Allison, Paul David PROCESSES OF STRATIFICATION IN SCIENCE (Doctoral Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1976) This carefully designed set of quantitative studies of research productivity and mobility in science attempts to account for the enormous inequality in the productivity of scientists, Toward that end, the author has developed a variety of verbal and mathematical models which are then critically examined and tested by data drawn from both longitudinal and cross-sectional samples of chemists, physicists, biologists, and mathematicians. Among the more notable contributions is the detailed study of the closely related notions of the Matthew Effect and cumulative advantage in science. Of further specific interest for research in the sociology of science is Allison's attempt to estimate the importance of random error in counts of publications and citations as well as an examination of how and why scientists change jobs. LC 80-13567 New York, 1980 ISBN: 0405129467 $25.95