Prestige and Association in an Urban Community
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA0370 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.0370
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. ... more Methodology
Date(s) of Data Collection: 06.1963 - 07.1963
Geographic coverage: Massachusetts (US-MA), Cambridge | Massachusetts (US-MA), Belmont
Universe: Male whites, who had lived for at least 1
year in the cities named.
Number of Units: 422
Sampling Procedure: Stratified random sample Mode of Data Collection: Oral survey with standardized questionnaire
Data Collector: Joint Center for Urban Studies, M.I.T. and Harvard University
Analysis System(s): -
Number of Variables: -
Bibliographic information
Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Laumann, Edward O. - Joint Center for Urban Studies, M.I.T. and Harvard University
Publication year: 1963
DOI: 10.4232/1.0370
Study number: ZA0370
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive
Versions
Current Version: 1.0.0, 2010-04-13, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.0370
Version history: ... more Reference publications
Publications: Laumann, Edward O.:
Prestige and Association in an Urban Community: An Analysis of an Urban Stratification System.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1966
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