ABSTRACT
Author's Note: I would like to tlumk David Lee, Katherine S. Newman, and several anonymow rev~rs for their comments on this article. I also wish to thank Randall Collins for fust suggesting tlwt I should scrutinize the theoretical and empirical validity of the deslcilling thesis. This is a shortened version of a paper presented at the 1985 Ea.Jtem Sociological Association meetings.
