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Joseph Berger, Cecilia L. Ridgeway, M. Hamit Fisek, Robert Z. Norman, The Legitimation and Delegitimation of Power and Prestige Orders, American Sociological Review, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Jun., 1998), pp. 379-405
Berger et al. (Mon,) studied this question.