By James F. Eder
This ebook documents the emergence and institutionalization of social inequality in San Jose, a pioneer farming village positioned on Palawan Island within the Philippines. Early chapters reconstruct the historic situations surrounding San Jose's payment and progress below stipulations of relative equality of chance. The community's improvement is tested intimately during the studies of 8 migrant farmers, all self-made males a few conspicuous successes, others conspicuous mess ups. evaluating and comparing the explanations of pioneers' successes and screw ups, Professor Eder stresses that the origins of inequality in San Jose depended much less upon the contributors' time of arrival or quantities of beginning capital or different such components than it did upon own modifications. Social inequality, for the main half, had its foundation in a degree of motivation and in a type of 'on-the-job competence' that a few women and men delivered to the frontier and others didn't.
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But income and social status are less clearly associated at the lower end of the status order. If we take an income of 600 pesos per consumption unit as a dividing line between the middle and the lower status groups, only four of the fourteen middle-group households fall below this line, and only one of the thirteen lower-group households falls above it. 2 indicates a progressive decline in the reliability of income as an indicator of social status. In part, this is because raters considered source as well as amount of income in making their status placements.
All they have to sell is their land. Some of them don't even have that anymore. A quiet man with an infectious smile, Jovencio speaks with the resignation of one beaten by life: What is life here like? Well, pretty much like Cuyo, I guess. Look for rice, look for money - it's just the same. Well, things are a little easier here. In Cuyo, money was really hard to come by. Here, there are a lot of chances to work. But for poor men like me, it's hard to keep up. I don't have a lot of land, like the others.
All such raters placed Andres Rabang in their high group and Jovencio Cena in their low group. " Middle-group men lack the economic security of upper-group farmers but are not always "caught short" as are lower-group farmers. " How do these local views of the social status order relate to the various analytical dimensions of inequality that have, since Marx and Weber, dominated our thinking on the subject? Independently obtained data on wealth and income confirm our expectation that economic conditions are a key determinant of status placements.