SOC220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Socioeconomic Status, Criterion Validity
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Week 3 - hauser, robert m reading study notes. Typically used as a shorthand expression for variables that characterize the placement of persons, families, households, census tracts or other aggregates with respect to the capacity to create or consume goods that are value to society. Labour market: has become universal among adult women and men. Jobs are a specific and sometimes unique bundle of activities carried out by a person in the expectation of economic remuneration, but occupation is an abstract category used to group and classify jobs. Wright"s neo-marxian classification: aims to identify modes of labor exploitation in the relations of production, whereas in erikson and goldthrope"s neo- Weberian classification, the class categories are designed to identify distinct combinations of occupational function and employment status. Occupational prestige refers to the general level of social standing given by the incumbents of an occupation.