SOCIAL STANDING IN AMERICA: NEW DIMENSIONS OF CLASS by Richard P. Coleman and Lee Rainwater; Basic Books; 353 pages; $15.95
Without mincing such words as geo-means, standard deviation and magnitude estimation, an American bases his SQstatus quotientmainly on money. Although the statement seems self-evident, it is the ingeniously established bottom line to Sociologists Richard Coleman and Lee Rainwater's study of class in America, what their statistical Mr. Mim, the man-in-the-middle, likes to call his social standing. Yet the deeper one gets into the data and analysis of this book, the clearer it becomes...
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