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STATUS INCONSISTENCY AND SPEECH VARIATION
Abstract
While the study of status inconsistency is a recent phenomenon within the field of social stratification, man has from the time of the early Greeks recognized the importance of the evaluations of others. Stratification deals with these evaluations as they are related to the various rankings of individuals within collectivities. Sociologists have long been interested in the importance of an individual's rank within a collectivity, or his status. It has been within the past fifteen or twenty years that there has been serious empirical research on the effects of discrepant ranks. Thus, status inconsistency, the term referring to this phenomenon, can be defined as the holding, by an individual, or inconsistent rankings on different status dimensions.
Subject Area
Sociology
Recommended Citation
STERN, SAMUEL EDWARD, "STATUS INCONSISTENCY AND SPEECH VARIATION" (1969). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI7012286.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI7012286