The Process of Stratification
Trends and Analyses
Published on 3. September 2013
400 pages
978-1-4832-6325-0 (ISBN)
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The Process of Stratification: Trends and Analyses discusses the conceptual scheme developed by Blau and Duncan. The book elaborates Blau and Duncan's description and analysis of socioencomic inequality, stratification, and inequality of opportunity in American society during the early 1960s. The authors review the assumptions and methods; they point to a different direction from the widely held assumption that occupational socioeconomic status is the primary determinant to mobility. They also use the Alphabetical Index as the basis for better collection method on data relating to occupation, industry and class of worker. As regards occupational mobility, the authors note that such mobility is limited by the depletion of occupational groups that higher-status occupations have sourced from. They also point that American society is homogenous in the sense of the determinants of socioeconomic achievements can exert influence. The authors then discuss an exercise in theory construction of intergenerational transmission of income. They conclude that income mobility is similar to occupational or educational mobility; to be more precise, they note that empirical evidence should be gathered. This book can prove useful for economists, sociologists, policy makers, as well as academicians involved in societal studies.
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List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsI Assumptions and Methods 1 Commonalities in Social Stratification and Assumptions about Status Mobility in the United States What Do Prestige Scales Scale? Bases and Amount of Occupational Mobility: Two Case Studies The Process of Status Allocation in Two Societies Artifactual or Real Differences between Prestige and Socioeconomic Scores? The Common Basis of Mobility in Australia and the United States Conclusions 2 The Measurement of Occupation in Social Surveys Socioeconomic and Prestige Scales of Occupational Status Requisite Occupation Information Errors in Occupation Reports Summary A Manual for Coding Survey Information about OccupationsII Trends in Mobility and Achievement 3 Trends in the Occupational Mobility of U.S. Men, 1962-1972 Method Net Intercohort Shifts, 1961-1970 Components of Intercohort Shifts Long-Term Trends Summary 4 Trends in Occupational Mobility by Sex and Race in the United States, 1962-1972 Coverage of Population Net Intercohort Shifts, 1962-1972 Components of Intercohort Shifts Sex Differentials in Net Shifts Sexual Patterns of Role Allocation Racial Inequality among Women 5 Socioeconomic Achievements of American Men, 1962-1972 Data and Methods A Model of Socioeconomic Achievement Intercohort Shifts in Background and Achievement Interpretation of Intercohort Shifts Racial Differentials in Achievement Discussion 6 Temporal Change in Occupational Mobility: Evidence for Men in the United States A Multiplicative Model 1962 OCG: Mobility to First Job Five National Surveys: 1947 to 1972 Indianapolis: 1910 and 1940 Other Data on Mobility Trends Discussion 7 Structural Changes in Occupational Mobility among Men in the United States Technique of Proportional Adjustment Shifts in Cohort Distributions Trends in Gross Mobility Indexing Trend in Mobility DiscussionIII Studies in Status Allocation 8 Sex in the Structure of Occupational Mobility in the United States, 1962 Structural Equation Models of Sexual Stratification Social Mobility through Marital Mobility Sexual Patterns of Intergenerational Occupational Mobility Availability of Spouse Data in the OCG Survey Gross Differences in the Occupational Origins and Destinations of the Sexes Mobility Differentials Stemming from Occupational Distributions Testing Mobility Hypotheses Intergenerational Mobility by Sex and Age and by Sex and Race Discussion 9 Situs and Status Dimensions of Occupational Stratification: An Examination of Interindustry and Interoccupation Mobility Situs and Status Distinguished Analytic Strategy and Subsampling Structure of Industrial Mobility Situs and Status as Correlated Dimensions of Mobility Summary and Conclusions 10 Socioeconomic Achievements and City Size Theory and Past Research Estimating City Effects in Life Cycle Models of Achievement City Size and Occupational Achievement Variations in Income Attainments by City Size Racial Discrimination and City Size Conclusions and Discussion 11 Intergenerational Transmission of Income: An Exercise in Theory Construction Data and Methods Model I: Direct Intergenerational Income Effects Model II: Direct and Indirect Income Effects Correcting for Random Measurement Error A Model Assuming High-Income Inheritance ConclusionsAppendix A. 1970 Detailed Industry and Occupation Codes, U.S. Bureau of the CensusAppendix B.
