Abstract
There tends to grow up about a status, in addition to its specifically determining traits, a complex of auxiliary characteristics expected of its incumbents. The informal codes of fellow-workers often implicity reflect these expectations. In our mobile society these expectations are constantly violated. The resulting contradictions and dilemmas of status are solved in various ways, some of which are here illustrated.
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SociologyPositive economicsEpistemologyPsychologyLaw and economicsSocial psychologyPolitical scienceEconomicsPhilosophy
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- 1945
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 353-359
- Citations
- 834
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Everett C. Hughes
(1945).
Dilemmas and Contradictions of Status.
American Journal of Sociology
, 50
(5)
, 353-359.
https://doi.org/10.1086/219652
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- 10.1086/219652