A new international measure of social stratification

Meraviglia, Cinzia; Ganzeboom, Harry B. G.; Luca, Deborah De

doi:10.4324/9781315108209-3

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“…ISSP data also reveal that countries differ widely with the strength of their association between actual and perceived dimensions of social mobility. The most notable observation is that respondents in Northern European countries generally report a strong association between the perceived and the actual dimension of intergenerational mobility, while in other countries the associations are much weaker (Meraviglia, 2017).…”

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Why do people perceive themselves as being downwardly or upwardly mobile?

Gugushvili

2020

Acta Sociologica

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This study explores individual and contextual explanations of why some people perceive themselves as being mobile and others do not. While subjective social position in recent decades has become an important topic of sociological enquiry, only a handful of studies explicitly investigate the nature of subjective perception of intergenerational mobility. When assessing their performance in comparison to their parents, individuals are likely to consider many other aspects of their lives than the attainment of socio-economic position. For empirical analysis, I operationalise an objective indicator of intergenerational mobility, often assumed to be the central explanation of perceptions of mobility, by means of intergenerational educational trajectories. In addition to exploring individual-level explanations, I use multilevel mixed-effects Poisson regression models to test how contextual environment is associated with perceived intergenerational mobility across 35 societies in Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. Results indicate that an objective measure of intergenerational mobility and other individual-level factors are important explanations of subjective intergenerational mobility. Further, the difference in economic development between individuals’ birth years and the year of interview is the most salient contextual factor explaining perceived intergenerational mobility, while contemporary economic development and short-term economic growth also reduce the likelihood of perceived downward mobility. The findings of this study contribute to sociological literature by highlighting the importance of contextual environment and factors beyond socio-economic characteristics for individuals’ perception of intergenerational mobility.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Why do people perceive themselves as being downwardly or upwardly mobile?

Gugushvili

2020

Acta Sociologica

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“…Different operationalisations (e.g. one or more dimensions, categorical or continuous variable) might have implications for the outcomes of interest (Meraviglia et al 2016). In addition, related research points to the decline of the middle class in Western societies over the last 3 decades (Milanovic 2016), blurring the distinction between those from low and middle social backgrounds.…”

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Requiem for a Dream: Perceived Economic Conditions and Subjective Well-Being in Times of Prosperity and Economic Crisis

Fernandez-Urbano

Kulić

2020

Soc Indic Res

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Using the Panel of Social Inequalities in Catalonia, Spain (PaD 2001(PaD -2012, this article investigates the relationship between perceptions of economic conditions and subjective well-being in times of prosperity and economic crisis. It also analyses how this relationship plays out across different social backgrounds. Periods of economic crisis and prosperity serve as a proxy for objective macroeconomic conditions. The Spanish region of Catalonia is a relevant setting because it faced one of the highest increases in inequality and unemployment in Europe as a result of the 2008 Economic Crisis. Our results show that perceived economic conditions matter beyond objective micro and macroeconomic realm and become a strong determinant of subjective well-being during a crisis, particularly for the middle class. However, contrary to our initial expectations, our results also show the existence of a close correlation between perceptions of economic conditions and subjective well-being for low social background individuals in times of economic prosperity, and an even stronger relationship in times of economic crisis. The article stipulates several potential explanations for these results.

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“…In addition to jointly developing an interaction scale for Italy based on CAMSIS procedures (De Luca et al 2012), their major contribution has been that they also developed an internationally comparable version of the CAMSIS scale. This international version of CAMSIS is called ICAMS and is available for the ISCO 88 (Meraviglia et al 2016).…”

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“…While Meraviglia and her colleagues also hold the position that interaction scales following the CAMSIS procedures should refer to "status groups in the Weberian sense" (De Luca et al 2012, p. 31), their empirical results point in another direction. Including ICAMS in a joint model with the SIOPS and the ISEI, Meraviglia et al (2016) argue that despite the clear conceptual differences between the three scales, there is a common latent construct that underlies all of them.…”

Section: Interaction Scalesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Occupation-Based Measures—An Overview and Discussion

2020

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Occupational information is among the most versatile categories of information about a person available in quantitative data. The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of occupation-based measures in different topic areas. These include not only measures for analyzing social stratification, such as prestige scales, socioeconomic indices and class schemes but also measures of workplace tasks, occupation-specific health risks, gender segregation, and occupational closure. Moreover, as the quality of such data depends on the quality of the underlying occupational information, we also provide an overview of how to collect occupational information in surveys, how to code this information, and how occupational classifications are commonly used. By doing so, we hope to increase researchers’ awareness of the potential of occupation-based analyses, as well as their knowledge of how to properly handle such measures in empirical analyses.

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A new international measure of social stratification

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Why do people perceive themselves as being downwardly or upwardly mobile?

Why do people perceive themselves as being downwardly or upwardly mobile?

Requiem for a Dream: Perceived Economic Conditions and Subjective Well-Being in Times of Prosperity and Economic Crisis

Occupation-Based Measures—An Overview and Discussion

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