Study title
Prestige and Association in an Urban Community
Creator
Laumann, Edward O. (Joint Center for Urban Studies, M.I.T. and Harvard University )
Study number / PID
ZA0370, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)
Data access
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Abstract
The significance of occupational prestige and social classes in two
American cities.
Topics: Economic ideology; attitude to business concentration, trade
unions, entrepreneurs, strike, co-determination and government takeover
of supply companies; self-assessment of social class and criteria for
the assessment of social class; friendships; neighborhood contacts;
feeling of belonging and class consciousness; social mobility; work
satisfaction; significance of occupational prospects of promotion;
local residency; memberships; party preference.
Scale: social distance from selected occupations.
Demography: age; marital status; number of children; religious denomination; school
education; vocational training; occupation; professional position; professional career; social origins.