Kenneth Prandy
Biographic Data
| ID | 161628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Prandy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Prandy |
| SIGNATURE | PRANDY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 238 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Construction of Hiscam: A Stratification Scale Based on Social Interactions for Historical Comparative Research
A new occupational stratification scale, "HISCAM" (historical CAMSIS), has been developed to facilitate the analysis of data coded to the Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations. This article describes the derivation and properties of the HISCAM measure. The scale was derived using patterns of inter-generational occupational connections, replicating a method of "social interaction distance" analysis which is widely used in…
The importance of specificity in occupation‐based social classifications
Purpose This paper aims to present reasons why social classifications which use occupations should seek to adopt “specific” approaches which are tailored to the country, time period and gender of the subjects under study. Design/methodology/approach The relative motivations for adopting a specific approach to social classifications are discussed and theoretical perspectives on specificity and empirical evidence on the contribution of specific app…
By Slow Degrees: Two Centuries of Social Reproduction and Mobility in Britain
This paper discusses long term trends in patterns of intergenerational social mobility in Britain. We argue that there is convincing empirical evidence of a small but steady linear trend towards increasing social mobility throughout the period 1800-2004. Our conclusions are based upon the construction and analysis of an extended micro-social dataset, which combines records from an historical genealogical study, with responses from 31 sample surve…
Social interaction distance and stratification
There have been calls from several sources recently for a renewal of class analysis that would encompass social and cultural, as well as economic elements. This paper explores a tradition in stratification that is founded on this idea: relational or social distance approaches to mapping hierarchy and inequality which theorize stratification as a social space. The idea of 'social space' is not treated as a metaphor of hierarchy nor is the nature o…
Marriage, Social Distance and the Social Space: An Alternative Derivation and Validation of the Cambridge Scale
There is a danger that the Cambridge Scale, which is based on data collected thirty years ago, is becoming out of date. This article considers an alternative basis for a social interaction-based social distance scale, that of marriage (or cohabitation) rather than friendship. This has considerable advantages in terms of the ready, low-cost availability of large-scale, representative data (usually from a census). It also makes easily possible the …
Ideal types, stereotypes and classes
Several recent articles seeking to validate the Goldthorpe class schema have implicitly raised some interesting questions about the relation between analytical techniques and theory. The favoured technique of latent class analysis actually brings this variety of class analysis close to the much older tradition of ideal-type analysis. In doing so, it helps to illustrate a much wider problem that arises in any conceptualization in terms of classes.…
Women's Occupations and the Social Order in Nineteenth Century Britain
This paper examines the hierarchy amongst female occupations in Britain in the nineteenth century, using information on marriage and family patterns to generate a measure of distance within a social space. This social interaction approach to stratification uses the patterning of close relationships, in this case between women and men, to build up a picture of the social ordering within which such relationships take place. The method presented her…
Reproduction within and between Generations: The Example of Nineteenth-Century Britain
Class, the Stratification Order and Party Identification
The debate over class dealignment is in part a debate about the meaning of class, which cannot be separated from the issue of the relationship between class and voting. Neither the simplified two-class model that has often been used nor the more sophisticated Goldthorpe class schema are adequate either at the conceptual or the empirical level. Both fail to deal coherently with the intermediate positions in the class structure. The argument that `…
Social Reproduction and Mobility in Britain and Ireland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
This article presents some preliminary results from a historical study of social mobility in Britain and Ireland, from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. The study is marked by a unique combination of features: (1) it follows families for up to five generations, through both maternal and paternal lines; (2) it uses a continuous measure of social position, rather than class categories; (3) this measure is derived from data on soci…
The social interaction approach to the measurement and analysis of social stratification
Reverses the traditional approach of defining classes or status groups before investigating patterns of social interaction by using patterns of interaction between more basic units such as occupational groups to determine the nature of stratification order. Outlines the theoretical basis and compares this to other methods before giving examples of applications
Class, stratification and inequalities in health: A comparison of the Registrar-General's Social Classes and the Cambridge Scale
Using published standardised mortality ratios for individual occupational groups in 1981, the value of the Registrar-General's Social Class schema for analysing health inequalities is compared with an alternative approach to the measurement of social stratification, the Cambridge Scale. A major issue is the extent to which the social classes really constitute social groups with a high degree of internal homogeneity and with clear boundaries betwe…
Deconstructing Classes: Critical comments on the revised social classification
Rose and O'Reilly, in their article elsewhere in this issue (1998) and in their recent book (1997), give an account of their construction of a revised set of social classes, a social classification. In this comment I propose to show that they do not achieve what they set out to do, that their attempted justification of their procedure is flawed, that their dependence on definition in terms of economic contractual relations fails to take account o…
Deconstructing Classes: Critical Comments on the Revised Social Classification
Deconstructing Classes: Critical Comments on the Revised Social Classification
Rose and O'Reilly, in their article elsewhere in this issue (1998) and in their recent book (1997), give an account of their construction of a revised set of social classes, a social classification. In this comment I propose to show that they do not achieve what they set out to do, that their attempted justification of their procedure is flawed, that their dependence on definition in terms of economic contractual relations fails to take account o…
Class and Continuity in Social Reproduction: An Empirical Investigation
The class tradition in the study of social mobility suffers from a number of theoretical and practical weaknesses. In this article we concentrate on the issue of how well the Goldthorpe/CASMIN class schema explains the extent of the social reproduction of advantage when compared with the Cambridge Scale, a continuous measure of occupational and social hierarchy. If classes are to be given any useful meaning, then the groupings involved should be …
The Reproduction of Social Inequality
Ideological assumptions of equality and economic individualism have permeated the traditional analysis of social mobility. This is shown most clearly in the use of perfect mobility as the theoretical model that underlies most of the empirical analyses. A major consequence is that these analyses have offered a poor conceptualisation of the nature of the structure within which movement occurs, and have tended to ignore the question of relative dist…
Putting Men and Women into Classes: But is that Where They Belong? A Comment on Evans
Evans's (1996) claim in the May issue, like his earlier one (Evans, 1992), is to have provided a validation of the Goldthorpe class schema, here in relation to women as well as to men. His thoughtful discussion of these issues is welcome, but it has, nevertheless to be treated with considerable scepticism. In this note we shall demonstrate, first, that he misunderstands what the validation of such a schema entails; second, that the nature of the …
A reply to Robinson's ‘comment’
Ethnic discrimination in employment and housing: Evidence from the 1966 British census
1979). Ethnic discrimination in employment and housing: Evidence from the 1966 British census. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 66-79
Alienation and Interests in the Analysis of Social Cognitions
Professional Employees: A Study of Scientists and Engineers
Administering Research and Development
Professional Employees: A Study of Scientists and Engineers
The Construction of Hiscam: A Stratification Scale Based on Social Interactions for Historical Comparative Research
A new occupational stratification scale, "HISCAM" (historical CAMSIS), has been developed to facilitate the analysis of data coded to the Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations. This article describes the derivation and properties of the HISCAM measure. The scale was derived using patterns of inter-generational occupational connections, replicating a method of "social interaction distance" analysis which is widely used in…
Marriage, Social Distance and the Social Space: An Alternative Derivation and Validation of the Cambridge Scale
There is a danger that the Cambridge Scale, which is based on data collected thirty years ago, is becoming out of date. This article considers an alternative basis for a social interaction-based social distance scale, that of marriage (or cohabitation) rather than friendship. This has considerable advantages in terms of the ready, low-cost availability of large-scale, representative data (usually from a census). It also makes easily possible the …
Social interaction distance and stratification
There have been calls from several sources recently for a renewal of class analysis that would encompass social and cultural, as well as economic elements. This paper explores a tradition in stratification that is founded on this idea: relational or social distance approaches to mapping hierarchy and inequality which theorize stratification as a social space. The idea of 'social space' is not treated as a metaphor of hierarchy nor is the nature o…
Social Reproduction and Mobility in Britain and Ireland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
This article presents some preliminary results from a historical study of social mobility in Britain and Ireland, from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. The study is marked by a unique combination of features: (1) it follows families for up to five generations, through both maternal and paternal lines; (2) it uses a continuous measure of social position, rather than class categories; (3) this measure is derived from data on soci…
Class, stratification and inequalities in health: A comparison of the Registrar-General's Social Classes and the Cambridge Scale
Using published standardised mortality ratios for individual occupational groups in 1981, the value of the Registrar-General's Social Class schema for analysing health inequalities is compared with an alternative approach to the measurement of social stratification, the Cambridge Scale. A major issue is the extent to which the social classes really constitute social groups with a high degree of internal homogeneity and with clear boundaries betwe…
By Slow Degrees: Two Centuries of Social Reproduction and Mobility in Britain
This paper discusses long term trends in patterns of intergenerational social mobility in Britain. We argue that there is convincing empirical evidence of a small but steady linear trend towards increasing social mobility throughout the period 1800-2004. Our conclusions are based upon the construction and analysis of an extended micro-social dataset, which combines records from an historical genealogical study, with responses from 31 sample surve…
Class and Continuity in Social Reproduction: An Empirical Investigation
The class tradition in the study of social mobility suffers from a number of theoretical and practical weaknesses. In this article we concentrate on the issue of how well the Goldthorpe/CASMIN class schema explains the extent of the social reproduction of advantage when compared with the Cambridge Scale, a continuous measure of occupational and social hierarchy. If classes are to be given any useful meaning, then the groupings involved should be …
The Reproduction of Social Inequality
Ideological assumptions of equality and economic individualism have permeated the traditional analysis of social mobility. This is shown most clearly in the use of perfect mobility as the theoretical model that underlies most of the empirical analyses. A major consequence is that these analyses have offered a poor conceptualisation of the nature of the structure within which movement occurs, and have tended to ignore the question of relative dist…
The social interaction approach to the measurement and analysis of social stratification
Reverses the traditional approach of defining classes or status groups before investigating patterns of social interaction by using patterns of interaction between more basic units such as occupational groups to determine the nature of stratification order. Outlines the theoretical basis and compares this to other methods before giving examples of applications
Putting Men and Women into Classes: But is that Where They Belong? A Comment on Evans
Evans's (1996) claim in the May issue, like his earlier one (Evans, 1992), is to have provided a validation of the Goldthorpe class schema, here in relation to women as well as to men. His thoughtful discussion of these issues is welcome, but it has, nevertheless to be treated with considerable scepticism. In this note we shall demonstrate, first, that he misunderstands what the validation of such a schema entails; second, that the nature of the …
Class, the Stratification Order and Party Identification
The debate over class dealignment is in part a debate about the meaning of class, which cannot be separated from the issue of the relationship between class and voting. Neither the simplified two-class model that has often been used nor the more sophisticated Goldthorpe class schema are adequate either at the conceptual or the empirical level. Both fail to deal coherently with the intermediate positions in the class structure. The argument that `…
Reproduction within and between Generations: The Example of Nineteenth-Century Britain
Ideal types, stereotypes and classes
Several recent articles seeking to validate the Goldthorpe class schema have implicitly raised some interesting questions about the relation between analytical techniques and theory. The favoured technique of latent class analysis actually brings this variety of class analysis close to the much older tradition of ideal-type analysis. In doing so, it helps to illustrate a much wider problem that arises in any conceptualization in terms of classes.…
The importance of specificity in occupation‐based social classifications
Purpose This paper aims to present reasons why social classifications which use occupations should seek to adopt “specific” approaches which are tailored to the country, time period and gender of the subjects under study. Design/methodology/approach The relative motivations for adopting a specific approach to social classifications are discussed and theoretical perspectives on specificity and empirical evidence on the contribution of specific app…
Women's Occupations and the Social Order in Nineteenth Century Britain
This paper examines the hierarchy amongst female occupations in Britain in the nineteenth century, using information on marriage and family patterns to generate a measure of distance within a social space. This social interaction approach to stratification uses the patterning of close relationships, in this case between women and men, to build up a picture of the social ordering within which such relationships take place. The method presented her…
Deconstructing Classes: Critical Comments on the Revised Social Classification
Alienation and Interests in the Analysis of Social Cognitions
Ethnic discrimination in employment and housing: Evidence from the 1966 British census
1979). Ethnic discrimination in employment and housing: Evidence from the 1966 British census. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 66-79
Professional Employees: A Study of Scientists and Engineers
Deconstructing Classes: Critical Comments on the Revised Social Classification
Rose and O'Reilly, in their article elsewhere in this issue (1998) and in their recent book (1997), give an account of their construction of a revised set of social classes, a social classification. In this comment I propose to show that they do not achieve what they set out to do, that their attempted justification of their procedure is flawed, that their dependence on definition in terms of economic contractual relations fails to take account o…
Administering Research and Development
Professional Employees: A Study of Scientists and Engineers
Administering Research and Development
Professional Employees: A Study of Scientists and Engineers
Professional Employees: A Study of Scientists and Engineers
Ethnic discrimination in employment and housing: Evidence from the 1966 British census
1979). Ethnic discrimination in employment and housing: Evidence from the 1966 British census. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 66-79
Alienation and Interests in the Analysis of Social Cognitions
A reply to Robinson's ‘comment’
The Reproduction of Social Inequality
Ideological assumptions of equality and economic individualism have permeated the traditional analysis of social mobility. This is shown most clearly in the use of perfect mobility as the theoretical model that underlies most of the empirical analyses. A major consequence is that these analyses have offered a poor conceptualisation of the nature of the structure within which movement occurs, and have tended to ignore the question of relative dist…
Putting Men and Women into Classes: But is that Where They Belong? A Comment on Evans
Evans's (1996) claim in the May issue, like his earlier one (Evans, 1992), is to have provided a validation of the Goldthorpe class schema, here in relation to women as well as to men. His thoughtful discussion of these issues is welcome, but it has, nevertheless to be treated with considerable scepticism. In this note we shall demonstrate, first, that he misunderstands what the validation of such a schema entails; second, that the nature of the …
Deconstructing Classes: Critical comments on the revised social classification
Rose and O'Reilly, in their article elsewhere in this issue (1998) and in their recent book (1997), give an account of their construction of a revised set of social classes, a social classification. In this comment I propose to show that they do not achieve what they set out to do, that their attempted justification of their procedure is flawed, that their dependence on definition in terms of economic contractual relations fails to take account o…
Deconstructing Classes: Critical Comments on the Revised Social Classification
Deconstructing Classes: Critical Comments on the Revised Social Classification
Rose and O'Reilly, in their article elsewhere in this issue (1998) and in their recent book (1997), give an account of their construction of a revised set of social classes, a social classification. In this comment I propose to show that they do not achieve what they set out to do, that their attempted justification of their procedure is flawed, that their dependence on definition in terms of economic contractual relations fails to take account o…
Class and Continuity in Social Reproduction: An Empirical Investigation
The class tradition in the study of social mobility suffers from a number of theoretical and practical weaknesses. In this article we concentrate on the issue of how well the Goldthorpe/CASMIN class schema explains the extent of the social reproduction of advantage when compared with the Cambridge Scale, a continuous measure of occupational and social hierarchy. If classes are to be given any useful meaning, then the groupings involved should be …
The social interaction approach to the measurement and analysis of social stratification
Reverses the traditional approach of defining classes or status groups before investigating patterns of social interaction by using patterns of interaction between more basic units such as occupational groups to determine the nature of stratification order. Outlines the theoretical basis and compares this to other methods before giving examples of applications
Class, stratification and inequalities in health: A comparison of the Registrar-General's Social Classes and the Cambridge Scale
Using published standardised mortality ratios for individual occupational groups in 1981, the value of the Registrar-General's Social Class schema for analysing health inequalities is compared with an alternative approach to the measurement of social stratification, the Cambridge Scale. A major issue is the extent to which the social classes really constitute social groups with a high degree of internal homogeneity and with clear boundaries betwe…
Reproduction within and between Generations: The Example of Nineteenth-Century Britain
Class, the Stratification Order and Party Identification
The debate over class dealignment is in part a debate about the meaning of class, which cannot be separated from the issue of the relationship between class and voting. Neither the simplified two-class model that has often been used nor the more sophisticated Goldthorpe class schema are adequate either at the conceptual or the empirical level. Both fail to deal coherently with the intermediate positions in the class structure. The argument that `…
Social Reproduction and Mobility in Britain and Ireland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
This article presents some preliminary results from a historical study of social mobility in Britain and Ireland, from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. The study is marked by a unique combination of features: (1) it follows families for up to five generations, through both maternal and paternal lines; (2) it uses a continuous measure of social position, rather than class categories; (3) this measure is derived from data on soci…
Women's Occupations and the Social Order in Nineteenth Century Britain
This paper examines the hierarchy amongst female occupations in Britain in the nineteenth century, using information on marriage and family patterns to generate a measure of distance within a social space. This social interaction approach to stratification uses the patterning of close relationships, in this case between women and men, to build up a picture of the social ordering within which such relationships take place. The method presented her…
Ideal types, stereotypes and classes
Several recent articles seeking to validate the Goldthorpe class schema have implicitly raised some interesting questions about the relation between analytical techniques and theory. The favoured technique of latent class analysis actually brings this variety of class analysis close to the much older tradition of ideal-type analysis. In doing so, it helps to illustrate a much wider problem that arises in any conceptualization in terms of classes.…
Social interaction distance and stratification
There have been calls from several sources recently for a renewal of class analysis that would encompass social and cultural, as well as economic elements. This paper explores a tradition in stratification that is founded on this idea: relational or social distance approaches to mapping hierarchy and inequality which theorize stratification as a social space. The idea of 'social space' is not treated as a metaphor of hierarchy nor is the nature o…
Marriage, Social Distance and the Social Space: An Alternative Derivation and Validation of the Cambridge Scale
There is a danger that the Cambridge Scale, which is based on data collected thirty years ago, is becoming out of date. This article considers an alternative basis for a social interaction-based social distance scale, that of marriage (or cohabitation) rather than friendship. This has considerable advantages in terms of the ready, low-cost availability of large-scale, representative data (usually from a census). It also makes easily possible the …
By Slow Degrees: Two Centuries of Social Reproduction and Mobility in Britain
This paper discusses long term trends in patterns of intergenerational social mobility in Britain. We argue that there is convincing empirical evidence of a small but steady linear trend towards increasing social mobility throughout the period 1800-2004. Our conclusions are based upon the construction and analysis of an extended micro-social dataset, which combines records from an historical genealogical study, with responses from 31 sample surve…
The importance of specificity in occupation‐based social classifications
Purpose This paper aims to present reasons why social classifications which use occupations should seek to adopt “specific” approaches which are tailored to the country, time period and gender of the subjects under study. Design/methodology/approach The relative motivations for adopting a specific approach to social classifications are discussed and theoretical perspectives on specificity and empirical evidence on the contribution of specific app…
The Construction of Hiscam: A Stratification Scale Based on Social Interactions for Historical Comparative Research
A new occupational stratification scale, "HISCAM" (historical CAMSIS), has been developed to facilitate the analysis of data coded to the Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations. This article describes the derivation and properties of the HISCAM measure. The scale was derived using patterns of inter-generational occupational connections, replicating a method of "social interaction distance" analysis which is widely used in…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (13 works) · Social science (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Mathematics (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (10 works) · Social stratification (10 works)