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The term “cohort” was in common use during Roman antiquity, when it referred to a division within a legion. Since then, cohort has come to refer to considerably more, and in fact the original meaning of the word has been lost in everyday colloquy. The use of cohorts to refer to groups or aggregates defined by point of entry into a social system has long been present in the social sciences, but cohort analysis as a focus in its own right has fluctuated in its visibility, due, perhaps, to swings of interest in the study of social change.
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Mason, W.M., Fienberg, S.E. (1985). Introduction: Beyond the Identification Problem. In: Mason, W.M., Fienberg, S.E. (eds) Cohort Analysis in Social Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8536-3_1
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