Unlike davis-moore, melvin tumin believed that, because of social stratification, some qualified people were higher-level job positions.

denied the opportunity to obtain

Explanation:

Social stratification will separate different groups of people into different statuses, in which some group tend to have higher statuses than another groups.

Because of this, high level job positions in the companies tend to be offered to the group with high status first before they're offered to the group with lower status.

This made some qualified people in lower status often lose the jobs to less qualified people with high status.

answer; higher rate;