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The individual and the collective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2003

MOHAMED CHERKAOUI
MOHAMED CHERKAOUI
Affiliation:
GEMAS, CNRS and Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Maison des Sciences de l’homme, 54 Bd Raspail, 75006 Paris, France. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Most empirical studies of social stratification and inequality remain confined to the micrological level, while their very aim is to construct and to test macrological statements. The first part of this paper discusses the main hypotheses that are implicit in this research tradition and that do not allow the transition from micro to macro. Based on recent findings in this field, the second part outlines a macrosociological theory of stratification, which allows the possibility of deducing micro as well as macro propositions that remain unexplainable by micrological theories.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Review , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , October 2003 , pp. 489 - 504
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2003

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