Social status and social change

The two models of social change presented in this paper are intended for rather different purposes. Roughly speaking, there are three issues: (1) the mechanisms of social mobility; (2) the amount of social interaction of persons in a given system; and (3) the increasing or decreasing rigidity of cla...

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Published in:Behavioral Science 1963, Vol.8 (1), p.1-13
Main Authors: Beshers, James M., Reiter, Stanley
Format: Article
Language:English
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Model/Modeling/Models
Process/Processes
Social change
Social mobility
Social status
Stochastic
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Summary:The two models of social change presented in this paper are intended for rather different purposes. Roughly speaking, there are three issues: (1) the mechanisms of social mobility; (2) the amount of social interaction of persons in a given system; and (3) the increasing or decreasing rigidity of class boundaries over time. The first model considers the first two issues, and is designed to predict the future status distribution of a population under fixed social mobility conditions. But these conditions do change, and they change at least partly as a result of transitions between social classes. Therefore, a second model is proposed which takes into account the ability of people in a social class to influence the processes which govern transitions to or from that class.
ISSN:0005-7940
1099-1743
1932-300X
DOI:10.1002/bs.3830080102