STATUS INCONSISTENCY AND ETHNORELIGIOUS GROUP MEMBERSHIP AS DETERMINANTS OF SOCIAL PARTICIPATION AND POLITICAL ATTITUDES*

*We are indebted to our colleagues, Gudrnund Iversen and Paul Siegel, for their advice on the statistical analysis and to our research assistants, Stephen J. Cutler and Gerald K. Hikel. The total study. and this analysis were supported by grants from the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of ~ichigan and the National Science Foundation (GS-1929). As a test of the theory of status inconsistency, the effects of ethnoreligious group membership and education on several economic and political attitudes and indicators of social participation were analyzed, using survey data on a white native-born Detroit sample. It was hypothesized that if status inconsistency effects were operating, we would observe statistical interaction effects between ethnoreligiou