scholarly journals What we think when we speak about stratification

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Barone ◽  
Forian R. Hertel ◽  
Oscar Smallenbroek
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Official Publication ◽  
Occupational Measures ◽  
The Way

How we measure social position is vital to our ability to account for different aspects – imagined or real – of the stratification order. This research note surveys applied research and quantifies differences in the way researchers study stratification. It analyses all research articles published from 2015-2019 in the five most-cited sociological journals and ISA RC28's official publication. We focus on empirical articles with a substantive focus on occupation-based stratification. Empirically, we observe a dominance of income as a measure for social position. Social class is a close second trailed by status, prestige, and desegregated occupational measures. Among social class measures, researchers prefer EGP-like schemas and apply them as a paradigmatic "one-size-fits-all" measure in diverse fields of application.

scholarly journals Naming oneself in the social mirror: A vignette-based survey

2020 ◽  
pp. 001139212093295
Author(s):  
Oscar MacClure ◽  
Emmanuelle Barozet ◽  
Ana María Valenzuela
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Class Identity ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

In order to understand the way in which people self-identify in society and as a contribution to debates about class identity in Latin America, in this article the authors assess how individuals categorize themselves and others socially, and discuss whether a significant portion of the population classifies itself as middle class. They address the question of whether or not individuals’ representation of their social position is linked to social class, examining whether that position incorporates a socio-economic dimension, a hierarchical dimension, or even an element of moral value. The authors focus on how individuals name their own social position by means of a vignette-based survey applied in 2016 to a randomized sample of 2000 people in Chile. The results show that the theoretical notion of class is still of relevance to subjective positioning criteria, and that such criteria are specific to individuals who self-identify with lower or higher social positions.

scholarly journals Applied Research Note: Does feeding hulless barley affects Salmonella colonization in broiler chickens?

2021 ◽  
pp. 100178
Author(s):  
Namalika. D. Karunaratne ◽  
Rex. W. Newkirk ◽  
Andrew. G. Van Kessel ◽  
Wolfgang Köster ◽  
Henry. L. Classen
Keyword(s):  
Broiler Chickens ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Hulless Barley

Social Class, Consumption and the Influence of Bourdieu: Some Critical Issues

1997 ◽  
Vol 44 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 274-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Longhurst ◽  
Mike Savage
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Way

Bourdieu's work has been an important point of departure for recent analyses of the relationship between social class and consumption practices. This chapter takes stock of Bourdieu's influence and explores some problems which have become apparent—often in spite of Bourdieu's own hopes and general views. We point to the way that Bourdieu's influence has led to an approach to consumption which focuses on the consumption practices of specific occupational classes and on examining variations in consumption practice between such occupational groups. We argue that it this approach has a series of problems and suggest the need to broaden analyses of consumption to consider issues of ‘everyday life’, sociation, and social networks.

How Many Classes Are There?

Uneven Odds ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 96-120
Author(s):  
Divya Vaid
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Intergenerational Change ◽  
Definition Of

To examine the elements of social mobility, especially the intergenerational change in social position, requires the establishment of an appropriate schema that captures social class position across generations. This chapter summarizes the major debates surrounding the definition of social class, with a specific focus on class in the Indian context. So far there is little consistent effort to map the possible classes in Indian society. This chapter discusses the conceptualisation of class and its operationalisation in terms of a class schema. The focus is on a possible ‘objective’ measure of class in the Indian context.

The Bumpy Road of Nonprofit Creation: An Examination of Start-Up Problems Encountered by Nonprofit Entrepreneurs

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrik O. Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Regulatory Problems ◽  
The Way

New nonprofit organizations are formed through a multifaceted process, and along the way, founding nonprofit entrepreneurs are likely to encounter various problems. This research note examines the extent to which 77 nascent nonprofit entrepreneurs encountered start-up problems during the earliest phase of the formation process, what types of problems they encountered, and how these problems impacted their attempt to start up a new nonprofit. The results indicate successful and unsuccessful nascent nonprofit entrepreneurs do not differ in terms of how many start-up problems they encountered. However, the type of the problems encountered had an effect on start-up success; two had negative effects (financial and information problems), and one had positive effects (regulatory problems). Ultimately, many attempts to found a new nonprofit are unsuccessful, indicating a need for researchers and those advising nascent nonprofit entrepreneurs to learn more about start-up problems and how to handle them.

The Lifeworld of the University Student: Habitus and Social Class

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serena Bufton
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
University Students ◽  
Economically Disadvantaged ◽  
University Student ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Phenomenological Psychology ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

AbstractPhenomenological psychology has typically avoided the "importation" of such concepts as social class from sociology.Within the epoche, such terminology is bracketed on the grounds that it brings with it excess theoretical baggage and threatens the return to experience in itself. Yet, in uncovering the lifeworld of university students who—in what in Britain is still predominantly a preserve of the privileged—come from relatively economically disadvantaged homes, "class" or some cognate concept is found to be necessary to capture the range of modes of alienation and disjunction experienced. Following Casey's discussion of the way in which Bourdieu's notion of habitus relates to Merleau-Ponty's description of the interpenetration of the natural and the cultural in the lived body, social class is shown to bring together students' accounts of their multi-faceted sense that "University is not for the likes of us"—encompassing issues of identity, sociality, and spatio-temporal dislocation.

scholarly journals The impact on authors and editors of introducing Data Availability Statements at Nature journals

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Grant ◽  
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Data Availability ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Digital Curation ◽  
Subsequent Research ◽  
Time Required ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis paper describes the adoption of a standard policy for the inclusion of data availability statements in all research articles published at the Nature family of journals, and the subsequent research which assessed the impacts that these policies had on authors, editors, and the availability of datasets. The key findings of this research project include the determination of average and median times required to add a data availability statement to an article; and a correlation between the way researchers make their data available, and the time required to add a data availability statement. This paper will be presented at the International Digital Curation Conference 2018, and has been submitted to the International Journal of Digital curation.

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