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'When Leaderless is Meaningless (and When it Matters Most): An Organizational Typology of Leadership Decapitation and its Effectiveness'
Was Wright Wrong? High-Class Jobs and the Professional Earnings Advantage
Wright and Perrone (1977) was an outstanding empirical analysis of social stratification, a major contribution to Marxist analysis of classes in modern capitalism, and an important contribution to popular discourse and academic research on "social class" in the United States. Since 1977, however, debates with "bean counters" in sociology and "epistemological and ontological purists" within Marxism have yielded a multidimensional game-theoretic exploitation model that falls far short of Wright and Perrone (1977) on standards of social science, Marxism, commonsense, and the potential for inspiring future scholarship. Thus I propose moving away from game theory and toward Tilly's (1998) model of durable inequality, which might accommodate the dialectic of life and work. Copyright (c) 2005 by the Southwestern Social Science Association.