Basic Attainment Processes: A Replication and Extension

摘要: Longitudinal survey data on a national sample of youth, first sampled as high-school sophomores in 1955 and followed up 1970, were employed replication extension the Blau Duncan "basic model" status attainment process. Most analysis was consistent with previous inquiries this area, while "discrepancies" suggest possible changes dynamics over time need to qualify interpretation such analyses reference "substantively relevant" characteristics samples employed. Finally, an inspection selected interactions process model suggested both their importance particular instance and, more generally, utility pursuing suspected deviations from "linear-addiuity. "