Social Grading of Occupations in New Zealand
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5633237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A A Congalton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1953 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45 |
| Publication date | 1953-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/587166 |
| OpenAlex | W2327497397 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
rEW ZEALAND, a country with a population of nearly two million people, is predominately British in terms of the country of origin of a L SI its inhabitants or their forebears. Every census return since I86I shows the presence of only a small section of foreign-born inhabitants, ranging from a minimum of ITO4 per cent of the population (in, I945) to a maximum of 4570 per cent (in I874). Also included in the total figure of I,939,472 1 iS an indigenous population of II5,676 Maoris. Research into the nature of social class differences, class structure and social mobility in New Zealand has been almost non-existent. Empirical studies of New Zealand society have been restricted to sociological studies of small areas, and apart from treatises mainly historical in their emphasis the only direct approach to the examination of class structure has been an investigation into social class attitudes among a selected group of adolescents.2 At the time of the present investigation the writer was engaged in a survey of the social class structure of a New Zealand rural town, and advantage was taken of this fact to make a detailed study of one aspect of social class membership, viz. occupational status. The purpose of this investigation was twofold: first, to make a preliminary examination of the social grading of occupations in New Zealand; second, to compare the grading with that of similar occupations in England. As a report 3 had just been published showing the results of an investigation into the social grading of thirty specific occupations in England, it was decided that it would be of considerable lralue to employ the same list and a similar methodological approach with a New Zealand population sample. A preliminary trial run with the occupations listed showed that some of the descriptilre terms employed in the English survey were not meaningful to New Zealanders. For example, a Medical Officer of Health was found to
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1959 - 2022 (64) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |