PRESTIGE AND CLASS

PRESTIGE AND CLASS

Occupational status and self-image

Occupational prestige hierarchy

Skills and responsibility

Power of occupation

Status group relationships

Compatibility within groups

Deference to higher

Distance from lowers

Hierarchical consistency—reproduction thesis
Prestige hierarchy universality thesis
        Who was asked?
        Variations in job titles
        Convergence ® similarity

Class identification
        Class consciousness
        Popular definitions of class
        Occupational source of class identity
        Middle classification
            Denial of working or upper categories
            Conventionalization

Class position of women
        Status borrowing
        Status sharing
            Historicity and age