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Women's social standing : the empirical problem of female social class
- Title
- Women's social standing : the empirical problem of female social class / Roy A. Carr-Hill and Colin W. Pritchard.
- Author
- Carr-Hill, R. A. (Roy A.), 1943-
- Publication
- Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1992.
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- Additional Authors
- Pritchard, Colin.
- Description
- xiii, 140 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- What is social class? Do we all have one? Such questions are usually asked about men. If women are considered at all it is usually as an appendage to one of the men in their lives. It would be astonishing if (female) social scientists did not complain. They do. The ensuing debates are fun but of no use to those who need to analyze data. This book instead focuses on the methodological issue of the appropriate form of a social classification. In Part I, the authors describe the genesis of the Registrar-General's occupationally based classification--and in particular its application to women--arguing that it is not obviously appropriate in the current context. In Part II, they set out the technical criteria which ought to be met by any index, and further argue that a social classification should have a specific domain of reference. On this basis, in Part III, they compare the discrimination provided by the occupationally based classifications with that provided by the women's own height with surprising results. The book concludes with an examination of the implications of the argument for those concerned in collecting and analyzing empirical data and for the theoretical debate about social class.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-136) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Relevance of Debates about Class -- 1.2. Conventional Treatments of Women in the Class Debate -- 1.3. Structure of the Book -- Pt. I. Genesis of the Current Social Classification of Women -- 2. Registrar-General's Social Class Scheme: The Stevenson Version -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Origins of the Social Class Scheme According to Stevenson -- 2.3. Ideological Context of a Social Classification: Szreter -- 2.4. Justifying the Classification -- 2.5. Concluding Remarks -- 3. Registrar-General's Social Class Scheme: The Last Half-Century -- 3.1. Modifications 1931-71 -- 3.2. Classification based on Employment Statistics -- 3.3. Proposed Standard Occupational Classification -- 3.4. Resume: Is Stevenson's Social Class Scheme Relevant Today? -- 4. Women in the Social Class Scheme -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Origins of the Method of Treatment of Women in the Social Class Scheme -- 4.3. Mixed Basis for Assigning Women to a Social Class Classification under the SCS -- 4.4. What if Women Counted? -- 5. Do Women Marry Socially? -- 5.1. Marital Social Class -- 5.2. Wee Laddie Next Door? -- Pt. II. Constructing a Social Classification for Women -- 6. Classification Using HORG and the Alternative -- 6.1. Technical Criteria for an Index -- 6.2. Options -- 6.3. Height, Fertility and Infant Mortality -- 7. Measuring Female Life Chances: The Variables and the Data -- 7.1. What Kind of Outcome Measures are Appropriate? -- 7.2. Measuring the Good Life -- 7.3. Data Available -- 7.4. Variables and Data for Quality of Life Indicators -- 7.5. Empirical Comparison of Discrimination -- 8. Distribution of Female Life Chances -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Contemporary Data on Health -- 8.3. Learning -- 8.4. Material Possessions -- 8.5. Lifestyle -- 8.6. Relating -- 8.7. Prognosis -- 8.8. Historical Data on Health
- ISBN
- 0333389700
- 9780333389706
- 0312068689
- 9780312068684
- OCLC
- ocm27770600
- 27770600
- SCSB-1984061
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library