A Canonical Correlation Analysis of Occupational Mobility Among Mexican Americans
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2276013 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J P Marcum (0000-0002-8826-0952, Southern Illinois University Carbondale), M Tienda (0000-0001-9660-8616, University of Wisconsin–Madison) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 439-449 |
| Publication date | 1978-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1978.tb01187.x |
| OpenAlex | W2025815857 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
Studies of occupational mobility have generally ranked occupations on the basis of their socioeconomic status level or prestige component to measure movement between jobs. Two potential problems may limit the usefulness of that approach for racial and ethnic minority groups: (1) the relationship between occupation and socioeconomic status may not be the same as for the majority group, and (2) minority group members are more likely to be clustered at the low end of both socioeconomic and prestige scales. Canonical correlation analysis requires no prior ranking of occupations, so we use it to investigate intergenerational and career mobility among a sample of Mexican Americans. The findings indicate that mobility among Mexican Americans is about as frequent as among the total population, but that the pattern of movement differs considerably. As a result, the relative status of occupations among Mexican Americans has changed over time and, consequently, socioeconomic status scales developed for the total population do not provide accurate assessments of mobility for Mexican Americans. This discrepancy is less noticeable for career mobility, indicating that among the latest generation of Mexican Americans, mobility patterns are becoming more similar to those in the rest of society
Demographic economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Geography · Mexican americans · Occupational mobility · Occupational prestige · Population · Prestige · Ranking (information retrieval) · Sample (material) · Social mobility · Social science · Social status · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Medicine · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Gerontology
Fortran programming for the behavioral sciences
The social grading of occupations
The Process of Stratification
Socioeconomic background and achievement
The social systems of American ethnic groups
Occupations and social status
White-Nonwhite Differentials in Occupational Mobility among Men in the United States, 1962–1972
The Commission on Population Growth and the American Future
The American occupational structure
A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism
Discrimination and Occupational Wage Differences in the Market for Unskilled Labor
A canonical approach to assessing occupational mobility matrices
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 1982 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |