Sökning: "occupational prestige"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden occupational prestige.

  1. 1. Yrke, Status och Genus: En sociologisk studie om yrken på en segregerad arbetsmarknad : Occupation, Status & Gender - A sociological study of occupations on a segregated labour market

    Författare :Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Occupation; status; prestige; prestige hierarchy; gender; social dass; income; education; symbolic capital; doxa;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of occupational prestige/ status with the purpose of describing and interpreting perceptions of occupational prestige. The analytical focus is the relationship between occupational prestige and gender. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Mind the Gap : Essays on Explanations of Gender Wage Inequality

    Författare :Charlotta Magnusson; Michael Tåhlin; Charlotta Stern; Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Gender wage gap; labour market; occupational prestige; devaluation theory; work-family balance; Sweden; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : The gender wage gap is accounted for to a substantial degree by the sex composition of occupations. The present thesis examines the mechanisms that produce this pattern. In particular, the theory of devaluation, currently the most widely accepted sociological explanation, is tested. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Facets of Gender : Analyses of the Family and the Labour Market

    Författare :Marie Evertsson; Jan O. Jonsson; Paula England; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Gender; housework; household work; gender equality; gender attitudes; dependence; labour market; children; family; on-the-job training; divorce; promotion; occupational change; division of work; Sociology; Sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis contains four different studies on the dynamics of gender in households and workplaces. The relationship between family life and work life is in focus, particularly in the paper on labour market outcomes after divorce.In the introductory chapter, the Swedish context is briefly described. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Social status : a state of mind?

    Författare :Johanna Lundberg; Margareta Kristenson; Jon Ivar Elstad; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Health and medical services in society; Hälso- och sjukvård i samhället;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with social stratification of psychosocial factors and social position measurement in population samples collected in mid-Sweden 2000-2006. Traditional resource-based measures of social position (occupation, education) and so far less explored prestige-based measures (subjective status, status incongruence) are tested with respect to their associations with psychosocial factors, emotions, and selfrated health. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Career outcomes in the Swedish labor market : three contextual studies

    Författare :Magnus Bygren; David Grusky; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Career development; Labour market; Sweden; Karriär; Arbetsmarknad; Sverige; 1990-talet;

    Sammanfattning : Paper I:Being Different in the Workplace: Job Mobility into other Workplaces and Shifts into Unemployment. This study evaluates contradictory theoretical predictions about the consequences of belonging to a minority in a workplace context. LÄS MER