Entry:

Adair, Stephen, “Immeasurable Differences: A Critique of the Measures of Class and Status Used in the General Social Survey,” Humanity and Society, 25 (February, 2001), 57-83.

Abstract:

A critique of the GSS as a monitor of social stratification. Suggests the GSS provides inadequate measures for income, wealth, subjective social class, and relations to the means of production.

GSS Years:

ACT: A critique of the GSS as a monitor of social stratification. Suggests the GSS provides inadequate measures for income, wealth, subjective social class, and relations to the means of production.

Other Data Sets:

NOS 1991, IAB 1998

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:
Variable Name	Variable Label

INCOME	TOTAL FAMILY INCOME
RINCOME	RESPONDENTS INCOME
DWELOWN	DOES R OWN OR RENT HOME?
CLASS	SUBJECTIVE CLASS IDENTIFICATION
PRESTG80	RS OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE SCORE (1980)