Outstanding Issues
While well-known, the concept of status inconsistency is not without its challengers and unresolved questions.
- Can status inconsistency be reliably measured independent of the constituent vertical dimensions of stratification?
- Can the hypothesized social psychological mechanism (e.g. feeling of being under-rewarded) for the effects of status inconsistency be validated?
- Can consistent empirical effects be found at all outside the narrow spectrum of American politics?
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