Occupational Cognition in Three Nations
J Raul Magana, Michael Burton, Joao Ferreira-Pinto
Abstract
Similarities and rank order judgements of occupations were obtained from urban informants from Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States. We found evidence for a replicable two-dimensional structure to the similarities judgements. The first dimension corresponds closely with the sociological construct, prestige. The second dimension contrasts bureaucracy and power with freedom, skill, and healing. Rank order vectors on power, income, prestige, education, skill, and freedom have very similar relationships with the similarities structure, across the three national samples. We use consensus estimates to show that prestige is not more important to evaluating occupations than knowledge, income, or power.
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