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Explain Melvin Tumin’s critique related to the theory of social stratification.

  • UPSC 2002
  • Stratification and Mobility

Melvin M. Tumin's "Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis" (American Sociological Review, 1953) is the most systematic reply to the functional theory of Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore (1945). He took each of their propositions in turn and argued that stratification, far from being a neutral device for allocating talent, often obstructs the…

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  • Proposition-by-proposition critique
  • Dysfunctions of stratification
  • The debate
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