Social class as a neglected variable in organizational behavior.

Social class is a variable with considerable predictive power in sociology and other social sciences. Within marketing, social class is a common independent variable in studies of consumer behavior. The absence of social class as a variable in organizational behavior studies is documented, and several partial surrogates are identified. Reasons for the avoidance of the use of social class as a variable in studies of organizational behavior are proposed.

SOCIOLOGISTS HAVE LONG concerned themselves with social class. Early work in this area began in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s (Lynd & Lynd, 1929, 1937; Warner & Lunt, 1941). Bierstedt (1970, p. 434) provided a representative ...

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