore article “Some principles of stratification” informs us how important inequality is. People need to be in different social positions to balance out and make the society function. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels article, “The class struggle,” on the other side, begins with the two social classes; along with how unfair and corrupted the system is benefiting, and damaging the rest of the people. By inheritance and effort, people will always be in different social statuses, but changes will only happen when people unite to make the difference.
Davis and Moore’s model of stratification includes rewarding people when they accomplished bigger challenges. In order for the person to perform a task they need to feel motivated. This includes not only family motivation but the resources that they have making the process smoother. For example, a medical doctor will not waste 22 years of his life in school if in the end they make the same as a janitor (lectures) In order to succeed, there needs to be a big reward waiting in the end as part of the motivation to reach their goal. These rewards includes money, prestige and power (lectures) People will feel motivation knowing it will pay off, such as making them icons and great examples for the rest of the society. To guarantee that those positions get fulfilled, these rewards must be handed out.
Davis and Moore focused on the issue of supply and demand. The less people performing the same type of job the more rewards they will receive (Lectures) High supply of candidates that perform the job, the less rewards they will get. For example, take in comparison basketball players versus garbage pickers. Basketball players receive more prestige, and money than the garbage...

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...strongly agrees that the only way to overthrow the means of production by a revolution making the production a public property (lectures) Giving every person equal opportunities as anyone else. The masses need to unite and come together to succeed. The bourgeoisie being the few controlling the many (workers) leading us to social institutions, keeping thee unfair going because when one is affected so is the rest. The values of society support the system.
Marx critique on Davis and Moore would be that is unfair because of social stratification is unfair limiting the poor, women and color people for the same opportunities as the wealthy white elites (lectures) whites born in a system which automatically benefiting them resulting of unequal distribution affecting the “others.” Due to the positions that are fulfill people will be excluded instead of feeling motivated.