Social Inequalities and Occupational Stratification: Methods and Concepts in the Analysis of Social Distance - Hardcover

Lambert, Paul; Griffiths, Dave

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137022523 ISBN 13: 9781137022523

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

This book explores how structures of social inequality are linked to the social connections that people hold. The authors focus upon occupational inequalities where they see, for example, that the typical friendship patterns of people from one occupation are often very different to those of people from another.

Social Inequalities and Occupational Stratification leverages empirical data about differences in social connections to chart structures of social distance and social inequality. Several of its chapters provide coverage of the long-standing Cambridge Social Interaction and Stratification scale (CAMSIS) project and its approach to analysing social interaction patterns in terms of a single dimension related to social inequality. 

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About the Author

Paul Lambert is a Professor at the University of Stirling, UK. He has worked since 1999 as part of the CAMSIS project on occupations and social interactions. 

Dave Griffiths is a Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at the University of Stirling, UK, where he teaches on social networks, social inequalities, and on advanced social research methods. 

From the Back Cover

This book explores how structures of social inequality are linked to the social connections that people hold. The authors focus upon occupational inequalities where they see, for example, that the typical friendship patterns of people from one occupation are often very different to those of people from another.

Social Inequalities and Occupational Stratification leverages empirical data about differences in social connections to chart structures of social distance and social inequality. Several of its chapters provide coverage of the long-standing CAMSIS project and its approach to analysing social interaction patterns in terms of a single dimension related to social inequality. Lambert and Griffiths also explore different ways that statistical methods and tools of social network analysis can be used to study the relationship between social distance and social stratification. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1137022523
• ISBN 13: 9781137022523
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 397