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teebee · Mar 12, 2013, 10:34 AM

Hi,
I am looking for some honest feedback on the following:
Thoughts about the connection between pay and social class? Describe the primary reasons salary and rewards may vary between positions.

odinn7 · Mar 12, 2013, 10:40 AM

Sounds almost like a homework question.

teebee · Mar 12, 2013, 10:45 AM

Well its for a dissertation... so if you want to help that would be great. If not, thanks.

joypulv · Mar 12, 2013, 10:58 AM

(This site does have a homework section.) >moved to that section. -WG<

It's important to know why you are asking - a dissertation requires a lot of research and thought beyond the scope of an 'answer' site, even if responders have ideas. You might get a few quick thoughts, but you have probably covered them already, so it's wasted time for everybody. 'Primary reasons' for higher pay scales are skill and scarcity of workers. If you are asking about a highly skilled/educated person who comes from a social class that is different from others in that job group, that's another matter. If you are asking about a social group that is highly skilled but still poorly paid, such as rug weavers working at home or in village settings, that is another matter. If it's a bunch of stock brokers working with a talented person from another culture who speaks the language poorly and looks 'different' to them, that's another. You could write an entire dissertation on a subset of any of this.

teebee · Mar 12, 2013, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by joypulv

(This site does have a homework section.)

It's important to know why you are asking - a dissertation requires a lot of research and thought beyond the scope of an 'answer' site, even if responders have ideas. You might get a few quick thoughts, but you have probably covered them already, so it's wasted time for everybody. 'Primary reasons' for higher pay scales are skill and scarcity of workers. If you are asking about a highly skilled/educated person who comes from a social class that is different from others in that job group, that's another matter. If you are asking about a social group that is highly skilled but still poorly paid, such as rug weavers working at home or in village settings, that is another matter. If it's a bunch of stock brokers working with a talented person from another culture who speaks the language poorly and looks 'different' to them, that's another. You could write an entire dissertation on a subset of any of this.

Thanks joypulv
I was actually trying to do somewhat of a survey to add saying that I polled this many people and insert quotes. Something like that. Thanks anyway!

joypulv · Mar 12, 2013, 11:22 AM

I don't get it. How do you 'poll people' about such a diverse and complicated subject...

Wondergirl · Mar 12, 2013, 11:26 AM

And it depends on which country or countries you are writing about.

ebaines · Mar 12, 2013, 01:26 PM

You seem to be asking two different questions:

"Thoughts about the connection between pay and social class?" Some class definitions are purely economic - the rich, middle class, and poor for example, but are these examples of "social" classes? Class may also be based on one's overall wealth or ability to pay (such as membership in an elite country club or on the board of a major philanthropy). Other class definitions have little connection to pay - such as education and religious class. And some are a mix - such as class based on occupation (blue-collar versus white-collar versus professional).

"Describe the primary reasons salary and rewards may vary between positions. " Now this sounds more like a treatise on pay scales, having nothing to do with "social class." I don't understand why you're mixing this in.