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Hierarchy of Social Classes with Corresponding Needs

Hierarchy of Social Classes with Corresponding Needs

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This paper shows the fundamental, yet overlooked relations between the theory of needs and the theory of social stratification. The distributions of human needs and the synthesis between these distributions and social stratification suggests that hierarchical representations that are attributed to Maslow and Marx on needs and classes cause a misund...

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... us now show the relations between human needs and social class structures. Fig. 3 gives a visual explanation. It is not surprising to realize that different social classes have different needs and that the hierarchical needs theory of Maslow (1954) is valid for societies as well as individuals. Modern research on human needs appeared relatively lately compared to the studies on social classes and political ...

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