ople often inherit the level of jobs from their parents. For example, once the upper class has established itself, they have the power to increase their wages and restrict entrance into their positions. Tumin’s theory can also be applied to the lower class, for they usually do not have the resources necessary to obtain the required education and networking to get the high paying jobs.Davis and Moore would not completely oppose policies to reduce poverty, because the reduction of poverty would not necessarily take away the motivation for people to work towards careers in what they deem to be the most important professions. It is not necessary for everyone to be paid equally for inequality to be reduced in the US, but rather the lower classes need to have the opportunity to move up socioeconomically and into any profession that they wish (i.e. equal opportunity and equally access). Lower class workers are not any less motivated by the rewards of high paying professions than the upper class—actually, they can often be more motivated in attempt to escape their socioeconomic state. But the lower class do not have the opportunities to gain the necessary qualifications (that the upper class tend to set as the norm) for those professions....
