The prestige squeeze : occupational prestige in Canada since 1965 / John Goyder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goyder, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Occupational prestige--Canada.

Occupational prestige.

Occupations--Social aspects--Canada.

Occupations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sociologists have studied occupational prestige for decades, including a landmark national survey in 1965 by Peter Pineo and John Porter. John Goyder updates Pineo and Porter's work, providing a detailed comparison of their results with a similar national scale survey conducted in 2005. The results challenge the accepted view that prestige ratings are constant over time and across societies. Goyder shows that there have been some surprising changes in these ratings: instead of the expected premium on jobs in the knowledge sector, more traditional occupations - such as the skilled trades, even if they require little education or pay a low wage - have gained the most prestige. There has been a significant decrease in consensus about occupational prestige ratings and the tendency for respondents to upgrade the prestige of their own occupation is much more pronounced in the recent data. Goyder argues that these changes are a sign of the shifting nature of values in a meritocratic society in which increasing income inequality is a growing reality.

Contents:

1. Occupational Prestige: "That Mysterious Force"

2. Changing Society, Changing Prestige?

3. Methods and Procedures

4. High Scores and Low Scores

5. Individual Rater

6. Prestige Distribution

7. Dissensus in Ratings

8. "Guns and Butter" of Occupational Prestige.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612867125

9780773582125

0773582126

9780773576681

0773576681

9781282867123

1282867121

OCLC:

711567203