I learned today that Otis Dudley Duncan, sociologist and anatomist of the “American Occupational Structure”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0029036704/kieranhealysw-20/ref=nosim/, has died at the age of 83. Duncan was a major figure in mid-20th century sociology, a pioneer in the theory and practice of social measurement, the analysis of stratification, “occupations and prestige”:http://cloud9.norc.uchicago.edu/faqs/prestige.htm, organizations and urbanism. He taught at the “University of Arizona”:http://fp.arizona.edu/soc/ for many years. Bloggers may know his name because — well into his retirement — he was one of the first people to notice and analyze “inconsistencies”:http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/duncan1.html, “errors and omissions”:http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/cgi-bin/blog/guns/files/duncan3.html in John Lott’s claims about defensive gun use.
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Jim Henley 11.19.04 at 4:08 pm
If things continue along the lines established so far this morning, this could be the single dullest day in Crooked Timber history.
Jim Henley 11.19.04 at 4:23 pm
Oops. Intended m comment to go, somewhat more tastefully, a couple posts up. Not in the one about the dead person.
Kieran Healy 11.19.04 at 5:07 pm
If things continue along the lines established so far this morning, this could be the single dullest day in Crooked Timber history.
What is it those Libertarians are always saying, Jim? “You provide a service for free and pretty soon people start to treat it like an entitlement” — something like that?
Jim Henley 11.20.04 at 5:15 am
Hey, we kid because we love! Besides, Holbo already came through with three solid posts (albeit with a single permalink).
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