Images of social stratification : occupational structures and class

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Images of social stratification : occupational structures and class

A.P.M. Coxon and P.M. Davies, with C.L. Jones

SAGE Publications, 1986

  • : [hard]
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [220]-226

Includes index

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In Images of Social Stratification, Coxon and Davies investigate how people perceive and evaluate occupations. They challenge the validity of existing occupational hierarchies and propose a fundamentally new approach to the problem. This highly readable and non-technical book makes an important contribution to sociological debates about stratification, status and class and for areas as diverse as job evaluation, personnel management and careers guidance.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: ORIENTATION Class Images and Images of Class Attempts to Measure Status The Conventional Account Refutations and Reconstruction The Project Method and Design PART TWO: CRITICAL SHORTCOMINGS OF THE CONVENTIONAL ACCOUNT The End of Consensus On the Fundamental Unreality of Unidimensionality The Evaluation of Jobs and People The Family Resemblance Interpretation of Occupational Structure PART THREE: THE SEARCH FOR STRUCTURE The Remarkable Case of the Spontaneous Set The Hierarchical Family or the Family Tree Language and Class A Generative Capacity? PART FOUR: FINALE Implications and Consequences

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