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Stratification: Functional and Conflict Theories

2019· other· en· W3110840973 on OpenAlexaff
Lesley Andres

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology · 2019
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIntergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStructural functionalismConflict theoriesSocial stratificationFunctionalism (philosophy of mind)HierarchyFormal educationPerspective (graphical)SociologyStatus attainmentSocial classSocial statusEducational attainmentSocial hierarchyPsychologySocial psychologySocial scienceSocioeconomic statusPolitical sciencePedagogyEconomic growthEconomicsConflict resolution

Abstract

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Functionalism and social conflict theory provide alternate explanations regarding the relationship among formal education, skill acquisition, and occupational status. From a functionalist perspective, ever increasing technological advances in society demand a continual shift in the proportion of low‐skill jobs to high‐skill jobs. Formal education provided in educational institutions plays a central role by producing individuals with high‐level generic or specific skills. Stratification into the hierarchy of positions is related to acquired levels of formal education and more prestigious positions require higher and more specialized training. From a social conflict theory perspective, the central role of formal education is not to create skilled individuals for the labor force. Rather, ascriptive factors are largely responsible for the enduring relationship between social class and occupational attainment. The purpose of education is to instill the status culture of the dominant group into those destined for high level positions and to teach those relegated to lower positions to respect the values of the dominant group.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.547
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.322
Teacher spread0.281 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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