This is perhaps fine for linear thinking as modelled well by a regression equation that is with a dependent variable “Socio-economic Status”, or “Income” (see Abbott, 1988). But this is not the type of reasoning Weber himself used. For Weber, inequality is rooted in abstract honour ...
distribution of money, resources and power. What all of this has in common is an implicit assumption that “inequality” as a dependent variable is a function of monetary income and wealth, that is, products of theGesellschaftand not theGemeinschaft. Recently,Ridgeway (2014), in her ASA presid...
The sheer weights of incomers can be a hazard.Thus Venice, a city built for half a million inhabitants, is swollen by another half million who populate the city daily in the tourist season eight million visits each year.The mayor recently decided to limit visitors to 90 000 a day: the ...