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Abstract Previous studies have shown that African Americans have less favorable impressions about wildlands and recreate on wildland areas less frequently than do whites. However, most of these investigations have been conducted on non‐rural populations. Rural perceptions of wildlands and visitation to such areas have received relatively little attention. In this exploratory study, we propose that race operates on wildland recreation visitation through the different meanings rural blacks and whites attribute to wildlands. We examine this hypothesis with a structural model which specifies wildland meaning as an intervening factor between race and visitation. Single equation results show blacks visit wildlands less, and have less favorable definitions of wildlands, compared to whites. However, when wildland meaning is included in the structural model, racial differences become insignificant. This suggests that the meanings different racial groups attach to wildlands help explain visitation. Both sex and age are also significant predictors of both wildland meaning and visitation.

Examined is the relationship between theoretical frameworks & empirical inquiry in US stratification research, based on N. R. Hanson's concept of theory-laden research (Patterns of Discovery, Cambridge, England: Cambridge U Press, 1958). Focus is on a particular theoretical assumption of the neoclassical theory of the SE order underlying status attainment: the market homogeneity assumption, which assumes that workers operate within a homogeneous marketplace wherein all participants have equal opportunity to exchange resources at uniformly set rates according to a standard set of rules. Data are drawn from the 1973 replicate of the 1962 Occupational Changes in a Generation survey of US Ms aged 20-64 (N = 33,613). The impact of this assumption on empirical research is illustrated by contrasting estimates for models of status & earnings determination with & without the assumption. The segmented market assumption of dual economy theory is shown to be empirically more fruitful than the market homogeneity assumption, even when an individualistic SE model is used. Assuming market homogeneity can lead analysts to mistaken interpretations of structural differences in individual resource allocations. Position within the SE order is shown to be dependent on individual attainment processes. 2 Tables, 2 Figures. Modified HA.