Work, Status, and Income
Men in the American Occupational Structure since the Late Nineteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22872948 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Sobek (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-207 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-5532 • E-ISSN: 1527-8034 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0145553200021593 |
| OpenAlex | W2586089010 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 51 |
The historical record rarely presents researchers with precisely the evidence they desire. This is particularly true for social historians and like-minded scholars, whose subjects left precious few signs of their passing. Consequently, certain data have borne a disproportionate evidentiary load in social-historical research. The occupation a person pursued is one key piece of information on which scholars have come to depend. Our understanding of the historical social structure and where people fit into it is bound up with the interpretation of occupations. But this reliance on occupation as the primary social locator in historical research depends on some largely unexamined premises. Whether scholars group occupations or convert them into numerical status measures, they make assumptions about the nature of the occupational structure. When researchers incorporate change over time into their analyses, they suggest that the meaning of occupations remained stable for the purpose of measuring social mobility, class position, or group status-attainment. This assumption has been the subject of little discussion and even less research. For all the use to which historians have put occupation, there has been little effort to assess systematically its stability as a social or economic indicator.
Economics · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Meaning (existential) · Political science · Position (finance) · Positive economics · Social class · Social mobility · Social position · Social relation · Social science · Social status · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Work (physics) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,34 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2025 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |