Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
‘Social inequality is the device by which societies ensure that the most important positions are filled by the most qualified persons.’ Explain this view point and state the grounds on which it is refuted.
- UPSC 1992
- Stratification and Mobility
The statement condenses the thesis of Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore ("Some Principles of Stratification", 1945), who called inequality an unconsciously evolved device of this kind. It is, in essence, a meritocratic justification of inequality, and its critics have challenged each link in the chain.
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