Defining Prestige Rank in a Rural Community

Kaufman, Harold F.

doi:10.2307/2785239

Cited by 5 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Researchers obtained some of these existing prestige "scales" (and others, e.g. [22,23]) by directly asking participants to rank others by their own internal concept of prestige, left undefined, or by how participants think society in general would or should rank them. These ambiguities in previous indices of prestige leave findings open to theoretically-biased interpretations [24][25][26].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Position-Reputation-Information (PRI) scale of individual prestige

Berl¹,

Samarasinghe²,

Jordan³

et al. 2020

PLoS ONE

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Prestige is a key concept across the social and behavioral sciences and has been implicated as an important driver in the processes governing human learning and behavior and the evolution of culture. However, existing scales of prestige fail to account for the full breadth of its potential determinants or focus only on collective social institutions rather than the individual-level perceptions that underpin everyday social interactions. Here, we use open, extensible methods to unite diverse theoretical ideas into a common measurement tool for individual prestige. Participants evaluated the perceived prestige of regional variations in accented speech using a pool of candidate scale items generated from free-listing tasks and a review of published scales. Through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, we find that our resulting 7-item scale, composed of dimensions we term position, reputation, and information ("PRI"), exhibits good model fit, scale validity, and scale reliability. The PRI scale of individual prestige contributes to the integration of existing lines of theory on the concept of prestige, and the scale's application in Western samples and its extensibility to other cultural contexts serves as a foundation for new theoretical and experimental trajectories across the social and behavioral sciences.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Position-Reputation-Information (PRI) scale of individual prestige

Berl¹,

Samarasinghe²,

Jordan³

et al. 2020

PLoS ONE

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…On the one hand, (a) judges generally disagree about the number of classes present (Hollingshead, 1949;Kaufman, 1945;Lasswell, 1954;Lenski, 1952;Rennie & Hilgendorf, 1960;~leeler. 1949) and (b) no gaps are observable in the distributions of stratification indexes (Hetzler, 1953; Kenkel cited in Cuber & Kenkel, 1954).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Dimensions of Social Stratification for Whites and Blacks: The Toledo Study

Stricker

1976

ETS Research Bulletin Series

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The aims of this study were (a) to determine the major dimensions of social stratification for whites as well as blacks and (b) to explore the existence of distinct social classes. A survey was conducted with 225 white and 206 black household heads in Toledo, Ohio, using a highly structured interview that included variables reflecting major theoretical dimensions of stratification, important indexes, and well established correlates. Eighteen first‐order factors were found for whites and 19 for blacks. Five factors matched in the two samples: social status, residence, organization activity, political activity and efficacy, and main support's social status. Other important factors, unique to each sample, were: for whites, self‐employed and majority group membership, and for blacks, class consciousness and method variance. The indexes, except for Own Education, did not consistently load the factors that they presumably tap. Second‐ and third‐order factors were also obtained, but they were difficult to interpret. Two separate cluster analyses of individuals, based on their score profiles on social status variables, identified 37 and 47 clusters of white respondents, the largest cluster containing 13 people. (The cluster analyses were not done for blacks.) All in all, the present findings indicate that stratification is more complex than anticipated by current conceptualizations, previous research, and existing indexes. These results also point up the need for revising the theoretical formulations and using more appropriate measures of the salient dimensions.

show abstract

The Nature and Social Location of Everyday Conceptions of Class

Hiller

1975

Sociology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The study of everyday conceptions of social inequality and social class epitomizes some of the central issues of sociology, especially the relationship between consciousness and action. A broadly social-phenomenological/interactionist framework of analysis is put forward and previous studies reviewed and criticized (primarily on the grounds of superficiality and lack of validity). An intensive study, carried out in Australia on a stratified random sample, is described and some of the results summarized. It was found that few respondents' class schemes corresponded to traditional power/ownership dichotomies or prestige hierarchies and that the concept of a `money model' was too ambiguous to be useful in analysis: a wider variety of Class Scheme Types is proposed. Their social location was such that, while the distributions obtained reflected some of the general trends observed in earlier research, there were also some interesting divergences.

show abstract

Defining Prestige Rank in a Rural Community

Cited by 5 publications

References 0 publications

The Position-Reputation-Information (PRI) scale of individual prestige

The Position-Reputation-Information (PRI) scale of individual prestige

Dimensions of Social Stratification for Whites and Blacks: The Toledo Study

The Nature and Social Location of Everyday Conceptions of Class

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About