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Citation

Lucas SR, Byrne D. Am. Behav. Sci. 2017; 61(1): 132-160.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0002764216682990

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Effectively maintained inequality (EMI) was proposed as a general theory of inequality, but the theory flows from a decades-long tradition of studying social background effects on educational attainment. After an orienting discussion of several historic challenges of the study of social background effects on educational inequality, proposed and adopted solutions to those challenges, and subsequent critiques of those solutions, we offer and justify seven principles that, if followed, produce a solid assessment of EMI. After conveying the seventh principle, two illustrative ways in which EMI addresses historic challenges with studying inequality are conveyed.


Language: en

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