Jati atroouction to sociology Conflict Explanation of Social Stratification Deals with two other problems with the functionalist theory of stratification: why inequality in most societies is much greater than it has to be to motivate people (and why it varies between societies) how replaceability can be manipulated how scarcity can be socially producedConflict Explanation of Social Stratification Deals with two other problems with the functionalist theory of stratification: • why inequality in most societies is much greater than it has to be to motivate people (and why it varies between societies) • how replaceability can be manipulated, how scarcity can be socially produced