Catherine Marsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3659525 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Marsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Marsh |
| SIGNATURE | MARSH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Social Change and the Experience of Unemployment
The single most important change in the British labour market over the last two decades has been the re-emergence of mass unemployment. This study focuses on six areas: Aberdeen, Kirkcaldy, Rochdale, Coventry, Northampton, and Swindon, and investigates the effect of being unemployed on individuals' attitudes to work, their social relationships, and their psychological health. It breaks entirely new ground, using large-scale surveys that allow dir…
Social Change and the Experience of Unemployment
The experience of convergence - a tale of six cities, Catherine Marsh, Carolyn Vogler unemployment in work histories, Jonathan Gershuny, Catherine Marsh unemployment and attitudes to work, Duncan Gallie, Carolyn Vogler the relationship between a husband's unemployment and his wife's participation in the labour force, Richard Davies, Peter Elias, et al the effects of labour market position, job insecurity, and unemployment on psychological health,…
Cultural Mediation of Political Responses to Unemployment: A Comparison of Spain and the Uk
Should the unemployed be viewed as an underclass at the bottom of the stratification heap in modern societies? In the 1930s, the answer given by social scientists was unambiguously negative. The unemployed could not be considered as a social class; they were “a mass numerically not socially” who showed no group or class consciousness (Zawadsky and Lazarsfeld, 1935, p.2). The people who were unemployed at any one point in time, the argument ran, w…
Families and Households: Divisions and Change
Consumption and Class, Divisions and Change
List of Tables and Figures - Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Consumption, Class and Contemporary Sociology R.Burrows & C.Marsh - Notes on the Relationship Between Production and Consumption A.Warde - Constructing Consumers and Consumer Protection: The Case of the Life Insurance Industry in the United Kingdom G.Morgan & D.Knights - Social Class, Consumption Divisions and Housing Mobility M.Savage, P.Watt & S.Arber - Medicine and Markets: Pow…
Consumption and Class: Divisions and Change
Consumption and Class: Divisions and Change
Education and Social Class: Revisiting the 1944 Education Act with Fixed Marginals
Trends in class inequality in attendance at selective schools are hard to interpret, since the number of places at these schools and the distribution of children by class also change over time. Reanalysing data from the Nuffield Mobility Study, it is shown that interpretation of the trends depends on which measure of association is used. By viewing stratification as a continuous hierarchy which is then sliced up into « classes » of differing size…
The protestant work ethic as a cultural phenomenon
A central contention of much of the literature about the nature of work values and the meaning of work is that there is (or at least has been) a consensual work ethic operating in modern industrial societies. This premise has surprisingly, rarely been put to the test. In this paper, evidence for a modern work ethic is obtained from the European Values Survey. The link between this work ethic and religion is then explored. While one conclusion of …
The Road to Recovery? Some Evidence from Vacancies in One Labour Market
Even during times of high unemployment, one often hears people express the view that there are plenty of jobs available for those who want to work. Indeed, recent government policy rests on the truth of this assumption. After criticising some of the survey evidence purportedly documenting a flourishing vacancy situation nationally, the paper presents a test of the assumption in Chesterfield in the summer of 1988. The assumption is shown to be wan…
A cross-cultural perspective on the social and psychological distress caused by unemployment: A comparison of Spain and the United Kingdom
This paper compares the unemployment problem in Britain and in Spain. The risk of unemployment is greater in Spain and the social security system to support the unemployed less comprehensive than in the UK. The unemployed in both countries suffer lower psychological wellbeing than the employed in the same country, but there are surprising differences when comparisons are made between the British and Spanish unemployed. Attempts to fit the results…
British Social Attitudes: The 5th Report
Handling Work History Data in Standard Statistical Packages
Research Policy and Review 23. The View of Academic Social Scientists on the 1991 UK Census of Population: A Report of the Economic and Social Research Council Working Group
This is a report on the survey conducted for the United Kingdom Census Office by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) concerning the 1991 census. "The primary task was to solicit views on the priority which [academic social scientists] attached to the proposed topics to be covered by the Census and to ascertain their views on the changes in question wording which are under consideration.... Views were also sought on different methods f…
Predictions of Voting Behaviour from a Pre-Election Survey
Back on the Bandwagon: The Effect of Opinion Polls on Public Opinion
The bandwagon was the caravan in a circus that carried the band, and usually took the lead in a procession. It has come to stand as a symbol for a party or a cause which is successful; we talk of people wanting to climb on to a bandwagon when their desire to be associated with the winning party or cause is strong. A ‘bandwagon effect’ is the label given by social scientists to a situation where the information about majority opinion itself causes…
Do Sentences Affect Public Disapproval
THE belief of some judges that in sentencing “the main duty of the courts is to lead public opinion” (R. v. Sargeant) implies that the choice of sentence influences public approval or disapproval of law-breaking. To test this, 1,055 parents in three English towns were interviewed. Since it is only through the news media that the public can be influenced by sentence, their recollections of reports of criminal trials were tested. Only 39 per cent. …
The Survey Method: The Contribution of Surveys to Sociological Explanation
The Assessment of Skills in Research Methods
In scrutinizing the effectiveness of the teaching of research methods, it is important to devote some time to considering how the skills are assessed. The three hour unseen examination is particularly unsuitable to assessment in this area; it constrains teaching in a detrimental fashion and assesses fluent ability to talk about how research is or should be done rather than the competence of any individual to do it. Evidence is adduced from recent…
Historians and the computer 1
Improving Ins and Questionnaire Design: Res Threatening Questions in Survey research
Problems with Surveys: Method or Epistemology
It may seem untimely to start worrying about the philosphical basis of survey research at a time when the main difficulty facing any of us is most probably getting cash to do the research at all. However, perhaps for that very reason, arguments, which are declaring that survey research is after all perhaps not on a very sound epistemological footing are gaining currency; I was forced to reflect hard on the process of decision-making in large-scal…
The Analysis of Survey Data
Back on the Bandwagon: The Effect of Opinion Polls on Public Opinion
The bandwagon was the caravan in a circus that carried the band, and usually took the lead in a procession. It has come to stand as a symbol for a party or a cause which is successful; we talk of people wanting to climb on to a bandwagon when their desire to be associated with the winning party or cause is strong. A ‘bandwagon effect’ is the label given by social scientists to a situation where the information about majority opinion itself causes…
The protestant work ethic as a cultural phenomenon
A central contention of much of the literature about the nature of work values and the meaning of work is that there is (or at least has been) a consensual work ethic operating in modern industrial societies. This premise has surprisingly, rarely been put to the test. In this paper, evidence for a modern work ethic is obtained from the European Values Survey. The link between this work ethic and religion is then explored. While one conclusion of …
British Social Attitudes: The 5th Report
Education and Social Class: Revisiting the 1944 Education Act with Fixed Marginals
Trends in class inequality in attendance at selective schools are hard to interpret, since the number of places at these schools and the distribution of children by class also change over time. Reanalysing data from the Nuffield Mobility Study, it is shown that interpretation of the trends depends on which measure of association is used. By viewing stratification as a continuous hierarchy which is then sliced up into « classes » of differing size…
Predictions of Voting Behaviour from a Pre-Election Survey
Problems with Surveys: Method or Epistemology
It may seem untimely to start worrying about the philosphical basis of survey research at a time when the main difficulty facing any of us is most probably getting cash to do the research at all. However, perhaps for that very reason, arguments, which are declaring that survey research is after all perhaps not on a very sound epistemological footing are gaining currency; I was forced to reflect hard on the process of decision-making in large-scal…
A cross-cultural perspective on the social and psychological distress caused by unemployment: A comparison of Spain and the United Kingdom
This paper compares the unemployment problem in Britain and in Spain. The risk of unemployment is greater in Spain and the social security system to support the unemployed less comprehensive than in the UK. The unemployed in both countries suffer lower psychological wellbeing than the employed in the same country, but there are surprising differences when comparisons are made between the British and Spanish unemployed. Attempts to fit the results…
The Road to Recovery? Some Evidence from Vacancies in One Labour Market
Even during times of high unemployment, one often hears people express the view that there are plenty of jobs available for those who want to work. Indeed, recent government policy rests on the truth of this assumption. After criticising some of the survey evidence purportedly documenting a flourishing vacancy situation nationally, the paper presents a test of the assumption in Chesterfield in the summer of 1988. The assumption is shown to be wan…
Cultural Mediation of Political Responses to Unemployment: A Comparison of Spain and the Uk
Should the unemployed be viewed as an underclass at the bottom of the stratification heap in modern societies? In the 1930s, the answer given by social scientists was unambiguously negative. The unemployed could not be considered as a social class; they were “a mass numerically not socially” who showed no group or class consciousness (Zawadsky and Lazarsfeld, 1935, p.2). The people who were unemployed at any one point in time, the argument ran, w…
Consumption and Class: Divisions and Change
Handling Work History Data in Standard Statistical Packages
The Assessment of Skills in Research Methods
In scrutinizing the effectiveness of the teaching of research methods, it is important to devote some time to considering how the skills are assessed. The three hour unseen examination is particularly unsuitable to assessment in this area; it constrains teaching in a detrimental fashion and assesses fluent ability to talk about how research is or should be done rather than the competence of any individual to do it. Evidence is adduced from recent…
The Analysis of Survey Data
Problems with Surveys: Method or Epistemology
It may seem untimely to start worrying about the philosphical basis of survey research at a time when the main difficulty facing any of us is most probably getting cash to do the research at all. However, perhaps for that very reason, arguments, which are declaring that survey research is after all perhaps not on a very sound epistemological footing are gaining currency; I was forced to reflect hard on the process of decision-making in large-scal…
Historians and the computer 1
Improving Ins and Questionnaire Design: Res Threatening Questions in Survey research
The Assessment of Skills in Research Methods
In scrutinizing the effectiveness of the teaching of research methods, it is important to devote some time to considering how the skills are assessed. The three hour unseen examination is particularly unsuitable to assessment in this area; it constrains teaching in a detrimental fashion and assesses fluent ability to talk about how research is or should be done rather than the competence of any individual to do it. Evidence is adduced from recent…
The Survey Method: The Contribution of Surveys to Sociological Explanation
Do Sentences Affect Public Disapproval
THE belief of some judges that in sentencing “the main duty of the courts is to lead public opinion” (R. v. Sargeant) implies that the choice of sentence influences public approval or disapproval of law-breaking. To test this, 1,055 parents in three English towns were interviewed. Since it is only through the news media that the public can be influenced by sentence, their recollections of reports of criminal trials were tested. Only 39 per cent. …
Predictions of Voting Behaviour from a Pre-Election Survey
Back on the Bandwagon: The Effect of Opinion Polls on Public Opinion
The bandwagon was the caravan in a circus that carried the band, and usually took the lead in a procession. It has come to stand as a symbol for a party or a cause which is successful; we talk of people wanting to climb on to a bandwagon when their desire to be associated with the winning party or cause is strong. A ‘bandwagon effect’ is the label given by social scientists to a situation where the information about majority opinion itself causes…
Research Policy and Review 23. The View of Academic Social Scientists on the 1991 UK Census of Population: A Report of the Economic and Social Research Council Working Group
This is a report on the survey conducted for the United Kingdom Census Office by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) concerning the 1991 census. "The primary task was to solicit views on the priority which [academic social scientists] attached to the proposed topics to be covered by the Census and to ascertain their views on the changes in question wording which are under consideration.... Views were also sought on different methods f…
British Social Attitudes: The 5th Report
Handling Work History Data in Standard Statistical Packages
The protestant work ethic as a cultural phenomenon
A central contention of much of the literature about the nature of work values and the meaning of work is that there is (or at least has been) a consensual work ethic operating in modern industrial societies. This premise has surprisingly, rarely been put to the test. In this paper, evidence for a modern work ethic is obtained from the European Values Survey. The link between this work ethic and religion is then explored. While one conclusion of …
The Road to Recovery? Some Evidence from Vacancies in One Labour Market
Even during times of high unemployment, one often hears people express the view that there are plenty of jobs available for those who want to work. Indeed, recent government policy rests on the truth of this assumption. After criticising some of the survey evidence purportedly documenting a flourishing vacancy situation nationally, the paper presents a test of the assumption in Chesterfield in the summer of 1988. The assumption is shown to be wan…
A cross-cultural perspective on the social and psychological distress caused by unemployment: A comparison of Spain and the United Kingdom
This paper compares the unemployment problem in Britain and in Spain. The risk of unemployment is greater in Spain and the social security system to support the unemployed less comprehensive than in the UK. The unemployed in both countries suffer lower psychological wellbeing than the employed in the same country, but there are surprising differences when comparisons are made between the British and Spanish unemployed. Attempts to fit the results…
Education and Social Class: Revisiting the 1944 Education Act with Fixed Marginals
Trends in class inequality in attendance at selective schools are hard to interpret, since the number of places at these schools and the distribution of children by class also change over time. Reanalysing data from the Nuffield Mobility Study, it is shown that interpretation of the trends depends on which measure of association is used. By viewing stratification as a continuous hierarchy which is then sliced up into « classes » of differing size…
Consumption and Class: Divisions and Change
Cultural Mediation of Political Responses to Unemployment: A Comparison of Spain and the Uk
Should the unemployed be viewed as an underclass at the bottom of the stratification heap in modern societies? In the 1930s, the answer given by social scientists was unambiguously negative. The unemployed could not be considered as a social class; they were “a mass numerically not socially” who showed no group or class consciousness (Zawadsky and Lazarsfeld, 1935, p.2). The people who were unemployed at any one point in time, the argument ran, w…
Families and Households: Divisions and Change
Consumption and Class, Divisions and Change
List of Tables and Figures - Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Consumption, Class and Contemporary Sociology R.Burrows & C.Marsh - Notes on the Relationship Between Production and Consumption A.Warde - Constructing Consumers and Consumer Protection: The Case of the Life Insurance Industry in the United Kingdom G.Morgan & D.Knights - Social Class, Consumption Divisions and Housing Mobility M.Savage, P.Watt & S.Arber - Medicine and Markets: Pow…
Consumption and Class: Divisions and Change
Social Change and the Experience of Unemployment
The experience of convergence - a tale of six cities, Catherine Marsh, Carolyn Vogler unemployment in work histories, Jonathan Gershuny, Catherine Marsh unemployment and attitudes to work, Duncan Gallie, Carolyn Vogler the relationship between a husband's unemployment and his wife's participation in the labour force, Richard Davies, Peter Elias, et al the effects of labour market position, job insecurity, and unemployment on psychological health,…
Social Change and the Experience of Unemployment
The single most important change in the British labour market over the last two decades has been the re-emergence of mass unemployment. This study focuses on six areas: Aberdeen, Kirkcaldy, Rochdale, Coventry, Northampton, and Swindon, and investigates the effect of being unemployed on individuals' attitudes to work, their social relationships, and their psychological health. It breaks entirely new ground, using large-scale surveys that allow dir…
Sociology (19 works) · Economics (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social science (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Demographic economics (5 works)