Metabolism Indices and the Annexation of Austria
A Note on Method
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7621288 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Y Hartshorne (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1940 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 899-917 |
| Publication date | 1940-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/218493 |
| OpenAlex | W2053663696 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
"Social metabolism" refers to shifts in the personnel composition of groups; "social mobility," to the movement of individuals from one group or status to another. The first lays emphasis on the group, with its fluctuating personnel; the second, on the individual, with his varying statuses. This distincion is recognized in economic literature as that between "turnover" and "mobility" of labor. Despite the generally recognized importance of social metabolism, in various empirical fields, no satisfactory statistical ratio has been found which expresses all the essential relationships involved. The three "turnover rates" proposed by economists (separation, replacement, and flux) all have their shortcomings, as do similar rates used by sociologists. A new compound turnover index and its converse, a stability index, are here proposed. Their descriptive utility is illustrated in a brief analysis of personnel changes in Austrian university faculties before and during the process of Nazification
Annexation · Converse · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economics · Index (typography) · Management · Political science · Sociology · Turnover · Computer Science · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research · Social and Cultural Dynamics
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1953 - 1954 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |