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Occupational prestige : a scale of occupational prestige in New Zealand

1976
This thesis is in the area of prestige and in particular occupational prestige in New Zealand. The literature review covers the concept of prestige and its meaning in sociology, the position of the concept of prestige and in particular occupational prestige in socioiogical theory, the major empirical studies of occupational prestige and their findings,
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The occupational prestige of accountants

Danubius Noster
Accountancy is one of the oldest professions in the accounting profession, found in almost every culture, surviving countless periods of history and economic and social change. People who performed accounting and bookkeeping tasks are mentioned in history books, such as the Pharaoh's scribe Luca Paccioli, a Franciscan monk who is also considered the ...
Eleonóra Budai, Ervin Denich, Andor Pajrok   +2 more
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Occupational Prestige as a Function of Occupant's Gender

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1989
To examine sex bias in occupational prestige, 250 male and 250 female undergraduate and graduate students in Bombay were asked to rate the respectability of 16 occupations, each with male and female occupants (e.g., a male scientist, a female scientists, etc.).
Suresh Kanekar, Maharukh B. Kolsawalla, Terence Nazareth   +2 more
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Agreement of Occupational Prestige as Ranked by Two Empirical Occupational Prestige Scales

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1959
(1959). Agreement of Occupational Prestige as Ranked by Two Empirical Occupational Prestige Scales. The Journal of Social Psychology: Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 335-340.
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Occupational Prestige: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1968
In many national and international studies it could be shown that the rank orders of prestige of comparable occupations remained the same even with different sampling methods (Inkeles & Rossi, 1956). Occasionally, the attempt has been made to trace the occupational prestige back to more special aspects of the evaluated occupations (Rossi & Inkeles ...
K, Kuhweide, H E, Lueck, E, Timaeus
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Chinese Occupational Prestige

International Sociology, 1996
Prestige ratings of 46 occupations from a 1988 sample of adult residents in Tianjin, a large industrial city of China, are reported and analyzed in this paper. Tianjin's prestige ratings are similar in overall pattern to rating scales from Beijing, Taiwan and the US and to Treiman's Standard International Occupational Prestige.
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Occupational Sex-Typing and Occupational Prestige

Youth & Society, 1998
The study examines the impact of occupational prestige (high, medium, and low) on sex-typing of occupations in Israel based on gender and age group (adolescents, university students, and teachers). No differences in sex-typing of high-prestige occupations were found across age groups.
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Occupational Prestige in Urban China

American Journal of Sociology, 1988
The paper reports ratings of occupational prestige by urban residents in Beijing, China. Using a representative sample (N = 1,632) of adults aged 20-64 and a selected group of 50 occupations, we found that their rankings are remarkably consistent with those found in other countries. Within the general patterns of rankings, however, specific differences
Nan Lin, Wen Xie
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Intersociety and Intrasociety Correlations of Occupational Prestige

American Journal of Sociology, 1968
The possibility that recent evidence of international similarity in occupational prestige may be a spurious result of oversampling of students and other "modern" respondents in non-industrialized society studies is discussed and examined with survey data from Hausaland, a traditional, non-industrial society in northern Nigeria.
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Sex-Typing and Prestige Ratings of Occupations as Indices of Occupational Stereotypes

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2003
In the present study, an ethnically diverse convenience sample ( N = 295; 56% female) of working adults (47%) and college students (age M = 23.7, SD = 6.7) rated a list of 25 occupations on a 9-point sex-typing scale, with anchors of 1: mostly associated with men and 9: mostly associated with women.
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