Genius Hour Reflection

I liked Mr. Vinluan's comment about focusing on the Federal Reserve's role in social stratification. So I spent time researching specifically what the social stratification is: how it occurs and what it causes. The Davis-Moore thesis is based on the structural functional approach, that it creates benefits for all of society if the best people have motivation to do the most important jobs. Unfortunately this approach pretends we live in pure meritocracy, but it is more defined by long-standing institutions. The awareness of these traditional institutions requires sociological imagination. Karl Marx offers a social conflict approach to social stratification: the bourgeoisie in power and the proletariat oppressed. I read more about how the Federal Reserve was offering too low of interest rates inflated the housing bubble, and how this furthers social stratification by keeping the poor in their state.