SOCY 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Status Attainment, Temporary Work, Socioeconomic Status
8 Feb 2017
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Public sector jobs get paid 12% than private sector. However more intrinsic rewards in the private sector. Occupational status: occupational status: certain jobs (e. g. , lawyer, doctors) carry more status or prestige than others (e. g. , cashiers, janitors); hierarchical, socioeconomic status (ses) scale: ranking of noc occupational categories from 0 to 100. Nannies = 9, hairstylists = 29, doctors = 100. Job quality and intersectionality consideration of gender alone is often insufficient. Rather, gender is entwined with other structures of difference, such as race, class, generation, and sexual orientation (mahler and pessar, 2006, p. 37) Fuller and vosko: temporary work: minorities do not do well in temporary work. Explaining inequality in the labour market what do we mean by social inequality ?: social location, social capital differences, differences of desire and opportunity. For employers (demand) pay, status, career opportunities, other rewards. The human capital model of labour market processes: assumptions: Durkheim: degrees for higher paying jobs cost more money in universities.
