Working couples and class identification

Berk, Marc L.; Kingston, Paul

doi:10.1080/02732173.1982.9981651

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“…We also exclude individuals not in the labor force (notably housewives) whose spouses have blue-collar or service jobs. The alternative, however, is the more questionable procedure of imputing a woman's class solely on the basis of her husband's occupation (Acker, 1973;Nock and Rossi, 1978;Berk and Kingston, 1982). While it may be argued that class is an attribute of a family rather than of an individual, there is no accepted convention of how to weight the economic roles of all family members.…”

Section: The Working Classmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Politics of Homeownership

Kingston

Thompson

Eichar

1984

American Politics Quarterly

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With multivariate analysis of national survey data from 1976 and 1980, we test the conventional wisdom that ownership has a conservatizing political effect and encourages political participation. Using measures of ideological identification, voting choice, and attitudes toward socioeconomic policy, we find that homeownership is associated to some extent with more conservative politics in the population as a whole, but its net effects are small or not significant. In terms of political participation, homeowners are somewhat more inclined to vote than renters, but not to participate more actively at the local or national level. We test also the proposition that homeownership has a conservatizing effect and promotes participation within the working class, in effect fragmenting it as a political force. Among workers, homeownership is associated modestly with a conservative orientation and participation in terms of voting.

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Section: The Working Classmentioning

confidence: 99%