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Introduction to Structural Equation Modelsprepares the reader to understand the recent sociological literature on the use of structural equation models in research, and discusses methodological questions pertaining to such models. The material in first seven chapters is almost entirely standard, with the remaining four introducing progressively more open-ended issues, seducing the reader into beginning to think for himself about the properties of models or even to suggest problems that may intrigue the advanced student.

Contents -- Foreword -- The Study -- Marriage -- Women and Work -- Rearing Children -- Social Participation -- Religious Participation -- Communal Involvement -- Religious Beliefs -- Values -- Political Participation -- Public Affairs -- Political Orientations -- Racial Attitudes -- The Complexity of Social Change -- Acknowledgments

Religious participation, a trichotomous response in the form of a two-item Guttman scale, is affected linearly by sex and by marital status, but the effect of color is nonlinear Techniques illustrated in the paper allow the analy st to impose simultaneously the two linear constraints and a nonlinear contrast of extreme response categories versus the middle one to represent the color effect. Such techniques should prove useful as analysts consider the possibilities of specifying structural models for categorical data