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This set of three chapters assesses the value of the claim that HORG works empirically as an index to discriminate a whole range of socially valued outcomes. For an indicator of social classness can ‘work’ without helping us to understand what is happening. This may arise because — as with the SCS — the indicator is not derived coherently and systematically or because it fails to fulfil simple technical criteria. The purpose of this, the first chapter in the sequence, is to discuss the extent to which SCS meets the technical criteria for index construction and then to consider the possible options which were available to us for analysis.
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© 1992 Roy A. Carr-Hill and Colin W. Pritchard
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Carr-Hill, R.A., Pritchard, C.W. (1992). Classification Using HORG and the Alternative. In: Women’s Social Standing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22072-4_6
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