Network Persistence and the Axis of Hierarchy
How Orderly Stratification Is Implicit in Sticky Struggles
Published on 30. April 2020
Book
Hardback
372 pages
978-1-78527-196-0 (ISBN)
Description
Network Persistence and the Axis of Hierarchy shows how networks, modestly redefined as a strong, yet imperfect tendency for pairings to recur day after day, that is, stickiness, imply a singular axis of stratification. This is contrary to the nearly universal insistence that stratification is multidimensional. Reanalysis of three central mobility data sets sustains the novel claim. Network concepts provide a supple base for analysis whereby order and regularity are strongly sustained in network neighborhoods but are not necessarily uniform or universal. This provides new takes, often quite radical, on accounts of structure and order by authors such as Pierre Bourdieu, Randall Collins and Talcott Parsons.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
757 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78527-196-0 (9781785271960)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Steven Rytina
Network Persistence and the Axis of Hierarchy
How Orderly Stratification Is Implicit in Sticky Struggles
E-Book
04/2020
1st Edition
Anthem Press
€73.49
Available for download
Steven Rytina
Network Persistence and the Axis of Hierarchy
How Orderly Stratification Is Implicit in Sticky Struggles
E-Book
04/2020
1st Edition
Anthem Press
€73.49
Available for download
Person
Steven Rytina is retired from McGill University where he was associate professor of sociology. He has also taught at Harvard University and SUNY at Albany. Rytina's research interests include mathematical sociology, theories of social structure, social networks, and stratification and mobility.
Content
List of Illustrations; Preface; Chapter One Sticky Struggles: The Unified Pattern of Social Ranks Inherent in Networks; Chapter Two Foundations of Cacophony; Chapter Three Knots of Regularity; Chapter Four Hierarchy: Inevitable but Inevitably Messy; Chapter Five The Inevitable Emergence of Stratification; Chapter Six Scaling Intergenerational Continuity: Is Occupational Inheritance Ascriptive After All?; Chapter Seven Taming the Mobility Table; Chapter Eight Is Occupational Mobility Declining in the United States?; Chapter Nine The Continuum of Class over Time: Deconstructing Imposed Class to Uncover Empirical Classes; Chapter Ten Concluding Reflections; Appendix: Why Robust Attraction Is (Effectively) Inevitable for Mobility Data; Index.