TY - JOUR AU1 - Bielby, W T AU2 - Hauser, R M AB - text. Through the early 1970s, the influence of Wright's approach on sociologists was evident both in expository treat­ ments of more complex models (Blalock 1969a, 1970, 1971; Costner 1969, 1971; Duncan 1968, 1969, 1972; Heise 1969; Land 1970; Althauser & Heberlein 1970; Althauser, Heberlein & Scott 1971) and in more sophisticated empirical applications (Duncan, Haller & Portes 1968; Hodge & Treiman 1968; Siegel & Hodge 1968; Hauser 1969a, b, 1971; Siegel 1970; Duncan, Featherman & Duncan 1972). Some of this work incorporated specifications of simultaneous causation and latent vari­ ables that were later given better statistical treatment. The accessibility of a variety of models and techniques for estimation and infer­ ence has increased since the early 1970s. The distinction between population and sample has been observed more carefully, and more reliance has been placed upon general analytic approaches to statistical estimation and inference. The period has been one of self-teaching among individual sociologists and for the discipline as a whole. It has been characterized by rediscovery, review, and exposition of ideas developed in other fields, with perhaps a few innovations. The development ofstructural equation modeling within the sociological literature is no less important to the field because it TI - Structural Equation Models JF - Annual Review of Sociology DO - 10.1146/annurev.so.03.080177.001033 DA - 1977-08-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/annual-reviews/structural-equation-models-aE8BwsG650 SP - 137 EP - 161 VL - 3 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -