y disappear in modern society. The assumption underlying this position is that ascribe status and ascriptively oriented relations are reduced with increasing modernization and with an accompanying emphasis on universalism and achievement. Another way of saying this is that we outgrow ethnic differences through the process of modernization, and Blau and Duncan are cited on this point:
Objective criteria of evaluation that are universally accepted increasingly pervade all spheres of life and displace pluralistic standards of diverse in groups, intuitive judgment, and humanistic values not susceptive to empirical verification (Y
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