Criticism to the Functional Theory of Stratification
• The theory simply supports privileged position of people who already have power, prestige, and money. In fact people can be motivated by the satisfaction of doing a job well, etc.
• It assumes from the first that simply because social stratification has existed in the past, it has tocontinue in the future.
• It excludes a possibility of change.
• The theory seems to imply that the cleaning workers are less important than the advertising executives for the society. This idea is difficult to agree.