The Generalizability of Prestige Ratings in Cross-cultural Perspective: Theoretical and Methodological Comments

Wilbert E. Moore , The Impact of Industry, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1965, pp. 14-19.

Paul W. van der Veur , "Occupational Prestige Among Secondary School Students in West New Guinea (West Irian)", Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 1966, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 107-10.

A.L. Epstein , "Occupational Prestige on the Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain", Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 1967, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 111-21.

van der Veur , op. cit., p. 109.

For some examples see Cecil C. North and Paul K. Hatt , "Jobs and Occupations: A Popular Evaluation", Opinion News, 1947, Vol. 9, pp. 3-13;

Peter C. Pineo and John Porter , "Occupational Prestige in Canada", Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 1967, Vol. 4, pp. 24-40;

Bernard R. Blishen , "A Socio-Economic Index for Occupations in Canada", ibid., pp. 41-53;

Alex Inkeles and Peter H. Rossi , "National Comparisons of Occupational Prestige" , American Journal of Sociology, 1956, Vol. 61, pp. 329-39.

Archibald O. Haller and David M. Lewis , "The Hypothesis of Intersocietal Similarity in Occupational Prestige Hierarchies", American Journal of Sociology, 1966, Vol. 72, pp. 210-16, 211.

van der Veur , op. cit., p. 109.

"Dimensions of Situs and Functional Stratification Theory" , in E.E. Harris , Empirical Essays in Functional Stratification Theory (forthcoming).

Epstein , op. cit., pp. 111-21, 120.

Ibid., pp. 117-18.

Albert J. Reiss, Jr. , Occupations and Social Status , New York, Free Press, 1961, pp. 172-6.

Epstein , op. cit., pp. 118-19.

Ibid., p. 117.

A correlation of .90 to 1.00, very high; .70 to .89, high; .40 to .69, moderate; .20 to .39, low; .20 or less, slight. See J.P. Guilford , Fundamental Statistics in Psychology and Education, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1950, p. 165.

Epstein , op. cit., p. 118.

Guilford , op. cit.

Epstein , op. cit., p. 118.

Reiss , op. cit., p. 88.

Epstein , op. cit.

Harris , "The Generalizability of Prestige and Related Ratings: Some Empirical Findings" , op. cit.

Reiss , op. cit., ch. 2.

Inkeles and Rossi , op. cit.

Lionel S. Lewis and Joseph Lopreato , "Functional Importance and Prestige of Occupations", Pacific Sociological Review , 1963, Vol. 6, pp. 55-9.

E. Murray Thomas , "Reinspecting A Structural Position on Occupational Prestige", American Journal of Sociology , 1962, Vol. 67, pp. 561-5.

Edward E. Harris , "National Occupational Prestige: Structural or Cultural?" (unpublished paper).