The davis-moore thesis states:

a. that economic hardship and skyrocketing inflation is the cause for all social stratification in the united states.

b. that people constantly move up and down the social ladder, and this creates an unstable economy which will eventually collapse on itself.

c. that karl marx was correct and that stratification can only be solved by converting to a socialist government.

d. that the more society values a particular profession, the more the people in that profession will make.

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Niko Trevino

28 September, 02:13

The davis-moore thesis states:

a. that economic hardship and skyrocketing inflation is the cause for all social stratification in the united states.

b. that people constantly move up and down the social ladder, and this creates an unstable economy which will eventually collapse on itself.

c. that karl marx was correct and that stratification can only be solved by converting to a socialist government.

d. that the more society values a particular profession, the more the people in that profession will make.

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Jaelyn Silva · Answer 1

This is more commonly known as Davis-Moore theory. It talks about the central assertion within the structural functionalist model of sociological theory, and was advanced in 1945 by Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore. It states that the more society standards a specific profession, the more the people in that occupation will make. So therefore, the answer is d.