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Status Attainment
Comparison Essay # 11610
Status Attainment
Sociological study of relationship of individual success, socioeconomic mobility, role of family, gender, Canada & U.S. compared.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
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1996
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"Sociologists have for a long time been anxious to understand why some individual achieve success and others fail. As a sub-classification of questions surrounding social mobility, the specific issue of "status attainment" was first formulated by the pioneer work of Blau and Duncan (1967). They asserted that the best question to ask is not "How are people mobile?" but rather "How do people attain their statuses?" (Stark, 1996, p. 280). Their revised question enabled researchers to ascertain "how people acquire a status with or without being mobile" (Stark, 1996, p. 200). Since Blau and Duncan's landmark study and their presentation of an initial research model into this sociological field of inquiry, additional variables have been included to both broaden and intensify the field. One factor which appears to..."More papers on Status Attainment:
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