Showing papers on "Vertical mobility published in 1972"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors attempted to determine whether dimensions of social rank combine additively in influencing individual attitudes and behaviors, or whether statistical interactions appear which would support hypotheses of vertical mobility or status inconsistency effects.
Abstract: This study attempts to determine whether dimensions of social rank combine additively in influencing individual attitudes and behaviors, or whether statistical interactions appear which would support hypotheses of vertical mobility or status inconsistency effects. Samples of male heads of household were interviewed in three Indiana and three Arizona communities, roughly matched in size. Two forms of mobility (career and intergenerational) were employed and six forms of inconsistency (including achieved vs. ascribed forms). Fortythree dependent variables were used, including most of the variables previously suggested as consequences of mobility or inconsistency. Most of the relationships appeared to be additive. The interactions which did appear were not clustered with respect to any particular independent or dependent variables, usually varied in form from city to city, and did not resemble patterns expected on the basis of mobility or inconsistency theory. The findings suggest that multidimensional additive models adequately represent the effects of social stratification on the individual.
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TL;DR: In the last two or three decades the empirical investigation of vertical mobility on the societal level has enjoyed a veritable boom, particularly among &dquo;western&dquoe; sociologists as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: During the last two or three decades the empirical investigation of vertical mobility on the societal level has enjoyed a veritable boom, particularly among &dquo;Western&dquo; sociologists. Numerous national studies 1 and international comparisons 2 have been presented during this time. Nevertheless, the culminating point of this period seems to have been reached with the detailed empirical study by Peter M. Blau and Otis D. Duncan (1967), which was carried out in 1962. During the last few years quite a considerable number of sociologists have begun to show a certain uneasiness about the prevalently atheoretical research practice of the preceding period (e.g. Ammassari, 1967; Bolte and Kreckel, 1968 ; Cutright, 1968; Goldthorpe, 1966 ; Mayer and Mul-
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