low rates of social mobility. When those of low rank have little chance to move up social hierarchies or to enter a new class, party, or status group, then resentment accumulates (Turner, 1991, p. 197).
A child who experiences abuse can be said to hoard valuable resources, unless that resource is interpreted as a positive attitude toward society. Further, the experience of the denial of social and material prestige may have an effect on the abuser. Margolin (413ff) cites Weber's bureaucratic model for the overrationalized society in a study of physical abuse of children by male (as opposed to female) heads of household. The principal thread of argument is that the culture of violence in general and power relationships in particular, overbalanced in favor of men in American society, aggravate the fact that males are not rewarded and are not socialized to provide or manifest nurturing actions. This failure of linkage carries the potential for child abuse. Feeling powerless, in other words, in an environment that celebrates power and money, the male in a household may
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