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- Title
PROBLEMS IN THE SELECTION OF OCCUPATIONAL TITLES.
- Authors
Coxon, A. P. M.; Jones, C. L.
- Abstract
This paper is concerned with the ways in which sociologists select the occupational titles which they desire to scale, according to the meanings people give them. Studies of the perception, cognition and evaluation of occupational titles have often taken considerable pains over `the sampling of persons who are requested to judge the set of stimuli under investigation. Sociologists who have tried to investigate the social meanings of occupational titles, have worked with lists of pre-specified titles. Again, there has been a tendency to shorten occupational titles and to make them less specific, in the course of inheriting them from other workers. Most have tried to retain some degree of comparability with the work of their colleagues by deliberately "inheriting" certain of their occupational titles. The choice of occupational titles for a scaling study is severely limited by the number that can be handled by the respondents chosen for the investigation. This in turn is determined by the scaling method used and whether each respondent is to be asked to make all the judgements, which are required by the scaling method, or only a subset of them.
- Subjects
SOCIAL scientists; SOCIAL theory; SOCIOLOGISTS; OCCUPATIONS; CAREER development; SCALING (Social sciences)
- Publication
Sociological Review, 1974, Vol 22, Issue 3, p369
- ISSN
0038-0261
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-954X.1974.tb00259.x