Images of occupational prestige: a study in social cognition (Record no. 24002)

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International Standard Book Number 333217950
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Classification number 305.5 COX
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Personal name Coxon , Anthony .P.M.
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Title Images of occupational prestige: a study in social cognition
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Macmillan.
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1978
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Extent 226p.
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Summary, etc. Do people from different vantage points<br/>Society see occupations in the same way?<br/>Is there massive consensus about the rewards in<br/>pay and prestige that should be given to<br/>different occupational groups? Or are there<br/>systematic differences in the perception and<br/>evaluation of occupations: differences which<br/>can only persist because occupational special isrn<br/>is so great as to create effective barriers between<br/>Occupational worlds?<br/>In this book Anthony Coxon and Charles Jones<br/>shed new light on these important questions,<br/>challenging the assumptions underlying the<br/>routine uses made of occupational information.<br/>They combine sociol ogical and psychological<br/>approaches to questions in social stratification<br/>and mobility research. This is not just another<br/>study of 'occupational prestige', indeed it<br/>provides a thoroughgoing critique of the<br/>occupational prestige industry in sociology, a<br/>critique with considerable theoretical implica-<br/>tions in such areas as the debate about<br/>convergence between communist and capitalist<br/>industrial societies.<br/>The authors base their conclusions on a long<br/>series of interviews on similarities and<br/>differences between occupations, and also about<br/>the<br/>ounds for ordering some occupations<br/>above others. The resulting data have both<br/>qualitative and quantitative asects, and are<br/>presented in novel ways which are designed to<br/>intermesh them thoroughly. Detailed analyses<br/>of individual belief systems are supplemented<br/>by innovative uses of statistical method. The<br/>authors apply scaling techniques recently<br/>developed in the study of human cognition in<br/>order to reveal systematic patterns in individual<br/>differences of perceptions and evaluations of<br/>occupations. The basic metaphor of the book is<br/>that of 'cognitive map, conceived as a multi<br/>dimensional, continuous, but systematically<br/>distortable geometric space. The first half of<br/>the analysis is devoted to establishing an overall<br/>cultural cognitive map of which any individual's<br/>OcCupational thinking is a special case. Detailed<br/>anal ysis of individual cases and of group data<br/>established the validity of this overall cognitive<br/>map beyond any doubt.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Social classes.
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Personal name Jones, Charles L.
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