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The Social Grading of Occupations. A New Approach and Scale.

Population StudiesPublished 1 November 1975
Kaare Svalastoga, John H. Goldthorpe, Keith Hope
Citations381
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Abstract

The authors have obtained popular assessments of the social standing of several hundred occupations and, by a novel application of sampling procedures, constructed a scale upon which the position of any employed male can be determined with a known degree of precision.

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