Overview
- Provides a unique archive of technical materials on relevant analytical approaches and statistical techniques towards the study of social inequalities
- Utilises the sociological concepts of homophily and endogamy within its analysis of social distance between people belonging to different occupations
- Outlines a number of influential approaches to measuring social stratification, including different measures of social class and popular stratification scales
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This book explores how structures of social inequality are linked to the social connections that people hold. The authors focus upon occupational inequalities where they see, for example, that the typical friendship patterns of people from one occupation are often very different to those of people from another.
Social Inequalities and Occupational Stratification leverages empirical data about differences in social connections to chart structures of social distance and social inequality. Several of its chapters provide coverage of the long-standing Cambridge Social Interaction and Stratification scale (CAMSIS) project and its approach to analysing social interaction patterns in terms of a single dimension related to social inequality.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Paul Lambert is a Professor at the University of Stirling, UK. He has worked since 1999 as part of the CAMSIS project on occupations and social interactions.
Dave Griffiths is a Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at the University of Stirling, UK, where he teaches on social networks, social inequalities, and on advanced social research methods.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Inequalities and Occupational Stratification
Book Subtitle: Methods and Concepts in the Analysis of Social Distance
Authors: Paul Lambert, Dave Griffiths
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-02253-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-02252-3Published: 30 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-66864-9Published: 04 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-02253-0Published: 18 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 384
Number of Illustrations: 67 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Work, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Research Methodology