Classic Equity Theory And Status Value Theory

Rather, Equity, and the sense of fairness which commonly underpins motivation, is dependent on the comparison a person makes between his or her reward/investment ratio with the ratio enjoyed (or suffered) by others considered to be in a similar situation”(Balancing Employee Inputs and Outputs).

This theory stems from the idea that individuals need fair treatment in order to be motivated,

“It’s hard to get right when the free folks out there are more trapped than the criminal folks in jail. I just want to be free” (Brown).

Privilege and entitlement is identified as “the accrual of benefits solely because of membership in a dominant group” ( (Lindsey, Robins, & Terrell, 2009) as identified by race, gender, language, social class and physical ability. The acknowledgement of power and entitlement is considered to be the first step in being able to bring about changes in equalizing the power struggle between the dominant and non-dominant members of an educational institution and further in society.

The idea of social inequality dates back since the time of our founding fathers. The mistreatment and unlawful equality and opportunity that these foreigners received became embedded into our history—this endless list includes, just to name a few, the Irish, Chinese, Jews, and most notably the African Americans (Blacks), who became slaves to the American people. Here in the United States, the current social class system is known as the class system, where families are distributed and placed into three different existing class—the upper class (wealthy), middle class (working), and lower class (poor). Since then, improvisations have been worked on into the class system, establishing now roughly six social classes: upper class, new money, middle class, working class, working poor, and poverty level. Social stratification is a widely common topic of debate because there have since been many arguments and debates on this controversial situation of social inequality and how it relates to social class and social mobility. According to Economist Robert Reich, he states that "The probability that a poor child in America will become a poor adult is higher now than it was 30 years ago..." (Reich, par. 5), meaning the given amount of equality, opportunity, and support that these struggle families obtain have gone mainly unnoticed by the government that it has gotten worst. The constant uproar of social inequality and injustice that these middle and lower working class families stem

I believe equity and expectancy theories are being used at Marshall Metro High School to motivate students and teachers, but inconsistently. Equity theory is the fairness of the input and output ratio of work in exchange for pay or rewards (Adams, 1965, as cited in Bretz & Thomas, 1992). I believe Marshall Metro High School has shown the use of the equity theory to motivate freshman teachers by giving them set goals, for example, what percentage of freshman is acceptable to keep on track for the tenth grade. This has motivated teachers to think outside the box and work very hard to achieve these goals, even though sometimes they were not achieved, they continued to try their hardest. However, the teachers seemed to be frustrated and demotivated by the actual results of their inputs. Perhaps the equity theory is more consistent when

An Assessment of an Ecological – Diverse Green School: A Part of Conscious Social Equity

Politician from all walks of life nowadays agree on one thing: we need to build more meritocratic societies. That is, societies where everyone, no matter what their background is, has the chance to succeed on their own merits. This is a beautiful idea responsible for some great things like free education for all, and a real effort to end nepotism in business and government. We have largely done away with the old world of feudalism where lords couldn't manage their estates, commanders couldn't understand the principles of battle, and peasant were brighter than their masters. No longer is background an impossible obstacle to advancement. An element of justice has finally entered into the distribution of rewards. It's been going on for about two

According to the textbook, You May Ask Yourself, a denotative definition for the word ascribed status is an involuntary position that someone is born into amongst society. For example, in the online video, Good Times, the family’s ascribed status was their race due to the fact that they were born with this sense of involuntary stature. On the other hand, You May Ask Yourself defines achieved status as a position by which someone voluntarily enters. In the video, the family illustrated achieved fitness since they were struggling to pay their rent due to finances, so the father had to hustle for money and the mother attempted to ask for money from welfare.

A functionalist perspective on social inequality would argue that inequality is necessary for the survival of any society. It is argued that without this inequality division of labour would be difficult, it is also argued that to attract people to both the important and less important roles there must be variation in rewards that motivates individuals to make the effort needed to gain the top positions. (Kent, 2006: 224)

With the context of previous research and literature regarding equity PDs in mind, this review will now examine both how schools and districts implement PDs with an equity lens and specific PD programs with a focus on equity. The following section highlights what local schools and schools from across the nation are doing to create more equitable environments for all persons involved.

Inequality in the society has been an issue since the history of the universe and as we think we are bridging the gap between the rich and the poor we always find out that it is as a wide as it was. The poor will always exist in the society as the inferior group while the rich are the superiors who control various aspects and sectors of the society.

Another factor that affects identity is social class. The Marxism assumption is that socio-economic position is a fundamental element to shape identity. People are not individuals, but part of a class. The Marxist ideology is that of “false consciousness”, this meaning that some classes, the lower, working class, are not aware of the position they have to society. As a result, this is why they often work in jobs that are underpaid. Some Marxist theorists believe that class identity is procreated in culture. Pierre Bourdieu believed that class identities are related to cultural activities. One’s cultural preferences are constructed and differentiated by class. Madame Bovary is a good example for this, as she classifies different groups of people socially. Her, being from a lower class, yearning for luxury and wealth. Paris is a place where the upper (middle) class lives a comfortable life, and where she later has an affair with Lèon. Another factor influencing class identity is access to education, which is not equal across the classes. People from the upper classes will have no problem providing their children with an education. Whereas the working class might have difficulties, for example with sending their children to University. Another interesting aspect is the correlation between social classes and voting, as studies have shown that not always do people vote according to their social class. For example, some lower class or “working class” are found to vote for

The fifth section is about the importance of social class and social justice in our society. Social class is one of the “isms” that people do not really think about even though people judge you based on this all the time in our society. The term social justice is used to help make things fair in our society. This term helps to advocate for the distribution of wealth or opportunities more equally in our society. In this section, it mentioned many biases that people have and that counselors typically learn these factors while on the job. This section mentioned one example of counselor bias, that clinicians are probably most familiar and comfortable when working with the

The entitlement philosophy accepts that employees are allowed to once a year increases in pay regardless of individual performance. Automatic increases, cost of living increases, and many misnamed merit systems fall under the entitlement philosophy. Employees accept their raises and bonuses in this system, seniority is rewarded, and performance is not highlighted. The pay for performance philosophy requires that compensation changes reflect individual performance alterations. Employees who perform well and live up to expectations would get larger raises than those performing poorly and don’t live up to expectations. Poorly performing employees may not receive any raise. It really depends the company because I worked for a company you got a