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‘Bringing Common Sense Back In’: some neglected assumptions in status inconsistency theory and research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Ekkart Zimmermann
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In recent years status inconsistency theory and research has come under attack for at least three major reasons:

(a) It has been shown that the effects of status inconsistency, if there are any (cf. under (c)), cannot be detected by following the prevailing procedures of analysis, i.e. tabular analysis (camparisons-of-sums method; cf. Lenski 1954 (1)) or linear equation models (regression approach). By now the criticism in the works of Blalock (1966a, 1966b, 1967a, 1967b, 1967c), Mitchell (1964) and Hyman (1966) is well-known (2).

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Le prix moral de l'égalité
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , May 1978 , pp. 52 - 73
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Copyright © Archives Européenes de Sociology 1978

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