Hisclass : a historical international social class scheme

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Hisclass : a historical international social class scheme

Marco H.D. van Leeuwen and Ineke Maas

Leuven University Press, c2011

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Includes bibliographical references

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内容説明

Social class schemes, contemporary as well as historical, always involve something of a mystery. While this book does not claim to have solved that mystery completely, it does shed significant light on it. For the sake of comparability, it is advisable not to develop new class schemes but to use old ones. Yet presenting a new class scheme - HISCLASS - is exactly what this book does. Unlike existing historical schemes, HISCLASS is international, created for the purpose of making comparisons across different periods, countries and languages. Furthermore, it is linked to an international standard classification scheme for occupations - HISCO. The chapters in the book show how historical occupational titles classified in HISCO can form the building blocks of a social class scheme for past populations. The dimensions underlying classes are discussed. How, for instance, can manual work be distinguished from non-manual work? Skilled from non-skilled? And what did ‘supervision' really mean? A rich source of detailed occupational information is used to measure those dimensions. The result is an instrument that can be used to systematically compare social class positions, distilled from a dazzling variety of occupational titles, around the world and over a range of periods. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

目次

List of tables Preface 1. Occupations, Class and Rank in Past Societies 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Occupations and their classifi cation in HISCO 1.3 Constructing the class scheme 1.4 Dimensions of social class 1.5 Conclusion 2. Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The nature of DOT 2.3 The content of DOT 2.4 Conclusion 3. From HISCO to DOT 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Linking HISCO to DOT 3.3 Conclusion 4. From DOT to a Social Class Scheme for Past Populations 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Manual and non-manual 4.3 Skill levels 4.4 Supervision 4.5 Economic sector 4.6 From class dimensions to HISCLASS 4.7 The use of the HISCO variables Status and Relation 4.8 Conclusion 5. Validation 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Expert judgement 5.3 Results of the expert validation 5.4 Consequences of the results of the validation for HISCLASS 5.5 Conclusion 6. Conclusion Bibliography Appendices Appendix 4.1: Exceptions to the general rules with respect to the manual /non-manual distinction Appendix 4.2: Exceptions to the general rules with respect to skill levels Appendix 4.3: Exceptions to the general rules with respect to supervision Appendix 5.1: Instructions for validation by the experts Appendix 5.2: The two test fi les for the expert validation (first 10 of 299 occupational groups) Appendix 5.3: Overview of experts' placement of occupational groups into classes, compared with the placement using DOT Appendix 5.4: Overview of experts' scoring of occupational groups on class dimensions Appendix 5.5: Changes made based on the expert validation Appendix 5.6: Crosswalk HISCO - HISCLASS List of tables Table 2.1: Values of the occupational characteristics Data, People and Things in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) Table 2.2: Example of a DOT qualifi cation profile Table 3.1: An overview of links between HISCO and DOT by type Table 3.2: An illustration of choosing the most common DOT code within the unit group in order to establish a HISCO-DOT link for a general HISCO group Table 3.3: An illustration of choosing the most similar DOT code within the unit group in order to establish a HISCO-DOT link for a general HISCO group Table 3.4: HISCO occupational groups that could not be linked to DOT, and their presence in ISCO68 Table 4.1: Distinguishing between manual and non-manual work using DOT Table 4.2: HISCO occupational groups not covered by DOT, and their directly assigned class characteristics Table 4.3: Distinguishing skill levels using DOT Table 4.4: Distinguishing supervision using DOT Table 4.5: A cross-classifi cation of the dimensions of class Table 4.6: The 12 HISCLASS classes and their characteristics Table 4.7: Categories of the variable Status in HISCO and rules for assigning occupations to classes Table 4.8: Categories of the variable Relation in HISCO and rules for assigning occupations to classes Table 5.1: Results of the expert validation of supervision Table 5.2: Results of the expert validation of manual / non-manual Table 5.3: Results of the expert validation of primary as opposed to other sectors Table 5.4: Results of the expert validation of skill Table 5.5: Results of the expert validation of class Table 5.6: Cross-classifi cation of DOT-based class and alternatives proposed by a majority of experts

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