Peter M. Blau

Peter M. Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan used this technique in the study published as The American Occupational Structure (1967).

…Structural Contexts of Opportunities (1994), Peter M. Blau developed a formal macrosociological theory concerning the influences of large population structures on social life. He identified how different population groups relate to each other. He found that occupational heterogeneity increases the chance for contact between people in different status groups. For…