Frank E. Jones

Age at immigration and education: further explorations.

Although initial analyses of data, collected for the Canadian Mobility Study, reveal a weak relationship between age at immigration and educational attainment, inclusion of a measure of periodicity in educational attainment models reveals age at immigration to have an effect comparable to that of family size on educational attainment. Given the strong periodicity effect, when age at immigration is excluded from the analysis, it is argued that the status attainment model, which best accounts for the educational attainment of native-born Canadians, also accounts best for the educational attainment of the foreign-born.

Occupational Prestige in A ustralia and Canada: A Comparison and Validation of Some Occupational Scales

* Department of Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. † Department of Sociology, Research School of Social Sciences, the Australian National University, Canberra 2600. STUDIES of social stratification in Australia have been hampered by the absence of inclusive scales of occupational prestige. In 1965 Broom, Jones and Zubrzycki published as a supplement to Volume 1 (Number 2) of this Journal an occupational classification designed for analysis of census and survey data. Subsequently, that scale was shortened into sixteen occupational groups arranged as a prestige hierarchy. As Broom and Jones (1969: 651) put it: The occupational scale, in terms of which career mobility is analyzed, was derived in

Attitudes toward Immigrants in a Canadian Community

Approximately one in nine persons in Canada is a post-war immigrant. As a result, the public is very much interested in immigrants and immigration policy. The complexity of the reactions to the current situation prompted us to undertake research that would allow description and analysis of the attitudes of native Canadians toward immigrants.1

Social Origins in Four Professions: a Comparative Study

THE OBJECTIVE of this research was to compare accessibility, primarily in terms of social origin, to high ranking occupations and to identify changes in such accessibility within and between modern industrial societies. As the professions are invariably identified among the highest ranking occupations in terms of educational requirements, income and prestige, reflecting the high value placed on the services associated with them, there should be some