The transmission of socioeconomic status and prestige in Great Britain and the United States |
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Authors: | Alan C Kerckhoff Richard T Campbell Jerry M Trott Vered Kraus |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology, Duke University, 27706 Durham, North Carolina;(2) Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Box 4348, 60680 Chicago, Illinois;(3) North Carolina Educational Computing Service, P.O. Box 12035, 27709 Research Triangle Park, North Carolina;(4) Department of Sociology, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, 31 999 Haifa, Israel |
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Abstract: | We analyze male occupational attainment using separate models in which occupational level is measured by indigenous socioeconomic index (SEI) scales, indigenous prestige scales, and a common prestige scale. Other than some consistent societal differences, the SEI scales produce highly similar results in both societies. In sharp contrast, both indigenous and common prestige scales indicate a stronger relative effect of origin (compared with education) on occupation in Great Britain. The dimensions of prestige and socioeconomic status thus seem to tap different aspects of the social mobility process, and the societies differ in the transmission of prestige but not socioeconomic status. |
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Keywords: | status prestige social mobility comparative stratification |
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