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082			_a305.5 COX
100			_aCoxon , Anthony .P.M.
245		0	_aImages of occupational prestige: a study in social cognition
260			_aLondon
260			_bMacmillan.
260			_c1978
300			_a226p.
520			_aDo people from different vantage points Society see occupations in the same way? Is there massive consensus about the rewards in pay and prestige that should be given to different occupational groups? Or are there systematic differences in the perception and evaluation of occupations: differences which can only persist because occupational special isrn is so great as to create effective barriers between Occupational worlds? In this book Anthony Coxon and Charles Jones shed new light on these important questions, challenging the assumptions underlying the routine uses made of occupational information. They combine sociol ogical and psychological approaches to questions in social stratification and mobility research. This is not just another study of 'occupational prestige', indeed it provides a thoroughgoing critique of the occupational prestige industry in sociology, a critique with considerable theoretical implica- tions in such areas as the debate about convergence between communist and capitalist industrial societies. The authors base their conclusions on a long series of interviews on similarities and differences between occupations, and also about the ounds for ordering some occupations above others. The resulting data have both qualitative and quantitative asects, and are presented in novel ways which are designed to intermesh them thoroughly. Detailed analyses of individual belief systems are supplemented by innovative uses of statistical method. The authors apply scaling techniques recently developed in the study of human cognition in order to reveal systematic patterns in individual differences of perceptions and evaluations of occupations. The basic metaphor of the book is that of 'cognitive map, conceived as a multi dimensional, continuous, but systematically distortable geometric space. The first half of the analysis is devoted to establishing an overall cultural cognitive map of which any individual's OcCupational thinking is a special case. Detailed anal ysis of individual cases and of group data established the validity of this overall cognitive map beyond any doubt.
650			_aSocial classes.
700			_aJones, Charles L.
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