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Barren Theory or Petty Craft? A Response to Professor Freedman

Professor Freedman's comments on the first chapter' of As Others See Us: Schooling and Social Mobility in Scotland and the United States are welcome as much for their frankness as for their incisiveness. Like most of us, Freedman is puzzled about the proper way to represent social processes in numerical form, and he is by turns very critical, and quite commendatory, of the efforts of path analysts to compass that end. His statistical characterizations of the technique are not, to any material extent, in dispute; and as