Kritik des Prestiges

Wegener, Bernd

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“…Both variables were coded with the Wegener Prestige Scale (Wegener, 1988) and used to calculate an index for the SES of the participating children.…”

Section: Socioeconomic Background (Ses)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Executive Functions in 5- to 8-Year Olds: Developmental Changes and Relationship to Academic Achievement

Röthlisberger¹,

Neuenschwander²,

Cimeli³

et al. 2013

JEDP

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Pronounced improvements in executive functions (EF) during preschool years have been documented in cross-sectional studies. However, longitudinal evidence on EF development during the transition to school and predictive associations between early EF and later school achievement are still scarce. This study examined developmental changes in EF across three time-points, the predictive value of EF for mathematical, reading and spelling skills and explored children's specific academic attainment as a function of early EF. Participants were 323 children following regular education; 160 children were enrolled in prekindergarten (younger cohort: 69 months) and 163 children in kindergarten (older cohort: 78.4 months) at the first assessment. Various tasks of EF were administered three times with an interval of one year each. Mathematical, reading and spelling skills were measured at the last assessment. Individual background characteristics such as vocabulary, non-verbal intelligence and socioeconomic status were included as control variables. In both cohorts, changes in EF were substantial; improvements in EF, however, were larger in preschoolers than school-aged children. EF assessed in preschool accounted for substantial variability in mathematical, reading and spelling achievement two years later, with low EF being especially associated with significant academic disadvantages in early school years. Given that EF continue to develop from preschool into primary school years and that starting with low EF is associated with lower school achievement, EF may be considered as a marker or risk for academic disabilities.

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“…Both variables were coded with the Wegener Prestige Scale (Wegener, 1988) and used to calculate an index for the SES of the participating children.…”

Section: Socioeconomic Background (Ses)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Executive Functions in 5- to 8-Year Olds: Developmental Changes and Relationship to Academic Achievement

Röthlisberger¹,

Neuenschwander²,

Cimeli³

et al. 2013

JEDP

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“…We want to stress here again that in our empirical analyses we measure men's "goodness of jobs" at entry into the labour market and across the job career not in terms of men's wages but in terms of the broader sociological concept of MPS. The MPS is based on the ISCO (International Standard Classification of Occupations) codes of jobs and is a well-known as well as often applied standard and empirically proven measure in sociology in order to describe the "quality of jobs" in an occupational hierarchy (Wegener 1988(Wegener , 1992Blossfeld 1986). Compared to income or wages, MPS scores can be considered as a much broader measure of the quality of jobs and their benefits since they do not only capture aspects of earnings quality, but also aspects of labour market security (economic security related to the risks of job losses in certain occupations) and quality of the working environment (non-economic aspects of jobs, including the nature and content of the work performed as well as workplace relationships).…”

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“…Using combined data from the German Life History Study (GLHS) and longitudinal study 'Working and Learning in a Changing World' (ALWA: Arbeiten und Lernen im Wandel), we reconstruct the career histories of men born between 1929 and 1976, and analyse how their careers were shaped by macroeconomic changes between 1945 and 2008. As a measure of men's "goodness of jobs" at entry into the labour market and across the job career we do not use wages but the broader sociological concept of magnitude prestige scale (MPS) suggested by Wegener (1988Wegener ( , 1992. Taking into account the job entry and career processes of men over a long observation window allows us to distinguish between the effects of age (A), period (P) and cohort (C) on the career processes in a more detailed manner.…”

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Entry of men into the labour market in West Germany and their career mobility (1945–2008)

Becker

Blossfeld

2017

J Labour Market Res

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This study analyses how the long-term modernisation process as well as ups and downs of business cycles affect the entry of men into the labour market in West Germany and their career mobility. Combining longitudinal data from the German Life History Study and the ALWA study, we first reconstructed men's job histories continuously for the period between 1945 and 2008. As a measure of men's 'goodness of jobs' at entry into the labour market and across the job career, the magnitude prestige scale (MPS), has been employed. Then, we used the time series data obtained from official statistics to perform factor analysis and suggest a more substantially grounded approach than the conventional approach to the analysis of age (A), period (P) and cohort (C) effects. In particular, we assessed how the modernisation process and continuously changing labour market conditions affect men's entry into the labour market across successive cohorts. Based on their further occupational careers, we used a multi-level event-history model to study how placements in first jobs (cohort effect) and the continuously changing macro structure (period effect) influence men's upward, lateral, and downward career mobility, controlling for men's individual-level resources, such as educational attainment and changing labour force experience (life-course or age effect). This fully dynamic analysis shows that there was improvement in the quality of entry-level jobs and increased mobility across men's birth cohorts. This allows us to gain a better understanding of how long-term macroeconomic trends have influenced social inequality in West Germany across several generations.

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“…Distinktive Wahrnehmungsmuster sind für die So zialstrukturanalyse von grundlegender Bedeutung. Kleining (1961: 153) /Müller 1976;Wegener 1988). Der hohe theoretische Stellenwert, welcher hier der Wahr nehmung bei der Sozialstrukturanalyse einge räumt wird, steht im Einklang mit dem Struktur konzept von Giddens, das durch die Dualität von wahrnehmendem Subjekt und sozialem Struktur objekt gekennzeichnet ist: Distinktive Wahrneh mungsmuster enthalten strukturierende "Deu tungsschemata" (Giddens 1984: 148) sozialer Gruppierungen, die dann als Handlungsorientie rungen durch den Vollzug sozialen Handelns wie derum strukturbildend wirksam werden.…”

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Wandel der Milieulandschaft in Deutschland

Müller-Schneider¹

1996

Zeitschrift Für Soziologie

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Kritik des Prestiges

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Executive Functions in 5- to 8-Year Olds: Developmental Changes and Relationship to Academic Achievement

Executive Functions in 5- to 8-Year Olds: Developmental Changes and Relationship to Academic Achievement

Entry of men into the labour market in West Germany and their career mobility (1945–2008)

Wandel der Milieulandschaft in Deutschland

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