The Measurement of Stratification in Formal Organizations

Recent reviews of the field known as social confirm the impression that overwhelming attention has been given to the description of status levels in the local community (3, 9, 17). But the problem of stratification within formal organizations has not been accorded the same attention. The consequence of this stress on the community is that many of our propositions about status in formal organizations have remained largely matters of assertion, or of informal demonstration. Thus, Barnard's (2) stimulating analysis of status in industry has not been tested in any systematic way; and those empirical studies which have focused on intra-organizational status—e.g., Stanton and Schwartz's study of the mental hospital (16)—with all their challenge and sophistication, still suffer the defects of unstandardized observational procedures

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