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- Title
THE STRUCTURE OF OCCUPATIONAL INEQUALITY .
- Authors
Bielby, William T.; Kalleberg, Arne L.
- Abstract
The article comments on occupational inequality. Inequalities associated with a system of social stratification result from two related but analytically distinguishable social processes, differential rewards associated with different positions in the social system, and the process of allocation of individuals to those positions. The former process concerns positional inequality, the latter process concerns the movements of individuals among positions. Nearly all existing research at the positional level of analysis examines attributes of the relationships among occupations. Theoretically, they are the building blocks for most non-Marxist conceptualizations of social structure in industrial societies. In authors account of the structure of occupational inequality, occupations are positions in the technical division of labor. Specifically, an occupation is an aggregation of jobs in which similar tasks are performed and which have similar technical requirements. Occupations also carry differential access to various resources they can bring to bear in the workplace and in the market, consequently, while they are defined in terms of technical relations, occupations are invariably embedded in social relations. Finally, occupations are differentially rewarded.
- Subjects
EQUALITY; OCCUPATIONS; SOCIAL stratification; DEVELOPED countries; DIVISION of labor; WORK environment
- Publication
Quality & Quantity, 1981, Vol 15, Issue 2, p125
- ISSN
0033-5177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00144257