Status Attainment Research and its Image of Society
揭示了Blau和Duncan以及Sewell等人的地位获得研究背后隐含的社会形象，指出该传统受二战后社会学思潮影响，将社会描绘为流动、稳定且日益中产阶级化的图景。
This paper delineates the image of society underlying status attainment research as found in the formulations of Blau and Duncan and the Wisconsin research program of Sewell and associates. The image of the social structure and social actor underlying this research tradition is influenced by certain popular themes in post-World War II sociological thought. Society is depicted as fluid, stable, and becoming increasingly middle class due to technological progress, the rise of universalistic standards, and the growing importance of education. In particular, mass society theory helped shape the optimistic image of modern, mass, industrial society upon which status attainment research rests.