The Situs Dimension in Occupational Structure

Morris, Richard T.; Murphy, Raymond J.

doi:10.2307/2089433

Cited by 51 publications

(20 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Benoit-Smullyan 1944; Hatt 1950; Morris and Murphy 1959) of the society such as the bureaucracy, the military, the Church, the business world, etc., have not been adequately described either in their internal organization or in their interrelationships, it was necessary to develop some sort of operating model against which to assess the activities of the autodidact and the cabide. For this purpose, I found useful the model presented by Teixeira (1962, and conversations), although, at the time, I felt it did not correspond to what I knew of Brazil from my own previous field work.…”

Section: Ti1mentioning

confidence: 99%

Brazilian Careers and Social Structure: An Evolutionary Model and Case History*

Leeds¹

1964

American Anthropologist

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

IHE following paper I believe to be novel in its approach to dealing with T problems of cultural evolution in an empirical way. An evolutionary sequence of two ideal types of society is presented. Given the characteristics of each, models of the consequences of acculturation between the two are deduced and are asserted to comprise generic models of social structure in so-called "underdeveloped" societies. These models, formulated as hypotheses, indicate what sorts of structures one should expect to find in a specified field situation. I was particularly concerned with the personal links, critical to the total societal web of relationships of "underdeveloped" societies, which tie positions and social bodies together in situations where contractual links are not yet normative. Field material gathered in Brazil in the summer of 1962 is compared with the expected results. I n general, the hypotheses are confirmed. The social-structural data, synoptically reported here, were elicited by case studies of the careers of individuals moving through the social network.I n essence, the paper attempts, on one hand, to unify evolutionary, structural, and functional understandings in a single analysis, and, on the other, to deal at once with the microcosmic elements of structure and the societal macrocosm in a single frame of reference. Further, it attempts to indicate the nature of the ties between localities and national institutions which, hitherto, have not been adequately handled in the anthropological literature.The relevance of the hypotheses, the method, and the data to anthropological research in taxonomically similar societies, as well as some theoretical extensions, are discussed. I1I have for some time been looking for a typology of state-organized societies which would be based on a synoptic view of the function, total structure, and trajectory of the societies, rather than, as in certain previous typologies, on one or a few traits or symptoms (cf. Steward 1949; Bennett, ed.

show abstract

Section: Ti1mentioning

confidence: 99%

Brazilian Careers and Social Structure: An Evolutionary Model and Case History*

Leeds¹

1964

American Anthropologist

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…17 And, second-as more detailed examination of the plots of Figure 3 will reveal-several categories are juxtaposed whose members will tend to occupy similar situses (Morris and Murphy, 1959): for example, Skilled manual workers in construction with Plant and machine operatives and General labourers; or Managers and proprietors in services with, on the one hand, Catering workers and, on the other, and Buyers and sales representatives. In so far, then, as the third dimension, like the second, even if in a less readily interpretable way, does capture features of the occupational structure of friendship that derive primarily from the different opportunities for friendship that are offered by particular work environments, rather than from actual friendship choices expressing status considerations, we are further encouraged to believe that in our first dimension it is status per se that is primarily reflected.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Is There a Status Order in Contemporary British Society?: Evidence from the Occupational Structure of Friendship

Chan

Goldthorpe

2004

European Sociological Review

179

119

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper considers whether it is still possible to identify a status order in contemporary Britain. We analyse the occupational structure of friendship and present empirical results which show that there is one dimension of this structure that can be plausibly interpreted as reflecting a hierarchy of status. This status hierarchy is gender-neutral, and displays clear continuities with that depicted for the later nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries in historical and earlier sociological research. We further show that the correlation between social status and both income and education is only rather modest. As regards status and class, we find that while some classes show a rather high degree of status homogeneity; in other classes status stratification is quite extensive. Our results suggest that the Weberian distinction between social status and social class remains valid and fruitful. By keeping this distinction in social stratification research, a range of questions on the articulation of the class structure and the status order, on lifestyle and consumption, etc. are opened up.

show abstract

“…Una ocupación, por ejemplo, la de enfermera, podría hoy calificar para el situs 'salud' , pero también para el de 'administración'; u otros, como el de abogado en el situs de 'autoridad legal' , pero también en el de 'educación' , o el de recolector de basuras en 'mantenimiento' y también en 'salud' . Aun dejando estas ambigüedades de lado, hasta este punto de mi análisis, ni en el trabajo de Benoit-Smullyan (2) ni en los de Morris & Murphy (3,4,14) se advierte la intención de explicar mediante estos conceptos la esfera técnica de las ocupaciones, que es el uso que hacen Milos et al (1) en su argumento, abogando por un eventual situs de enfermería. El situs ocupacional es, ante todo, un término que captura un fenómeno de diferenciación social.…”

Section: Concepto De Situs Ocupacionalunclassified

“…Asimismo, si la utilidad dada al situs ocupacional fue la de predecir actitudes, comportamientos y estilos de vida en función de la ocupación de un individuo, con la consiguiente formación de subculturas (3,4,14), su aplicación es sustituida más tarde por el estudio de identidad de clases.…”

Section: Concepto De Situs Ocupacionalunclassified

El Concepto De Situs Ocupacional: Por Qué Esta Propuesta No Es Plausible: Una Explicación Sociológica

Ayala

2015

Cienc. enferm.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

RESUMENSeis años atrás apareció en este mismo medio una propuesta desde el interior de la enfermería académica, que sugería el desarrollo -y aun la preexistencia-de un situs ocupacional de enfermería. Siguiendo este concepto, la enfermería podría tomar distancia de la dominación médica e instalar un situs propio de enfermería, con las enfermeras en la cúspide de la estructura y otras ocupaciones asociadas en posiciones subalternas. Esta proposición, aunque muy prometedora, no logró despertar mayor discusión en las revistas del rubro. En parte, esta omisión puede ser resultado de que al tratarse de un concepto de limitado interés empírico, aun para la sociología de las profesiones (desde donde proviene), el situs ocupacional se ha enmohecido en el olvido. En el presente artículo tendré como objetivo el argumentar por qué los conceptos de situs y situs ocupacional, además de tener poca utilidad hoy en día, no son aplicables en la conformación de un 'situs de enfermería' La estratificación de categorías ocupacionales es un fenómeno mucho más complejo que meramente disponer lo que un grupo de profesiones 'debería' incluir o dejar fuera, por lo que sugiero su inoperatividad en la recomposición de estructuras profesionales. Representaciones contemporáneas sobre la estratificación social en el trabajo son mejor descritas a través del análisis del funcionamiento de credenciales académicas y, sobre todo, de las relaciones sistémicas a través de las cuales las profesiones tienen influencias mutuas, tanto en sus campos de práctica como en la construcción de narrativas profesionales.Palabras clave: Sociología de las profesiones, división del trabajo, profesiones en salud, fenómenos sociológicos, cuidado de enfermería. ABSTRACTSix years ago, there appeared in this same journal a proposal from the field of academic nursing, suggesting the development or even the pre-existence of an occupational situs of nursing. By using this concept, nursing could take distance from medical dominance and establish its own occupational situs, meaning that nurses would be on top of the structure and subordinate occupations on lower levels. Although promising, this proposal did not persuade other researchers into developing a debate in related journals. This omission may be partly due to the fact that, given its empirical limitations even for the sociology of professions (where the concept originates), the concept of occupational situs has fallen into oblivion. In this article I discuss why concepts such as situs and occupational situs, besides their limited usefulness today, are no longer applicable to the conformation of a 'nursing situs.' The stratification of occupational categories is much more complex than merely deciding what a group of professions should include or not include; I thus suggest the ineffectiveness of the concept in setting

show abstract

The Situs Dimension in Occupational Structure

Cited by 51 publications

References 0 publications

Brazilian Careers and Social Structure: An Evolutionary Model and Case History*

Brazilian Careers and Social Structure: An Evolutionary Model and Case History*

Is There a Status Order in Contemporary British Society?: Evidence from the Occupational Structure of Friendship

El Concepto De Situs Ocupacional: Por Qué Esta Propuesta No Es Plausible: Una Explicación Sociológica

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About