David L Featherman
Biographic Data
| ID | 204548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David L Featherman |
| GIVEN NAMES | David L |
| FAMILY NAME | Featherman |
| SIGNATURE | FEATHERMAN D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 595 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Commentary
The social psychological legacy of Otis Dudley Duncan
Children as an Evocative Influence on Adults' Reactions to Terrorism
This longitudinal study involving repeated telephone interviews of a national probability sample assessed parents' and other adults' own psychological vulnerability, as well as any observed reactions of coresident and other children, immediately after September 11th, 2001 (N = 752) and again 1 year later (N = 484). For a significant minority of adults, perceived threat (from the terrorist attacks) to personal safety and security was both elevated…
Looking at Lives
What's Wrong with Sociology
How Americans Responded
On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, a group of social scientists at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) gathered to consider how they might employ their talents to help the country after the shocking events of that morning. The group included economists, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, demographers, and survey methodologists. Based upon their previous research experience, each of them proposed hypotheses on asp…
High, usual and impaired functioning in community-dwelling older men and women
Introduction
(1993). Introduction: Late Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood. Journal of Research on Adolescence: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 217-226
Emergent Theories of Aging
Schooling, Tracking, and Teenage Intelligence
Do schooling and tracking affect cognitive achievement in curriculum-related areas, while leaving basic scholastic intelligence unaltered? In the study presented in this article, we analyzed longitudinal data for young Israeli men born in 1954 to determine the effects of schooling and tracking in Israeli high schools on changes in psychometric intelligence during adolescence. The respondents' standardized scores on scholastic aptitude tests, admi…
Life-Span Development and Behavior, Vol. 7
Of Clocks That Time Us
Ontogenesis and Sociogenesis
Linking biographical, social and historical change is a long-standing objective within social psychology. Life-span research on human development, socialization and aging is renewing this tradition across the behavioral sciences under a different rubric-life course and life-span research. As yet, there is no internally consistent, interdisciplinary framework of concepts about developmental change in individuals and in organizational and cultural …
Societal Transformation in Norway and Change in the Life Course Transition Into Adulthood
Since World War I Norway has been transformed from a predominantly rural into a highly industrialized urban society, making it an ideal site for examining the relationship between industrial change and the temporal organization of the life course. This paper is part of a comprehensive effort to understand the histoncal and societal circumstances under which age becomes a more or less important basis of social organization. Using con tinuous event…
A revised socioeconomic index of occupational status
Social Stratification and Mobility
Introduction to Review Symposium on Opportunity and Change
Ransacking Mobility Tables
Developments in a Populist Paradigm
The American Occupational Structure Eleven Years Later
Opportunities are expanding
The Process of Stratification
Opportunity and change
Opportunity and Attainment in Australia
Schooling in Capitalist America
A revised socioeconomic index of occupational status
Sexual Inequalities and Socioeconomic Achievement in the U.S., 1962-1973
Intercohort shifts in mean education, occupational status and earnings for married persons in the experienced civilian labor forces of 1962 and 1973 represent socioeconomic improvements for both men and women. While the occupational and educational achievements of women have kept pace with men's and indeed exceed the male means, the ratio of female to male earnings has declined from 0.39 to 0.38 for persons in the ECLF. Causal models of the proce…
Assumptions of social mobility research in the U.S
Equality of Schooling
Among cohorts of U.S. men born during the first half of the twentieth century, as the length of schooling has increased, its variability has decreased and schooling has become more equally distributed. Intergenerational differences in schooling are larger than three years in some birth cohorts, but these differences may be declining, and the period of rapid increase in levels of schooling appears to be ending. The disadvantages in schooling assoc…
Changes in the Socioeconomic Stratification of the Races, 1962-73
The occupational socioeconomic status of men in the experienced civilian labor force (ECLF) rose between 1962 and 1973, and black men gained more than whites. Although the racial gap narrowed over the decade, black men in 1973 had not matched the occupational standing of white men in 1962. Intercohort changes in schooling and, to a lesser degree, changes in family background account for some of the shifts. Changes in the effects of schooling and …
Ontogenesis and Sociogenesis
Linking biographical, social and historical change is a long-standing objective within social psychology. Life-span research on human development, socialization and aging is renewing this tradition across the behavioral sciences under a different rubric-life course and life-span research. As yet, there is no internally consistent, interdisciplinary framework of concepts about developmental change in individuals and in organizational and cultural …
The Socioeconomic Achievement of White Religio-Ethnic Subgroups
In longitudinal data for the decade 1957-67, the socioeconomic achievement of white metropolitan native males from five religio-ethnic backgrounds is examined. Jews, regardless of ethnic ancestry, attain higher levels of education, occupation, and income than all other subgroups, while Roman Catholics of Italian and Mexican heritage achieve the lowest levels. Controlling statistically for social origins reduces the gross differentials by about on…
Prestige or Socioeconomic Scales in the Study of Occupational Achievement
Current research on status attainment usually employs either a scale of prestige or of socioeconomic status to rank order occupation titles. Consistently, in the United States (and in limited international comparisons), correlations among variables in basic stratification models which rest upon data in the metric of socioeconomic status are higher than those reflecting occupational prestige. Earlier work advanced a substantive argument for this o…
Social Structural and Psychological Antecedents of Self-Estrangement and Powerlessness
Estimates are presented for a structural equations model of the social structural and personality antecedents of two forms of early career alienation, self-estrangement and powerlessness. The sample consists of panel data from a cohort of 1 7-year-old men studied in 195 7 and again in 1972 (N = 442). Analysis is by multiple regression based on correlations corrected for unreliability, a strategy relating measured variables to their latent constru…
Response Errors of Black and Nonblack Males in Models of the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status
Biases due to measurement errors in structural equation models of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status were asessed by estimating unobserved variable models with data from the remeasurement program of the 1973 Occupational Changes in a Generation-II survey. We found persuasive evidence that reports of social background and achievement variables by nonblack males are subject to strickly random errors, while reports by black m…
How Americans Responded
On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, a group of social scientists at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) gathered to consider how they might employ their talents to help the country after the shocking events of that morning. The group included economists, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, demographers, and survey methodologists. Based upon their previous research experience, each of them proposed hypotheses on asp…
Racial Stratification and Socioeconomic Change in the American North and South
Recent change in the life-cycle processes of educational, occupational and earnings attainments is analyzed among black men native to the South, those native to the North, and black male migrants from the South to the North. Native northerners begin from relatively superior social origins and are better able to capitalize on these in the attainments of education and occupation than are either southern-born group. Between 1962 and 1973 the stratif…
A Research Note
Among a subset of the white male metropolitan population in the years 1957-67, the process of socioeconomic achievement is examined. These longitudinal data on occupational and economic attainment provide comparisons between synthetic cohort and real cohort models of achievement through the middle of the work career. Structural models of career achievement which fail to represent the "historical" quality of work careers ar incomplete. In more ela…
Achievement Orientations and Socioeconomic Career Attainments
In longitudinal data (1957-1967) for white metropolitan males in the United States, the impact of achievement orientations on career attainments and on the processes of social mobility from family of origin statuses to destination statuses is examined. Several path analytic models are constructed, in which achievement-related motivations are included as intervening variables, potentially capable of explaining how socioeconomic origins and/or earl…
Introduction
(1993). Introduction: Late Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood. Journal of Research on Adolescence: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 217-226
Societal Transformation in Norway and Change in the Life Course Transition Into Adulthood
Since World War I Norway has been transformed from a predominantly rural into a highly industrialized urban society, making it an ideal site for examining the relationship between industrial change and the temporal organization of the life course. This paper is part of a comprehensive effort to understand the histoncal and societal circumstances under which age becomes a more or less important basis of social organization. Using con tinuous event…
White-Nonwhite Differentials in Occupational Mobility among Men in the United States, 1962–1972
Intercohort shifts between 1962 and 1972 in the occupation distributions of white and nonwhite men are analyzed and compared at ages 35–44, 45–54, and 55–64. Both white and nonwhite occupation distributions were upgraded over the decade, but among nonwhites the shifts away from the lowest-status occupations were expressed partly in increasing rates of absence from the labor force. There are indications of especially rapid shifts in the occupation…
Schooling, Tracking, and Teenage Intelligence
Do schooling and tracking affect cognitive achievement in curriculum-related areas, while leaving basic scholastic intelligence unaltered? In the study presented in this article, we analyzed longitudinal data for young Israeli men born in 1954 to determine the effects of schooling and tracking in Israeli high schools on changes in psychometric intelligence during adolescence. The respondents' standardized scores on scholastic aptitude tests, admi…
Trends in the Occupational Mobility of U.S. Men, 1962-1970
Psychological and cultural factors in the process of occupational achievement
The social psychological legacy of Otis Dudley Duncan
Social Stratification and Mobility
Ransacking Mobility Tables
Opportunities are expanding
Emergent Theories of Aging
The Socioeconomic Achievement of White Religio-Ethnic Subgroups
In longitudinal data for the decade 1957-67, the socioeconomic achievement of white metropolitan native males from five religio-ethnic backgrounds is examined. Jews, regardless of ethnic ancestry, attain higher levels of education, occupation, and income than all other subgroups, while Roman Catholics of Italian and Mexican heritage achieve the lowest levels. Controlling statistically for social origins reduces the gross differentials by about on…
A Research Note
Among a subset of the white male metropolitan population in the years 1957-67, the process of socioeconomic achievement is examined. These longitudinal data on occupational and economic attainment provide comparisons between synthetic cohort and real cohort models of achievement through the middle of the work career. Structural models of career achievement which fail to represent the "historical" quality of work careers ar incomplete. In more ela…
Achievement Orientations and Socioeconomic Career Attainments
In longitudinal data (1957-1967) for white metropolitan males in the United States, the impact of achievement orientations on career attainments and on the processes of social mobility from family of origin statuses to destination statuses is examined. Several path analytic models are constructed, in which achievement-related motivations are included as intervening variables, potentially capable of explaining how socioeconomic origins and/or earl…
Psychological and cultural factors in the process of occupational achievement
The Contexts of Social Mobility
Trends in the Occupational Mobility of U.S. Men, 1962-1970
On the Measurement of Occupation in Social Surveys
Students of social inequality and stratification, especially those outside the discipline of sociology, frequently underestimate the quality of information on employment and occupation which can be elicited in social surveys. A brief overview of the current technology of occupation classification and scaling is offered in the hope of encouraging researchers to adopt more or less standard conventions which would render their work more reliable, va…
Socioeconomic Background and Achievement
The Analysis of Social Mobility
White-Nonwhite Differentials in Occupational Mobility among Men in the United States, 1962–1972
Intercohort shifts between 1962 and 1972 in the occupation distributions of white and nonwhite men are analyzed and compared at ages 35–44, 45–54, and 55–64. Both white and nonwhite occupation distributions were upgraded over the decade, but among nonwhites the shifts away from the lowest-status occupations were expressed partly in increasing rates of absence from the labor force. There are indications of especially rapid shifts in the occupation…
Assumptions of social mobility research in the U.S
Socioeconomic Background and Achievement
Social Structural and Psychological Antecedents of Self-Estrangement and Powerlessness
Estimates are presented for a structural equations model of the social structural and personality antecedents of two forms of early career alienation, self-estrangement and powerlessness. The sample consists of panel data from a cohort of 1 7-year-old men studied in 195 7 and again in 1972 (N = 442). Analysis is by multiple regression based on correlations corrected for unreliability, a strategy relating measured variables to their latent constru…
Social Stratification and Career Mobility
Schooling and achievement in American society
Sexual Inequalities and Socioeconomic Achievement in the U.S., 1962-1973
Intercohort shifts in mean education, occupational status and earnings for married persons in the experienced civilian labor forces of 1962 and 1973 represent socioeconomic improvements for both men and women. While the occupational and educational achievements of women have kept pace with men's and indeed exceed the male means, the ratio of female to male earnings has declined from 0.39 to 0.38 for persons in the ECLF. Causal models of the proce…
Equality of Schooling
Among cohorts of U.S. men born during the first half of the twentieth century, as the length of schooling has increased, its variability has decreased and schooling has become more equally distributed. Intergenerational differences in schooling are larger than three years in some birth cohorts, but these differences may be declining, and the period of rapid increase in levels of schooling appears to be ending. The disadvantages in schooling assoc…
Prestige or Socioeconomic Scales in the Study of Occupational Achievement
Current research on status attainment usually employs either a scale of prestige or of socioeconomic status to rank order occupation titles. Consistently, in the United States (and in limited international comparisons), correlations among variables in basic stratification models which rest upon data in the metric of socioeconomic status are higher than those reflecting occupational prestige. Earlier work advanced a substantive argument for this o…
Changes in the Socioeconomic Stratification of the Races, 1962-73
The occupational socioeconomic status of men in the experienced civilian labor force (ECLF) rose between 1962 and 1973, and black men gained more than whites. Although the racial gap narrowed over the decade, black men in 1973 had not matched the occupational standing of white men in 1962. Intercohort changes in schooling and, to a lesser degree, changes in family background account for some of the shifts. Changes in the effects of schooling and …
Schooling in Capitalist America
Response Errors of Black and Nonblack Males in Models of the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status
Biases due to measurement errors in structural equation models of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status were asessed by estimating unobserved variable models with data from the remeasurement program of the 1973 Occupational Changes in a Generation-II survey. We found persuasive evidence that reports of social background and achievement variables by nonblack males are subject to strickly random errors, while reports by black m…
Ethnicity, Denomination, and Inequality
Journal Article Ethnicity, Denomination, and Inequality by Andrew M. Greeley. Sage Research Papers in the Social Sciences (Studies in Religion and Ethnicity, Vol. 4, Series No. 90-029) Beverly Hills and London: Sage Publications, Inc. 1976, 85 pp. $3.00 Get access David L. Featherman David L. Featherman University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 38, Issue …
Racial Stratification and Socioeconomic Change in the American North and South
Recent change in the life-cycle processes of educational, occupational and earnings attainments is analyzed among black men native to the South, those native to the North, and black male migrants from the South to the North. Native northerners begin from relatively superior social origins and are better able to capitalize on these in the attainments of education and occupation than are either southern-born group. Between 1962 and 1973 the stratif…
Opportunity and change
Opportunity and Attainment in Australia
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