Prestige Scores for all Occupations: Replication and Extension

这项研究的目标是制定、评估和传播 职业声望的测量，复制声望分数 在1960年代的美国职业中产生的。 的 当时制定的比额表被广泛使用，但已过时。 的 拟议的研究将包括（1）正式复制-选定 改进-最初的1960年声望研究，但更多 职业，更多的受访者，和标题产生的，并从 1980年人口普查分类制度，（2）开始一些初步的 调查职业声望的长期趋势。 这些 目标将通过增加一套补充的 正在进行的全国调查的代表性样本的问题， 成人，一般社会调查。 我们的目标是建立一种威望 一个改进和最新的指数，反映当前公众 关于职业排名的共识。 "声望"是一个理论概念， 内部和外部的向上（和向下）社会流动 代 重新调整声望等级的理由在于 （a）鉴于一九八○年的急剧转变， （B）与以前版本相比的普查分类系统; 为许多新的标题生成估计， （c）对稳定问题的实质性兴趣， 美国价值观的一个核心特征， 系统 这个项目将产生一个有价值的声望指数， 整个社会科学界。

The objectives of this study are to develop, assess and disseminate measures of occupational prestige, replicating the prestige scores generated for occupations in the United States in the 1960s. The scales developed at that time are widely used but out of date. The proposed study will include (1) formal replication -- with selected improvements -- of the original 1960 prestige study, but with more occupations, more respondents, and titles generated for and from the 1980 Census classification system, and (2) begin some preliminary investigations of trends in occupational prestige over time. These objectives will be accomplished by adding a supplementary set of questions to an on-going national survey of a representative sample of adults, the General Social Survey. The goal is to develop a prestige index that is both improved and up-to-date, reflecting current public consensus as to the ranking of occupations. "Prestige" is a theoretical concept that has generated studies of upward (and downward) social mobility both within and across generations. The rationale for recalibrating the prestige scales rests on (a) the need for new estimates, given the dramatic changes in 1980 Census classification system relative to prior versions; (b) the need to generate estimates for many new titles, not in existence in the 1960s; and (c) substantive interest in the question of stability and change in prestige evaluations, a core feature of the American value system. This project will produce a valuable prestige index for use by the social science community at large.