Social Inequalities and Occupational Stratification Methods and Concepts in the Analysis of Social Distance /

• Main Authors: Lambert, Paul (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Griffiths, Dave (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Industrial sociology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Sociology-Research.; Sociology of Work.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Research Methodology.

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 f...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Homophily and Endogamy
• 3. Measures of Social Stratification
• 4. CAMSIS and the Analysis of Social Interaction Distance
• 5. Evaluation CAMSIS Scales
• 6. Constructing CAMSIS Scales
• 7. 'Networked Occupations'
• 8. Social Network Analysis of Occupational Connections
• 9. Occupational Level Residuals and Distributional Parameters
• 10. Social Interactions and Educational Inequality
• 11. Exploiting Non-Standard Dimension Scores and Network Structures in the Analysis of Social Interactions Between Occupations
• 12. Conclusions
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