Status Inconsistency - Outstanding Issues

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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