ABSTRACT

There is a plethora of measures of social class, and social stratification more widely. Occupation-based measures are most frequently used in social stratification research, although more recently the propriety of such approaches have been questioned. An emerging school of thought advocates the use of more culturally based measures as the most appropriate indicators of an individual’s social class position, an argument predominantly influenced by the work of Bourdieu. In this paper, we evaluate the benefits of a social class measure with a Bourdieusian theoretical foundation compared with an orthodox neo-Weberian occupation-based social class measure, the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC). First, we assess how closely we can replicate the Bourdieusian social class measure reported in Savage et al. ([2013]. A new model of social class: Findings from the BBC's Great British class survey experiment. Sociology). Second, we aim to compare and contrast the capitals, assets and resources based social class measure with the occupation-based National Statistics Socio-economic Classification, in an analysis of inequalities in school GCSE outcomes.

摘要

社会阶级的措施过多，社会分层也更加广泛​​。在社会分层研究中，最经常使用基于职业的措施，尽管最近有人质疑这种方法的适当性。新兴的思想流派主张使用更多基于文化的措施作为个人社会阶层地位的最适当指标，这一观点主要受布迪厄工作的影响。在本文中，我们评估了具有布尔迪厄斯理论基础的社会阶层测度与正统的新韦伯职业性社会阶层测度（国家统计社会经济分类（NS-SEC））相比的优势。首先，我们评估了可以复制Savage等人报告的布迪厄斯式社会阶层测度的接近程度。（[2013]。社会学）。其次，我们旨在比较基于资本，资产和资源的社会阶层测度与基于职业的《国家统计社会经济分类》，以分析学校GCSE成绩的不平等性。