Autori: Corten, Rense, Maas, Ineke, Snijders, Chris
Titolo: Status Attainment as a Competitive Process. A Theoretical and Empirical Study on the Implications of Boudon's Status Attainment Model
Periodico: Sociologica
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 20 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 0

The typical status attainment approach assumes a purely individual-level process, disregardingthat individuals are interdependent because status positions are scarce. In line witharguments by Thurow [1975] and Coleman [1987] we reanalyze and extend Boudon's [1974]model in which status attainment is modeled as a competitive process. We use computer simulationsto derive testable predictions from this model under different circumstances. In linewith previous studies, we find that Boudon's assertion that mobility is not affected by educationalinequality does not hold in all circumstances. Furthermore, we extend Boudon's modelby allowing the distribution of jobs to shift upwards (in line with modernization arguments),and find that this has complex and counterintuitive effects on status inequality. We test thehypotheses that we derive from the simulation on comparative data. Although not all hypothesesare supported, the results do lend support to the notion that status attainment is indeed acompetitive process.




SICI: 1971-8853(2013)20:3<0:SAAACP>2.0.ZU;2-U
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