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

by Paul Lambert, Dave Griffiths

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349668649
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/28/2020
Edition description:	1st ed. 2018
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

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.

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.