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Scoring Occupational Categories for Social Research: A Review of Current Practice, with Australian Examples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2001

F. L. Jones  and
Julie McMillan
F. L. Jones
Affiliation:
Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, AUSTRALIA
Julie McMillan
Affiliation:
Australian Council for Educational Research, AUSTRALIA
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Abstract

The scoring of occupational categories has a long history. After reviewing the historical background, we develop and discuss the properties of two new Australian scales based on current theorising in stratification research. The first is based on the operation of the labour market and scores occupations to reflect their central role in converting educational credentials into market income. The second is based on patterns of social interaction and scores occupations to reflect the choices that people make in marriage markets. While these two scales are not theoretically or empirically equivalent, they are closely related and provide equally valid, but alternative, ways of measuring the underlying stratification order of modern societies.

Type
OCCUPATIONAL STRATIFICATION
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Work, Employment and Society , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , September 2001 , pp. 539 - 563
Copyright
2001 BSA Publications Limited

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