The Space of Economic and Cultural Capital: A Latent Class Analysis for Germany

Waitkus, Nora; Groh-Samberg, Olaf

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“…We established an elaborate class structure with one upper class, four middle classes, and two lower classes (cf. Savage et al, 2013;Waitkus & Groh-Samberg, 2019). Our class typology demonstrates the heterogeneous and fragmented nature of the class structure, in particular within the middle segment.…”

Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 84%

“…In turn, the responses provided by respondents on the relevant variables determine their most likely class membership. LCA is an interesting method for social class analysis, because it can identify similar individuals who might possess much of a certain capital type but little of another (Waitkus & Groh-Samberg, 2019;cf. Hagenaars & Halman, 1989).…”

Section: Methods and Model Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Flemmen et al, 2019). Others have diverged from Bourdieu's model of social space, which is methodologically based on multiple correspondence analysis, to determine the class structure (Custers & Engbersen, 2020;Savage et al, 2013;Waitkus & Groh-Samberg, 2019). Instead of mapping class positions onto a twodimensional space, these studies developed class typologies to identify and accentuate certain divisions within the class hierarchy.…”

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“…In this way the volume and composition of capital -i.e. people's capital portfolios -can be more easily quantified, which potentially provides more insight into class-specific strategies (Waitkus & Groh-Samberg, 2019). Savage et al (2013) exemplify how typologies can illuminate capital portfolios by showing that classes can strongly differ from each other -the elite versus the precariat -while also providing insight into class fragmentations in the middle segment.…”

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The urban class structure: class change and spatial divisions from a multidimensional class perspective

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2021

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Social class plays a central role in understanding the urban structure, yet its conceptualization and operationalization in urban studies are limited. We have used the Bourdieusian conception of social class, which conceives of class as the possession of economic, social and cultural capital, to establish the class structure of Rotterdam. We make a theoretical contribution to the literature by discussing how this conception provides new insights into the professionalization-polarization debate. Furthermore, we examine the spatial distributions of different class fractions, known as the geography of class. Based on two waves of a comprehensive city survey, we applied latent class analysis to develop an elaborate class typology consisting of seven social classes. We investigate how the class structure developed between 2008 and 2017 and analyze the changes in spatial class divisions. Our findings show that the transformation of the class structure is mainly driven by changes in cultural capital, that is, middle classes with high cultural capital replacing lower and middle classes with low cultural capital. Spatial analyses further reveal that classes are dispersed in specific ways and that these patterns of dispersion change over time. Finally, we reflect on the relevance of Bourdieu's work in studying the urban class structure ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

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Engbersen

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“…Dans la mesure où les inégalités entre individus ou groupes sociaux sont toujours fondées sur des différences dans la possession d'attributs valorisés et que, dans le contexte d'une « économie de marché » et d'une « société du savoir » (Da Costa et al, 2018), c'est l'inégale distribution des ressources économiques et des ressources culturelles qui structure l'espace des positions sociales (Bourdieu, 1979 ;Savage et al, 1992 ;Savage et al, 2013 ;Savage, 2015 ;Flemmen, 2014 ;Atkinson et Deeming, 2015 ;Waitkus et Groh-Samberg, 2017 ;Flemmen et al, 2018 ;Waitkus et Groh-Samberg, 2019), nous avons fait le choix de nous focaliser sur les niveaux de revenu et de diplôme qui s'associent aux différentes catégories des nomenclatures. Outre le fait qu'il s'agit là de ressources pour lesquelles l'enquête Emploi fournit des données, les revenus et les diplômes apparaissent en effet fondamentalement attachés au statut professionnel 8 : de fait, on sait très bien qu'en France, les professions occupées par les individus dépendent fortement des diplômes qu'ils et elles possèdent (Salais, 1970 ;Millet et Moreau, 2011) et qu'il existe par ailleurs un lien ténu entre professions et revenus (Gonzalez et Sueur, 2020).…”

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Foudi

2022

Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie S

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Bringing to light income and diploma inequalities. On the ‘stratificationist’ efficiency of the PCS Classification, the ESeG classification and the Employment class schema. Occupational classifications are among the main tools for objectivizing the structure of a society and they are sometimes used to grasp the inequalities within it. This paper aims at offering several indicators designed to assess occupational classifications’ ability to shed light on the unequal distribution of resources between social groups. Three classifications are here studied: the French PCS-2003 and the French Employment class schema from INSEE and the European ESeG classification. After recalling their principles and objectives, we lay down the usual procedures used to assess occupational classifications and we show that they don’t aim to grasp their ability to reflect social stratification. Using fractiles, which are commonly-used tool for analysing inequalities, we then offer two sets of indicators designed to assess the occupational classifications’ efficiency to reflect the slope, the shape and the extent of the inequalities in a population. Using these tools and data from the 2017 French Labour Force Survey, we show that at the aggregate level of the classifications studied, it is the four Employment class schema that best captures the unequal distribution of income and diplomas between population groups, whereas at the detailed level, it is rather the PCS. We finally put forward proposals for recomposing some of the categories of the PCS and the Employment class schema so as to make these classifications more efficient to reflect social stratification.

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2023

Global Handbook of Inequality

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The Space of Economic and Cultural Capital: A Latent Class Analysis for Germany

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

The urban class structure: class change and spatial divisions from a multidimensional class perspective

The urban class structure: class change and spatial divisions from a multidimensional class perspective

Traduire l’inégale distribution des revenus et des diplômes : Une évaluation de l’efficacité stratificationniste de la nomenclature des PCS, de l’ESeG et de la grille en classes d’emploi

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