Title:	Social Inequalities and Occupational Stratification
Authors:	Paul Lambert Dave Griffiths
Keywords:	Social Inequalities
Issue Date:	2018
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	In what ways can the analysis of social connections between individuals inform us about social stratification and inequality? Our approach in this book it to connect data on the occupations held by people, with records of their social connections. This can tell us about the ‘social distance between occupations’, that is, the extent to which different occupations are linked to each other by higher or lower volumes of social interactions. We show in particular that our own and others’ analyses of the social distance between occupations can reveal important and sometimes unanticipated patterns—particularly concerning stability—in social inequalities. We focus particularly on occupations (see also Chaps. 2 and 3). In sociology in particular, the occupational order is commonly regarded as a consistent marker of long-term position within the structure of economic inequality, not least because resource distribution through occupational pay is a major source of economic inequalities (e.g. Wright 2005; Parkin 1972). Occupations are also helpful indicators because they are reasonably easy to measure for most people, and there are numerous alternative occupation-based measures of stratification available for use (e.g. Rose and Harrison 2010).
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/55638
ISBN:	978-1-137-02253-0
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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