Can Sociology Find True Happiness with Subjective Status Inconsistency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9213481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Jean Blocker, T Blöcker (0009-0002-2650-4680, corresponding author), Paul L Riedesel (University of Tulsa) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 275-291 |
| Publication date | 1978-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Pacific Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-8919 • E-ISSN: 2330-0736 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1388848 |
| OpenAlex | W2328883520 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 26 |
For years the concept of status inconsistency (SI) has held the imagination of numerous American sociologists. As an explicitly nonvertical aspect of social stratification, it appeared to add a new and potentially valuable dimension to sociological analysis. However, the existing research literature has come under increasingly heavy fire for its methodological and theoretical shortcomings. Most damaging have been charges of inappropriate statistical design wherein vertical stratification variables have not been properly controlled. It has also been alleged that the causal or cognitive links between states of SI and various social
Economics · Epistemology · Happiness · Positive economics · Sociology · Cultural Differences and Values · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences
Methodology in social research
Social behavior
Continuities in Theories of Status Consistency and Cognitive Dissonance
The Justice Process
Social Differentiation and Stratification
A Social Psychology of Prejudice
Objective and Subjective Status Inconsistency
Status Consistency
A Theory of Social Comparison Processes
Social Theory and Social Structure
The Identification Problem and Theory Building
Effects of Vertical Mobility and Status Inconsistency
Socioeconomic-Ethnic Status Inconsistency and Preference for Political Change
Status Consistency and Political Attitudes
Alienation
Some Questionable Assumptions in the Theory of Status Inconsistency
Status Among Clerical Workers
The Consequences of Objective and Subjective Status Inconsistency
Status Inconsistency
Status Inconsistency and Lower-Class Leftist Radicalism
Some Real and Imaginary Consequences of Social Mobility
Status Inconsistency and Ethnoreligious Group Membership as Determinants of Social Participation and Political Attitudes
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2018 (35) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |