The Micro-Level Structure of Social Classes

社会阶层的微观结构

• 批准号: 9906419
• 负责人: David Grusky
• 金额: $ 32.17万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-10-01 至 2004-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9906419&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Micro; Level; Structure; Social; Classes

The purpose of this project is to develop and test models of social stratification that capitalize on the actual occupations that emerge around functional niches in the division of labor. To do so, the project will employ large-scale surveys from the United States and other countries. The trend in recent theoretical approaches has been to dismiss these phenomena as sociologically trivial. However, doing so ignores evidence that important social class processes occur principally at the subclass level. One virtue of disaggregating to this level is that the nominal categories of aggregate class analysis can be replaced by groupings which are meaningful not merely to sociologists but to the lay public as well. Disaggregation should yield new evidence on such basic issues as (a) the fluidity of modern mobility regimes, (b) the structure of recent trends in inheritance, persistence, and inter-occupational mobility, (c) the macro-level causes that generate immobility, and (d) the viability of convergence models in characterizing cross-national patterns of stratification. The proof of our approach thus rests on the additional explanatory power that accrues from referencing the real institutional processes by which classes are formed, mobility is constrained, and lifestyles are defined.

这个项目的目的是开发和测试社会分层模型，这些模型利用了劳动分工中围绕功能性利基出现的实际职业。为此，该项目将利用美国和其他国家的大规模调查。最近的理论方法的趋势是将这些现象视为社会学上的微不足道。然而，这样做忽略了重要的社会阶级过程主要发生在子类层面的证据。分解到这个层次的一个好处是，集合类分析的名义类别可以被分组所取代，这些分组不仅对社会学家有意义，而且对普通公众也有意义。分类应就以下基本问题提供新的证据：（a）现代流动制度的流动性;（B）继承、持续和职业间流动性方面的最新趋势的结构;（c）造成不流动的宏观原因;（d）趋同模式在描述跨国分层模式方面的可行性。因此，我们的方法的证明依赖于额外的解释力，这种解释力来自于引用真实的制度过程，通过这些制度过程，阶级得以形成，流动性受到限制，生活方式得以定义。